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Enlighten
September 2010 Issue
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Engaging Technologies
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 Livescribe Smartpen Tip | You've unpacked your Livescribe pens and would like to link each student or teacher with the serial number of their smartpen.
Is there an easy way to do this? Definitely!
Open the front cover of any Livescribe notebook and tap your smartpen on the "Software Version" button. 
The 11-letter combination following "PenID" is your pen's serial number.
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eInstruction Receiver Update Available | The
M1 and M2 eInstruction updates allow for CPS Pulse™ 140-character
texting capability in Essay Mode. However, some CPS Pulse™ sets being
used by eInstruction customers do not have the Generation 3 receiver or
latest firmware needed to use this feature.  If you have a Gen 2 receiver (pictured to the right), you are eligible for a free updated Gen 3 receiver. To activate this feature, you will need to download the latest firmware update and contact technical support to request the updated Generation 3 receiver at 888.333.4988 or techsupport@einstruction.com.
Both an instructional video and printable firmware update instructions are available on the website when you download the latest firmware update.
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Did You Know?
| eInstruction's products have been bundled with over 8,000 products from over 65 different publishers.
Are you starting the year with a new textbook? Be sure to search Title Track to see if ExamView is available with your textbook.
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Formative Assessment That Clicks with Students
| Do you have educators in your building or district that haven't used CPS clickers in their classrooms? Encourage them to read the article published in eSchool News, "Formative assessment that 'clicks' with students."
This article paints a clear picture of what clickers look like in the classroom and the benefits that students and teachers alike will reap from their appropriate use.
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| Engaging Technologies, is dedicated to providing only the very best
educational technologies to educators in Kansas and Nebraska. We promise to
provide only those products that we would use in our classrooms!
Please contact us with any questions regarding sales, training, or implementation, of our product lines in your classroom or organization.
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Greetings!
It's hard to believe that
school is already back in session. I recall as a kid that summer always
went too fast, but this year it seemed like we turned around and summer was
gone. With the end of summer comes an exciting new school year. Now
is the perfect time to hit the ground running with your technology completely
in place and ready to roll.
We've had a few changes at Engaging Technologies over the summer
as we continue to add additional consultants for the region in order to
strive towards improved support in your classrooms on a daily basis. Feel
free to contact us if we can be of any help as you kick off the new school
year. Sincerely, Dustin Frank
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Change is in the Air
| | Fallen off the radar? Missing in action? What term should we use for a long disappearance from your email mailbox such has been the case with our newsletter this summer? To feed your curiosity, no, we weren't off jetsetting around the country or eating bon-bons on the couch all summer and purposely neglecting to write a newsletter (although the jetsetting does sound tempting...). If not, then what HAVE we been doing? We've been running a few hands short, so we are building our team and have spent a lot of time this summer laying groundwork for growth in our company. Engaging Technologies is committed to providing the very best engaging technologies to our Kansas and Nebraska customers, so we've been busy adopting new product lines and getting more hands on deck to provide support and motivation across our states. We are looking forward to the school year ahead.
We appreciate your patience with us and apologize for our multi-month disappearance, but we're back on our monthly schedule now and will continue to bring you software update notices, helpful hints and tips, and special offers through our monthly newsletter. For a rundown on some of the things, you might have missed this summer...
We've hired a new consultant, David LaDay, who will be working with schools You can read more about David's background HERE.
Livescribe released a new smartpen, the Livescribe Echo. Check out its new look and information on how to perform the firmware update for your Livescribe Pulse HERE. - Andy Van Schaack, Senior Science Advisor at Livescribe and Professor at Vanderbilt University, released results of a study conducted at Vanderbilt on the ease of accessibility of information using a Livescribe smartpen and an Apple iPod. Read the fascinating results in the abstract and view graphs and pictures in the presentation.
- A new CPS White Paper, "What the Research Says: Using eInstruction's CPS to Support Effective Instruction," was added to our website. Click HERE to read the white paper.
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| Don't miss this special back to school offer! eInstruction
is offering a Back to School promotion for those users who have only
one piece of eInstruction's Collaborative Classroom Suite.
If you already own CPS IR or CPS Pulse clickers, see your offer HERE! If you already own a Mobi System, see your offer HERE!
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eInstruction Software Updates Available | | In an effort to provide you with the
best possible experience with eInstruction technology, eInstruction is
releasing an additional update to their Spring '10 Software Update released in
May. The new updates provide the best performance from eInstruction technology. 
Even if you previously downloaded an
earlier release of the CPS and Workspace software, we strongly recommend that
you download the latest versions. By updating to the latest software version,
the experience of using eInstruction in the classroom will continue to improve
for you and your students.
Please visit the following links to
download the latest software updates:
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| Livescribe's Fall Webinar Series Starting Soon
| | There is no replacement for actual hands-on staff development with new technology. Check out this video of a hands-on training with the Livescribe Smartpen, and you'll see the energy that is created in an onsite training that seems to be missing in the hushed whispers and long silences of a training webinar.
However, as a precursor to onsite staff development trainings and in an effort to give our customers additional awareness, training and resources, Livescribe is offering a new Fall webinar series. Two webinars will be held each month - one demo and one training - through December.
Make sure and join us for one of the two webinars that will be held this month! If
you are interested in attending this month and are unable to make the
date and time work for you, please contact us to see if the webinar can
be recorded for you. Register today to save your spot! 
All
sessions have a maximum of 25 log-ins, so registration at the links above is on
a first come, first serve basis. Registration will hold your spot in
the webinar and provide you log-in information.
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Free Training Webinars Offered by eInstruction | eInstruction is hosting a
series of webinars to provide you with continued support on their software and
technology, and you are invited to attend for free!
After reviewing the
schedule below and finding the topics that interest you, be sure to register for the webinar of your choice.
Each webinar is scheduled for 1 hour on the following dates at 3pm CST.
9/6 - Creating a lesson, a fast grade lesson, and adding PowerPoints in
CPS™
9/20 - Adding an ExamView® lesson to engage and review reports in CPS™
10/4 - Creating a Challenge in Team Activities of CPS™
10/18 - Preferences and Basic tools in Workspace™
11/8 - Intermediate and Advanced tools in Workspace™
11/22 - Engaging ExamView® questions with CPS™ through Workspace™
12/6 - Adding Content to the Workspace™ Gallery
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Livescribe Use Models in Special Education | In his article, Livescribe Use Models in Special Education, a followup to his review of the Livescribe Echo Smartpen, Chris Dawson of ZDNetsays,
"The
Echo has the potential to level the playing field in many ways, not
only for kids with specific disabilities, but for kids with learning
styles that don't match an instructional style or who simply need to
access and recall information in a non-traditional way."
Chris also hits on the parental component of smartpen use.
Read Chris's complete articleon the use of the Livescribe smartpen in special education and call to
schedule a hands-on demo of the Livescribe smartpen for your school
today!
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eInstruction Partners with SchoolNet | | eInstruction
has
partnered with SchoolNet to provide educators with the power of CPS
Pulse combined with SchoolNet Assess. For educators currently using
SchoolNet Assess, this means there's an easier way to obtain student
responses.
No longer do teachers have to wait for the computer lab or reserve the
shared
computer cart in order to administer tests and view immediate results
from
SchoolNet Assess.
SchoolNet
Assess tests can now be administered directly from the Assess Proctor Page
using eInstruction student response systems. The SchoolNet
solution requires the eInstruction device manager be installed and
opened before SchoolNet's Proctor page will display the work-flow options.
You can view
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Classroom Makeover Video Contest is Back Again!
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Gather the troops, lay out the plans, and get started creating your music video submission for the 2010 eInstruction Classroom Makeover Video Contest. A BIG winner in the 6th-8th grade category last year came from our area's very own Joy Schott and her 6th grade students at Burwell, Nebraska, and they won a cornucopia of prizes for their classroom!
Write your song, roll the camera, and submit your video before November 2nd to enter to win an interactive classroom worth up to $75,000! A panel of judges will select a grand-prize winner from three categories; grades K-5 (4-10 yrs old), grades 6-8 (10-14 yrs old), and grades 9-12 (14-18 yrs old). View a complete list of contest rules and prize sponsors here. Let's have another winner from Kansas or Nebraska this year and show them what the Midwest is made of - creative educators that love technology! As a bit of inspiration, take a peek at Burwell's winning video from last year to see what sort of class acts you'll be up against! See the Burwell video, "It's All Technology!" |
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
David Thornburg
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