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Enlighten
December 2010 Issue
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| End of Year Livescribe K-12 Educator Special
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For a limited time, if you order at least 10 Livescribe smartpens, you'll receive a 4-pack of college rule notebooks for every smartpen you purchase!
Email us to see how you can get over $200 in free paper with every 10 smartpens you order!
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Win a Professional Development Grant From eInstruction
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Apply now to win a $3,500 professional development grant that provides the funds needed to instruct teachers on the best practices to effectively integrate technology to enhance the classroom experience.
This professional development grant can help improve student outcomes by implementing technology with research-based instructional strategies. Don't miss a chance to bring in-person professional development to your school or district.
The application process is simple; apply today.
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 Livescribe Smartpen Tip |
Check out how this daring librarian from Laurel, Maryland and member of the ISTE Board of Directors is using the Livescribe pen around her library to share awesome book reviews with students! ...more info
This is a great idea for personal book collections in your classroom also!
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Your eInstruction Representatives
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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.
Call 800.705.4049
Send us an email
Visit our website
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Greetings!
Winter is among us and things have definitely cooled off as the holiday season rapidly approaches. The holiday season is a great opportunity to spend time with friends and family and we hope that all of you have a wonderful holiday break.
We are excited and thankful for the new growth our company has experienced this year, and we want to sincerely thank you for a wonderful 2010. This year has been yet another crazy year with continued growth throughout the state, our staff and our product line.
Thank each and every one of you for your continued support, dedication to your kids and most of all the opportunity to work with you in helping your kids learn each and every day.
Sincerely, Dustin K. Frank
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 | Specials by eInstruction in Time for the Holidays
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As the year comes to a close, eInstruction has announced a couple of great promotions to help you get technology in the classroom to get the new year off to a great start! 
New 90-Day"Holiday Wishlist"Promotion
We're launching a new limited-time promotion for US customers just in time for the holidays - the 90-Day "Holiday Wishlist" Promotion! This promotion will be valid for the remainder of 2010 on any order that is placed AND shipped prior to 12/31/2010. You can now commit to purchasing eInstruction products now with subsequent payment due in 90 days instead of the standard 30 days from invoice date.
A firm Purchase Order or a commitment letter guaranteeing payment no later than 90 days after the invoice date must be received to participate in the program. Please reference this promotion on your purchase order or commitment letter to be granted the Net 90 terms.
0% Interest Municipal Lease
In connection with their Municipal Lease Financing program, eInstruction is launching a new limited-time, holiday offer for all K-12 public schools and stat e funded colleges. This promotion will be valid for the remainder of 2010 on any order that is placed AND shipped prior to 12/31/2010. Customers that choose to utilize the lease financing program will be offered a 0% interest lease. This is FREE MONEY for you! This is also a lease where you will own the goods at the end of the term (no residual payment they have to make).
Take advantage of these great offers to get hardware in place and get your teachers off to a great start in 2011!
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| Win a FREE Trip to FETC 2011 with Mimio!
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Have some free time over Christmas break? Already tired of the toe-numbing cold? Take advantage of the FETC 2011 Contest sponsored by Mimio and win a chance to attend FETC 2011 for FREE!  From now until January 7, 2011, you could win a trip to FETC 2011, the country's premier K-12 education technology conference, by sharing your best lessons with the MimioConnect community. Here's How to Participate - Head to Mimio Connect and join the group called FETC 2011 Contest.
- Post all of your best lessons to the group-and create new ones if you like. Make sure that your entries meet the criteria for quality interactive content (described below). Deadline for entries is January 7, 2011.
The Mimio Content Team will review all entries and choose the Grand Prize* winner plus five finalists. Winners will be announced on January 10, 2011. The Grand Prize winner will receive free conference registration, hotel accommodations, and airfare to and from the conference. Finalists will be sent a certificate suitable for framing. * U.S. teachers only. Quality Content Criteria This is your chance to prove you are the best at building Mimio lessons using proven teaching methodologies together with 21st century classroom technologies. In building your lesson, refer to this summary checklist. The Mimio Content Team will judge against the following criteria to choose a contest winner:
- Focus is on student interactivity, not teacher interactivity.
- The learning objective is student-focused.
- The learning objective is observable and measurable.
- If assessment is included, it must be appropriate to the learning objective.
- There are many opportunities for the student to practice the skills we are teaching them.
- The screen is uncluttered.
- If animation is used it has a purpose.
- The instruction is sequenced from easy to difficult and/or from few to many.
- The screen does not include irrelevant cues that give away the correct answer.
We look forward to seeing some Kansas and Nebraska entries show up in the group and we wish you good luck!
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| eInstruction Classroom Makeover Winners Are...
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The three classroom makeover prize packages are valued between $63,000 and $79,000 each, and include educational technology from eIns truction, American Ed Corp A+ Classroom, Calypso Systems, Incredibl e Kid, Knowledge Adventures, Math Forum @ Drexel, Nectar Foundation, Nettreker Search, Panasonic, Reading Plus and other educational technology companies.
Grades K-5 Winner: Tammy Dunbar's class from Lincoln Elementary in Manteca, California. Their video, "The Room Nine Kids: I Wanna Class Makeover," can be viewed at http://2010classroommakeover.shycast.com/submission/show/842.
Grades 6-8 Winner: Imarlys Cajigas' Science Class from WALKS Elementary School in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Their video, "When we have technology," can be viewed at http://2010classroommakeover.shycast.com/submission/show/645.
Grades 9-12 Winner: Robert Goetsch's Technology Class from Alief Taylor High School in Houston, Texas. Their video, "eInstruction is Forever," can be viewed at http://2010classroommakeover.shycast.com/submissi on/show/662.
Congratulations to the
winners and all the
participants in this
year's contest!
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| Livescribe Training Webinar To Be Held Thursday | The 2010 training and demonstration webinar schedules have come to an end, but we've got one more Livescribe initial training webinar left! Did we mention this webinar is totally FREE of charge and open to anyone? Don't wait...register now at the link below!
Livescribe Initial Training Webinar
December 16th, 9-10:30 am Register here
This webinar isn't intended to replace on-site staff development that digs deep into the why, where, and how of smartpens in education. However, this brief 1.5-hour overview will cover the basics of paper replay, creating pencasts, and how to share pencasts. It's a great prep to an on-site staff development!
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| Sue Glascoe Talks Livescribe in Math Education | Mesa Community College math instructor, Sue Glascoe, is continually working to find innovative ways to share math with her students. A frequent user of eInstruction clickers, Mobi, and her Livescribe smartpen, Sue was asked to share her thoughts on using the Livescribe smartpen as an educator. Listen to Sue below...
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Some eInstruction Products See End of Life
Unfortunately, we are sad to announce that tech support will be available for Quiz Show, PuzzleView, Quicktake, LessonView and BTCom products only through December 31, 2010.
If you are currently using any of these programs and require assistance, please contact the publisher directly.
If you are using any of the above products, please note that when using the current and future versions of eInstruction device manager, our student response systems will not work with these partner programs. When disconnected from previous versions of device manager, these programs will work with Gen1 IR/RF and Gen2 IR/RF only.
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