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September 2011 

Greetings!  

 

With the first quarter of the year under our belts and fall upon us, we hope everyone had a great start to the school year.  We've been out and about visiting schools all over the region and have seen some tremendous integration of new tools everywhere.  As fall begins to set in, please don't hesitate to contact us know how we can be of help.   

 

Whether you are wanting to take your skill set a little further, have a quick question over a "how to," or simply just need a kick start to get up and running, we'd love to work with you or your staff on best integrating your tech tools.  As we continue to look for additional staff and build our team, please feel free to send us any referrals if you know someone who would serve as a great integrations specialist.    

 

Dustin Frank
Engaging Technologies      

 
Back to School Promos Ending Soon 
 

Don't miss out on our BIG Back to School promos that are ending soon!

  

Now through Friday, September 30th...   

   

Schedule a qualifying Mimio demo at your school, receive a FREE Mimio Teach Bar!  

Schedule a Mimio demonstration with up to 10 teachers and at least one administrator present and you'll earn your school a free Mimio Teach Bar (a $795 value)! Download PDF   

 

Receive a FREE Mobi View with your Spark or Pulse 24 or 32-pad purchase!  

Buy either a CPS Spark or CPS Pulse system and receive the most recent addition to the eInstruction mobile whiteboard family, the MobiView, which incorporates a new, larger touchscreen (a $449 value)! Download PDF  

 

FREE package of Sound Stickers with every 8 GB Educational Livescribe Bundle when you purchase at least 10 pens!   

Include Promo Code FALL011 on all POs containing 10 or more Education Smartpen bundles (8GB) and receive one pack of the new Livescribe Sound Stickers per smartpen purchased (a $24.95 value per pen)! Download PDF   

   

Promo good through November 18th...

 

Buy 4 MimioTeach, Get 1 FREE!    

Act now to equip your school or district with more interactive classrooms than you thought possible. Get 1 FREE MimioTeach™ system for every 4 that you purchase prior to November 18, 2011.  Request a quote!       

 
Company News
 

Upcoming Conferences   

 

We're getting in the full swing of fall conferences and we're out and about across Kansas and Nebraska.  Click on the link for more information and be sure and stop by and say "Hi," when you see us at:

 

Oct. 1 - Seneca, KS

SKIP (Special Kids, Informed Parents) Children's Resource Fair 

    

Oct. 3 - Topeka, KS   

KATM (KS Association of Teachers of Mathematics) 2011 Conference 

 

Oct. 6 - Kearney, NE

NCSA (NE Council for School Administrators) Technology Conference 

 

Nov. 1 - Wichita, KS

KSDE (KS State Dept. of Education) Annual Conference    

 

Oct. 17 - LaVista, NE   

NASB/NASA State Education Conference 

 

 

Building Progress Update  

Our New Building


We've completed the sale on our new building and are now
waiting on permits to make their way across the appropriate desks.  We've incorporated an incredible training room plan into our design that we are so excited to share with you, and we're anticipating build out to begin before the October newsletter goes out! 

   

Product Updates

   

New sound stickers from Livescribe are a hit!  

 

Teachers have been raving about the new sound stickers from Livescribe.  These re-recordable sound stickers are a fantastic way to easily leave directions at center stations, create talking word walls, bring books to life or add comprehension questions at the end of pages, or create a reusable talking worksheet.   

 Livescribe Sound Stickers

Tim Fahlberg, one of our very talented colleagues, created some videos of just exactly how these nifty sound stickers work.   Check out these sound sticker videos in Tim's playlist and don't miss out on the back to school promo ending on Friday, September 30th - free sound stickers with every pen you order if you order over 10 Livescribe smartpens (that's a $24.95 value for every pen that you order!)

 

In addition, feel free to check out this Sound Stickers Getting Started Guide, complete with an excerpt of Sound Sticker ideas from the Livescribe Education Idea Book!   

 

 

The eInstruction Video Makeover Contest is back!     

   

einstruction Video Makeover contest  

Create a music video with your class showing the benefits of a technology-driven classroom. You can create a parody of an existing song or come up with something all your own. Submit your video and you could win an interactive classroom makeover worth over $75,000! 

 

Entries must be submitted by noon on October 25th!  With a month to go, there's only two entries in, so give it a shot!  

You might remember that Nebraska's very own Burwell schools won this contest in their division two years ago and a huge celebration was held to celebrate their big win and free classroom technology!  Let's do it again in Kansas and Nebraska and pull a winner from our creative teachers and students that are using interactive technology in their classrooms.

  

   

KS & NE educators take advantage of Livescribe grants and receive 136 FREE Livescribe smartpens 

Livescribe Echo  

We advertised 1500 available Ambassador grants last month in our newsletter that provided a free refurbished Livescribe smartpen to educators who stepped up to be Livescribe Ambassadors.    

  

We are excited to say that KS and Nebraska definitely represented and claimed 136 of those available pens, meaning that students in 136 classrooms across Kansas and Nebraska will hopefully see their teacher implementing a tool that can benefit them both!  

 

 

 

Find great Fall whiteboard lessons on Mimio Connect
MimioConnect
MimioConnect is an online community where
teachers can share valuable resources, including compatible Mimio whiteboard lessons.  By simply typing in Fall in the search field, you'll come up with these neat fall activities.

 

Harvest Fall Matching Game

 

Fall Gallery Pack

 

Fall Multiplication Arrays

 

Addition Leaves Word Problems 




Grants & Funding    

  

Grant Wrangler® Featured K-12 Grants

 

If you're lookin
g for funding, don't forget to check out Grant Wrangler®.  Grant Wrangler® is a free grant listing service offered by Nimble Press™. They make it easier for educators, school libraries, and parents to find school funding by compiling a list of grants for teachers, school grants, and money for arts, history, mathematics, science, technology, literacy, and more...more info  

   

 

eInstruction $3500 Professional Development Grant 

 

eInstruction is offering $3,500 EdTech Conferenceto K-12 schools and districts that host an educational technology conference, a 1-2 day event that offers sessions on instructional technology tools to help educators integrate technology into their curriculum.  

 

The conferences will be geared towards those interested in enhancing the teaching and learning of mathematics, science, and other subject areas through the use of interactive technology solutions. In addition to the grant, eInstruction will offer every presenter free loaner technology, a host guide, and a toolkit...more info 



Upcoming Training Opportunities    

 

FREE eInstruction Training Seminars  

 

October 3rd, eInstruction will be hosting a webinar at 3:00 pm CDT on Using CPS For the First Time. Be sure and check this link for additional upcoming October webinars!

 

 

Mimio Quick Learn Schedule  

 

These are still some of the very best trainings around.  Mimio Quick Learns have a specific training goal that is delivered within an hour, and are definitely some of the most engaging web trainings we have attended.  

 

View the schedule and make sure and sign up today for the many different dates and times offered.

 

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