July 2012

• Use it all the time and give absent kids a link to notes from class
• New math to show parents
• Math word wall
• Writing ideas
• Maps
• Reading blogs
• Basic word lists
• Primary source analysis with sticky notes
• Special needs dyslexic student - taking notes
• Vocabulary tree words - sticky notes move around for prefix and suffix development
• Sentence diagramming pencast and development (old school but it works)
• Recordable sub plans for playing under doc camera
• History wall with historical characters talking
• Geography mapping
• Innovative ideas for sharing
• Design space and feedback
• English story telling
• Use it to record student speeches
• Capture visiting speakers in classes and share with the community
• During a class trip create a blog and have the kids draw and story tell in teams
• Capture a lesson to share with parents so they reinforce the lesson
• Embed the files in the class schoology page
• Flip Classroom for Math
• Store lessons for homebound or absent students
• Recorded PD opportunities
• Recorded essay assessment
• Aide for ADHD students to go back and listen to lesson
• Give each group of students a pen and have them explain their thinking...great assessment
• Flip your learning
• Write out your lesson first with your smartpen and post later
• Communicate with parents! I demo new strategies with the pen and post them on my blog
• Students who struggle with writing can do some wring with more speaking
• Helps my English language learners to listen to themselves after they’ve finished. They often are motivated to re-record and improve their explanations.
• Math problem walk through as student
• Math problem walk through as teacher
• Post notes for class in bilingual inclusion setting
• For online classes answer quick student questions and post them online
• For lecture classes get a volunteer student to take notes
• Using smartpens with regular ed courses with teacher candidates. During methods courses use the smartpen during gallery walks
• I use my smartpen for note taking in my department meetings (I'm dyslexic)
• Brought my smartpen into my son's preschool for a station during sensory learning week. Preschoolers loved using the pen to promote and encourage literacy.
• In a science method course we used smartpen as part of an interactive science experiment for our science fair
• Used for students that are absent
• Used for teachers that are absent at Professional Learning Communities and also at staff meetings
• Used to provide additional modeling for our English language learners
• Used by students to create math tutorials for other students
• Used by teachers to record and review their lessons as part of their own professional growth
• Right now use it at conferences and professional development
• Translation wall
• Alphabet in different languages
• Body parts and definitions
• Messages
• Pencast to share with parents to show problem solutions for algebra problems
• Using for assessment to capture thinking process and strategy
• Share notes with Google docs and Evernote       daily class scribe
• Creating pdfs of notes to share

June 2012

• Take the PowerPoint from the teacher and print it on Livescribe paper.  Staple the sheets together.  Number the slides with a large black marker in one corner.  Use a green marker to circle the record button on sheet one.  Use a red marker to circle the stop button on the last sheet.  The student we are using this with is visually impaired and cannot take notes in class.  When the teacher begins he hits record and then traces the number 1.  When she moves to the next slide he traces that number all the way to the end.  When she finishes he hits stop.  Now he can listen to the instruction around each PowerPoint slide.
• Put Sound Stickers on notecards for a presentation speech.  Student practices and records their voice and uses these to present as he cannot speak in front of others.
• Make review sheets in a science class studying plants to increase the vocabulary of special education students.
• Create talking quizzes that a student can take without a para-professional sitting next to them or having to leave the classroom to have it read to them.
• Adding talking points to a US News and World Report magazine so that a student can have the story read to them, paragraph by paragraph.

May 2012

• I would use it to review handwriting and letter formation.  I could watch the student’s pencasts after they had completed the assignments
• Share team meeting notes with my team members and supervisors.
• Monitor progress of students in other schools who are working on handwriting, note taking etc.
• Peer tutor notes for students who cannot write.  Peer takes notes and then both students have the notes and audio.
• Daily Tracker.  Print the trackers on the Livescribe dot paper and then have teachers record notes and progress.
• I have handed the pen over to a more advanced student in the room or to my para educator during class notes.  I then post them to my wiki site so the students can access them if they need a review.
• I have several special needs students in my classroom and when a test needs to be read to several students and I only have one para, I use the dots and the pen to make a verbal command for each question.
• Each month one of our staff members attends the school board meeting.  We used to take notes and then everyone else had to try to decipher the notes, but now we just send the pen.  We then have an audio record of the board meeting.
• If I have a student in In-School Suspension, I send the pen to the office with them with any instructions that I may have for them.  I also show them how to record any questions they may have on the assignment while they are doing it.
• When doing interviews for social studies class, students can take notes, but also record the interviews to be more precise.

March 2012

• I use Livescribe Pencasts embedded in PDFs to annotate an eBook version of our textbook in my Distance Education courses.
• I use Livescribe Pencasts embedded PDFs to deconstruct former students' papers for my online students.
• I use the Livescribe smartpen and pencasts in my online Children's Literature and Fairy Tale courses. Since most of students are current or future educators, they have seen the usefulness of such a tool and have purchased smartpens for use in their own classes.
• In my composition class, I feature the Livescribe smartpen as one of the best ways for students to separate the writing and editing phases of their writing. Using the smartpen while writing a draft eliminates the student's tendency to edit while they write (a common practice while typing with word processors). When the students realize they can transfer their draft via the third-party application, MyScript for Livescribe, they find writing a draft by hand works more efficiently.
• As chair of the University Code Committee, I used the Livescribe smartpen to not only take notes on lengthy documents, but also capture all the audio from the meetings. At the end of the meeting, I send the written notes as a PDF and send the audio file to the respective chairs of the departments throughout the University.

February 2012

• I have students record lectures on the Livescribe smartpen which I then post to our school Moodle site for students that have missed class or for those that want to hear the lecture again.
• I recorded lectures and posted them to the website to experiment with a "flipped" classroom where students’ "homework" is to listen to the lecture and then we work problems during class time where I can assist them.
• I made a learning center with vocabulary words on flashcards with Sound Stickers recording information about the word.
• I use the Livescribe smartpen to take notes during science team meetings so we can go back if there is ever a question about an action that was decided upon.
• I used Sound Stickers to make a test for a student that needed his tests read to him. He can use the headphones and take the test in the room so that I can answer any questions he has. I used the Sound Stickers on a plain answer sheet so that I can reuse for other tests.
• Keep a running audio record of cold reads or one minute fluency reads to use to monitor progress and share reading skills with their homeroom teacher or new reading group teacher.
• General sub plan pencasts - so each time a substitute comes into my room they can hear about all the little things that are too numerous to put into words.
• Interactive bulletin board pencasts - put up for parent teacher conferences so the parent can hear the students report instead of just look at it.
• Speech referrals - sample pencast given to our speech pathologists to speed up the process of looking at speech errors                .
• Guided independent center - pencast of an activity with my own voice and directions how I want them for the kids to work on during center time.
• I have a student who has problems with fluency and decoding.  He never seems to understand that he has made a mistake. I started recording him when he does his one minute fluency checks.  After he has read I let him listen to himself and his scores have improved drastically.
• Inservice Meetings -- So much information is given and I can't get it all written down so I record it and make anecdotal notes.  It is much easier and I can avoid any confusion.
• If I were teaching primary kids you can do onset and rime and work with word families. Students can identify if the onset and rime or if the sounds they combine with word families are real words.
• I have an ELMO projector in my classroom and the students are able to see the notes as I take them and I can play them back from my computer for review groups of struggling students.
• Talking Word Wall for ESL students.  Put dots next to the word wall and picture cards.  Students can tap on it with the pen and hear the word read to them.
• Use the smartpen to give sound to the word wall so that the children are able to click on any word that they have trouble remembering and they will hear it pronounced.  The children love it when you let different children record the different words so they all get to hear their voices.
• Use the smartpen to give audio to leveled readers so that the children can listen to them to help them with their reading fluency.  It helps to build confidence in lower readers.
• Use the smartpen to have the children record facts about animals.  The children can make a poster and then add the audio to allow others to click on their dots and hear what they discovered about the different animals.
• Use the smartpen to record a lesson to show the steps in solving a math problem.  When the children get stuck, they can click on the problem and have the lesson retaught to them while the teacher is helping other students.
• Use the smartpen to record instructions for centers.  When the children forget what to do, they can click on the instructions to be reminded of what the teacher wanted them to do and they do not have to go ask the teacher.
• "Flipped” the classroom - Livescribe lecture notes/audio assigned as homework.             
• Project criteria for students include using my Livescribe smartpen to make notes with audio over the assigned topic; then uploaded to share with all classes.
• My Livescribe notes ask questions that the students must complete.
• Student's print class lecture notes and bring them to class for highlighting and this becomes the test review.
• Absent students go directly to Livescribe notes; if printer does not work then students must hand copy the notes.

• Our staff is working on building a library of standardized test prep pencasts.  These pencasts, created by Math and LA teachers, will be used by homeroom teachers during the weeks leading up to standardized testing. 
• I will use the smartpen in the science center to help the students label parts of the body and parts of the tree.
• Smartpen Student Pilot Group. 5 6th grade students with varying processing deficits use the smartpen in content classes to assist overcoming deficits to access grade level curriculum.
• Faculty meetings are recorded using a smartpen and emailed to all that are in attendance and those that are not. Faculty does not have to worry about taking notes and can pay attention to what is being said or participate in the discussion. It has also cut down on the "Can you repeat that" statements.
• At a time when too many children are left behind, the Livescribe Echo smartpen has come to the rescue.  For example, in our school district, we have one child who has been riddled with infections, colds, and most recently pneumonia.  Many teachers have been struggling to keep up with keeping him up to date and not allowing him to fall behind.  For example in math class, we have been able to educate him from the comfort and care of his own home.  We can track progress and how many times he has viewed the material so when he returns he isn't overwhelmed with all the work he has to make up.  This is just one example of how Livescribe has helped absent students not get left behind. 
• Have students record "Brief Constructed Response Items" rather than trying to write out paragraphs of math explanations. 
• Child development students will be journaling their week-long experience with the RealityWorks infant simulators. This journaling activity will be the basis of the essay that is required upon completion of the week simulation period.
• I've used the Livescribe smartpen to create assessment review pencasts.  Students access the notes (along with review games) from our wikispaces to prepare for assessments.  Parents are thrilled with this resource.
• I will use the smartpen in literacy by turning books into audiobooks.
• Smartpen use by student with visual motor integration deficit, records lessons in class to assist with content retention and reteaching!
• All class notes are written using a smartpen and embedded in our class website. Students review the notes at home at their own speed (Flipped Classroom Model)
• When it comes to book reports, I have heard all kinds of complaints and groans from children.  This is especially true when it comes to children who have reading, sensory, and processing disabilities.  I have leveraged the Livescribe desktop software and smartpen to create fun, interactive book reports that help increase comprehension for students with different abilities and limitations. For example, I utilized an inflatable die with different questions on it.  The student gets to roll the die and then answer the question orally while I scribe the student’s answer using the smartpen.  According to one student’s mother, “It is a very innovative tool that can be used to make him want to write and be conscious of his pronunciation of words which directly correlates with his speech.  To me it incorporates his interest in Language Arts and Speech which is Ian’s biggest challenge.”  I have also expanded the interactive Echo book report to quizzes and tests to provide parents with a unique perspective into how their child learns, thinks, and performs on tests. 
• Use sound stickers in a book to have older students practice reading fluency and expression to give to younger students to "read" a book. 
• Students have created "posters" using Livescribe smartpens illustrating several camera techniques such as head-room, look-room, and lead-room.
• Our state teachers of the year, from 24 counties in MD, are sharing ideas about how they use Livescribe smartpens in their classrooms.  We've created an Edmodo website to collaborate.
• I will use the smartpen for the students to draw pictures of organisms that they have been learning about and talk about some of the needs and characteristics of the organism. This can be a pre or post assessment tool.
• Smartpen use by student with visual and auditory processing deficits to assist with note-taking and content retention. He records all his lessons at school and listens at home to prep for quizzes and tests
• Tests are given with smartpens to capture students work as it happens. This allows the teacher to pinpoint where students are making errors.
• Livescribe technology has the ability to go from the bus to the special arts classroom. Sometimes the best teaching can be accompanied through fun activities in the weirdest of situations.  In a recent creation, I had a very talented art student draw his own mind’s creation and a Yoshi and Super Mario for me.  In the special arts classroom students will be able to create virtual comics that speak to the reader or record melodic music during a beautiful portrait.  Either way, the beauty of art will be in the eyes and ears of the beholder...
• "So often students want to tell me so much (non-school related) information in the mornings.  A journal to the teacher could be set up in the back of the room, so the students could ""tell"" me the information, and I could continue with the morning routine.  The same could be used for conflict resolution.  Students can use the journal to tell their side of the story."
• Video production students have used Livescribe smartpens to develop and share their original scripts with one another by posting these documents in our Moodle classroom.
• I'm working on using the Livescribe to record data gathered from science investigations.  Students who were absent during the lab can review, graph, and analyze data using the pencast.
• I will use the smartpen on poem and nursery rhyme charts so that the students can hear it being read and follow the text with a pointer.
• Smartpen use by student with Executive Functioning Disorder and anxiety. The 3 ring notebook and smartpen use help him remain organized with his materials and the smartpen note taking helps reduce his anxiety with note taking.
• After students take a math test, the teacher posts the test along with his work to the test, using a Smartpen, so students can watch how the problems were worked out.
• Who would’ve thought that a surf instructor would post notes to his students who attend Sam Hammer’s Billabong Camp?  I would often compliment my surf instruction with virtual lessons that campers could check out and study before or after coming to camp.  In terms of stretches, board definitions, technique, and advice the Echo Smartpen brought the World Wide Web to Brown Ave., Lavallette.  A place where pro-surfers, like Billabong’s Sam Hammer, can inspire and teach children anywhere in the world.
• Non-School Idea - Have kids answer the same questions every year on their birthday (such as "what do you want to be when you grow up?” etc.).  Record their answers to see the change in answers, voice, and handwriting each year!
• Video production students have used Livescribe smartpens to storyboard and record preproduction notes to share with their classmates through the class Moodle site.
• Another idea I've thought of, but not yet tried, is to record lessons that my substitutes can use in my absence. 
• I will use it to take notes at meetings and conferences and then be able to share the notes and new ideas with fellow team-mates.
• Student with ADHD uses a smartpen for note taking in primary content classes. Because the student has to pay attention to when to record and stop recording, he attentiveness in class has greatly improved.
• Students use the smartpen to record Math Journals that they can post when they work on group projects
• Soldiers who receive a letter while abroad are grateful for the respectful letters they receive while in combat.  It’s those written that help drive soldiers to help protect our country and freedoms.  One student recently wrote a letter to a soldier with the Livescribe pen and is currently awaiting a reply.  Except now the letters have voices and the soldier will be able to hear the thoughts and feelings that are attached with the letter.  It’s this emotion and sound that will help our students honor the soldiers that protect this amazing country. 
• Non-School Idea - Use sound stickers on my grandmother's recipe cards.  Have my dad record the directions including all of the "extras" that my grandmother did, but she did not write down.   
• Video Production ll students have created an auditory word wall using newly learned video vocabulary for Video Production l students.

• Students will record animal sounds and/or names in English or Spanish on sound stickers that will be on bingo cards, flash cards, memory game cards, etc.  Then other students will be able to match not only have the pictures and words as clues, but also the animal sound.
• Use the smartpens with students to prepare them for their end-of-year state tests.
• Decoding Reading Program - Students check their accuracy using Livescribe smartpens; can be used for guided and independent practice.  Great scaffolding tool.
• Interview teachers on how they got started in their career and post those on the web.
• On a 'The Learning Garden' themed bulletin board (or use any theme you would like as long as you can include small 'objects' with the students' names on them) I placed water drops with a Sound Sticker and the student's name. When the student taps the sticker, they receive a personal greeting from me and one part of a puzzle activity that combined as a class will be our first community building activity of the school year.
• Journal writing
• I markup PowerPoint Presentations using the Stylus and record audio. The marked up presentation can be saved and the audio file played separately. The presenter only needs to manually advance the slide show and they appear as though they are one file! Works great!
• "Vocabulary Practice.  I posted a pencast and linked it to my class website.  This pencast had the unit vocabulary words.  I wrote the words and spoke the definitions.  They were able study at home using the pencast like flash cards.
• Also worked with the Spanish teacher who is creating a pencast of Unit vocabulary words that she will post and have the students practice at home.  Fabulous way to see and hear the words."
• Create short lessons using the smartpen and embed them into a Google website for students to do outside of class.  This helps with the "flipped" classroom model.
• Make cards with a written definition of a vocabulary word.   Use a Sound Sticker to say the word.      The student has to identify the word and then press the sound sticker to see if it is correct.
• Use sticky notes to make a review wall in science class.  Students and teachers make a large bulletin board sized diagram of an atom, a biological system, or any other system using an old school transparency and overhead projector.  Students use the smartpens to label the parts and functions of the system.  Students who are done working use a smartpen and headphones to review and test themselves quietly at the review wall.
• I have used my smartpen to help students understand how to write a paragraph. We use a "hand paragraph" model to get students to understand the structure of a 5-sentence paragraph. We draw a hand and they tell me their sentences as they draw lines on the fingers. This separates the tasks of creating sentences from actually writing them, which allows students to focus more on grammar, spelling and punctuation while dictating to themselves.
• Create mathcasts that can be viewed on a classroom webpage to help students AND parents with math algorithms and solving homework problems.
• Use the smartpen to assist students in tracking their own goals and objectives.
• I will use my 3 subject Livescribe notebook to keep anecdotal notes on my students.  Then when I connect my smartpen to my computer I can organize the notes by child, proof read them, and compile them all together to send home to the parents.  I really want to send home more positive communication about students, and I think this will help me achieve that goal.
• Use the smartpens with ESL students.
• Writing process - students complete the writing process using Livescribe smartpen...students are 'walked' through the process; students can clarify their writing by recording thoughts and questions.
• Storyboard a new online workshop and record the audio for the workshop at the same time.
• Place 'worksheets'/templates in a sheet protector. Add a Sound Sticker with directions explaining to the student what they are to do using dry erase markers so the activity can be reused by other students.
• Math facts and reinforcement
• I have our ESL Teacher use the smartpen and the Sound Stickers to help our K-5 students learn to identify objects and also to help with pronunciation of words for those with limited English skills.
• Posted a class lesson using a pencast on the class website.  It showed the progression of learning about transversals and angles.  The pencast allowed me to walk the student through the steps.  It is much easier for me to demonstrate than to write directions step by step.
• Answer student homework problems by sending them a pencast, rather than typing out the solution for them (students at the college level generally email me questions, rather than come to my office hours).
• Make a pencast for a student who was absent and may need some explanation. Email as a PDF.
• Teachers use the smartpen to draw their own diagrams.  They save the image only and then insert those images right into their tests.  Teachers don't have to settle for images they find online.  They create diagram images that are exactly what they want and because the images they are their own they are copyright friendly.
• The smartpen can be used to provide vocabulary review. I can use clip art taped/glued to the dot paper to illustrate vocabulary and record the words on a shape/dot/star next to the picture. Students can quiz themselves. It would be a self-correcting exercise, giving immediate feedback.
• Recording spoken test or quiz questions for students with special needs.  Students can use earbuds to listen without disturbing others in class.
• Use the smartpen to allow students to listen to teacher generated test so that they aren't so embarrassed by asking the teacher to read them the problem.
• I will use Sound Stickers to audio activate as many books in my library as possible.  My students are all economically disadvantaged and there are many studies that show they start school with a vocabulary deficiency compared to students of middle and upper class families.  Therefore I need a way to pour MORE words into their brains than I can physically speak in a day!  I plan to expose them to these words through my Livescribe library!  **My students are also ELLs (English Language Learners).  They need lots of exposure to well-pronounced English words.
• Use the smartpens in small group settings or learning centers.
• Work stations - students use Livescribe smartpens to guide them through the directions; students can use the Livescribe smartpens to record their thoughts and questions.
• Capture a brainstorming session so that you can go back and review what was said to understand the context of the notes taken.
• Add a Sound Sticker to each page of a picture book.  Each page has a different student recording the text. Besides being a wonderful tool to assess fluency, the book can be shared with a class in a younger grade.
• Peer tutoring and reinforcement
• Have students to take their notes while using the text book on sticky notes! They can even record their thought or questions in case they forget them later. The sticky notes then become a searchable way to find things in the text that they need help with, especially if they record the page and paragraph in the hardbound text!
• I created a lesson and posted it to pencast.  Instead of repeating the same lesson 6 times that day, I played the pencast.  Students were attentive and fascinated.
• Create an interactive test key or worksheet solution by embedding the original text (of the test or the worksheet) into the pencast PDF as a watermark!  This way students can see the original questions and hear and see the solutions worked out.
• Share pencasts of the student solving a math problem and explain their thinking and share at parent conferences.
• A teacher makes a spelling pretest station in a K-5 classroom.  Sticky notes read the spelling word.  Students try to spell it and then check their work by clicking on the sticky note with the answer on it (the word spelled out by the teacher).
• A cloze activity or outline skeleton that follows a lecture can be written with the smartpen while it is on but not recording. Students can listen to the lecture recorded on the smartpen and listen for key vocabulary that they would then add to the pencast. The teacher could review the pencast later to see where the students need additional help.
• Have students record their own solutions to math problems so that teachers can hear them "think aloud" while they work through the problem step by step.
• Use the smartpen to generated questions. I work in an urban school so students are not always able to come to coach class. So I could use the pencast to answer questions and sent a response to the students email address! That way they don't have to use YouTube or some other website to get an answer to a problem that is specifically from the textbook.
• Mail Center ideas:  During centers I have students write each other letters and then put them in a make shift mailbox in our classroom.  At the end of the day I get to play Mailman and deliver the mail before they go home.  I could create a piece of construction paper and put each student’s name and pictures on it by the mail center.  Then students could record audio stickers with compliments and leave them on that students "Compliment Catcher" page.  It would be a great social studies/community building project and I know they would love to hear the compliments their peers want to leave for them.
• Use the smartpens to create pencasts.
• Active reading strategies - using a Livescribe smartpen, students will develop reading skills while recording their thoughts while reading.
• Save time by taking field notes that can then be easily changed to text.
• Add a Sound Sticker to each page of a WORDLESS picture book.  On the first page, the first student records the 'text'. Subsequent students must listen to the previous pages before recording the 'text' for their page.  Again, can be shared out with a class in a younger grade.
• Studying for test /individualized testing
• Record the audio of any staff meeting and then draft the text later. When making a pencast the correct audio can be associated with whatever text you desire. Therefore the text does not have to match the audio but can be an outline or guide to the audio that can be jumped back and forth in!
• Worked with the Spanish teacher to label the objects in her room so students can walk around the room and test themselves on the proper word and pronunciation of the objects.
• Have one student each day take notes for the class using the Livescribe smartpen and then upload the notes to the class website calendar so ALL students can benefit from the animated/with sound notes, especially if they missed class that day.
• Sometimes, teachers and/or parents have a difficult time understanding the different ways to solve a problem - other than the traditional algorithm. Make pencast showing - multiplication - partial products,    etc...  and post them on your wiki or web page as a resource.
• A Spanish teacher uses a notebook page to deliver a practical exam.  The teacher writes the number one and then speaks the question on the exam page.  Each student has their own Livescribe page printed from a printer.  The student goes out into the hall and writes the words "answer number 1", then speaks his response.  Oral exams no longer have to occur with the teacher outside of the classroom as the students take turns with the Livescribe sitting outside and taking the exam alone.  The teacher can grade each test later.
• Younger students or students who have difficulty remembering stories they have told before can use the smartpen to illustrate stories that have a beginning, middle and end. The teacher draws a storyboard on the paper, and the student illustrates the story while telling it. Any details are drawn in as well, providing the student afterward with a pencast they can use to write a well-developed story.
• Create a talking globe or map with recorded Sound Stickers. Students hear the correct pronunciation of the state or country, and any other info the teacher wishes to record.
• I could have the students write out their answers and use it to take their progress or use it to substantiate the need for more or less intervention.
• "Morning Message!  I got an idea from a scholastic instructor magazine to use an old ""Guess Who"" came and replace the cartoon pictures with my students' pictures.  Then play the game to learn more about each one of them in my class.  I would like to also add a Sound Sticker to the picture where the student gives clues about who they are.  These clues could be language arts geared like: ""My name starts with the letter 'G' which makes the /g/ sound,""; ""My name has 5 letters, and the last one is 'E',""; ""Who am I?""; ""Giselle!"" OR it there could be Math geared clues like: ""I am older than 5 but younger than 7.  How old am I?""; ""I have 1 orange cat and 1 white cat.  How many cats do I have? TWO!"" "
• Students use smartpens of record their thinking process when explaining, solving, answering questions. Also have students use the smartpens to review or for remediation.
• Test taking and study skills - reasoning and brain processing analysis- students use Livescribe smartpens to record their thoughts and confusion during study sessions and test taking sessions.
• Create a scavenger hunt that students need to find sounds and record them as well as take notes on their properties.
• "Spelling/Vocabulary Word Work Learning Center - Using Sound Stickers (can you tell I'm CRAZY about the Sound Stickers? Absolutely LOVE them!), 10 stickers per page so that I can level and differentiate the activity for students I record the word, use it in a sentence, then repeat the word. Students write the words on a separate sheet of paper. There is a separate sheet so they can self-check once they are done.  (This is also a great activity for students who might have been absent when a teacher gives a spelling/vocabulary assessment.)"
• "Reinforcements of facts for students who need oral, kinesthetic and tactile. Allows students to self-pace and check."
• I have my students make up whole-page flash cards, the paper contains the question, the linked audio contains the spoken answer. The student can practice with the flash cards and tap on anything they have trouble remembering!
• Students will be recording their own pencasts about the topics in class.  This will require them to be able to verbally summarize the math lesson for that day.  We will post it to the class website.  They are very excited about recording and hearing their friends voices recorded.
• For a student who requires a reader for their test (we have a testing center for that), take the typed test and then record each question onto a Sound Sticker.   While the student is taking the test, a paid reader will not be needed; the student can hit the dot on the page to re-read the question to them as many times as they need the question to be read.
• Share student pencasts with the whole class on different ways to solve a problem -  then have the students identify which  CCSFMP were demonstrated:     -    #1.  Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them,    #2    Reason abstractly and quantitatively, #3 Construct viable arguments,   #4   Model with mathematics,   #5 Use appropriate tools strategically,  #6  Attend to precision,   #7  Look for and make use of structure,  #8  Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. This will allow students to develop an understanding of the SFMP and how they are applying them.
• The teacher records lab instructions while embedding instructional information in a pencast.  Those instructions are uploaded to Livescribe.  Students pull up a link to the day’s lab.  They listen to lab procedures and teacher explanations.  Students can pause and play from a netbook computer at their lab station as they work.  If they get confused they rewind the pencast.  Students record their data from lab experiment to share with the class in the class Livescribe lab notebook.
• One teacher told me she never has time between classes to remember disciplinary issues or commendations. She could use the smartpen to track events during her classes. As she writes the date and student's name, she could record the information she needs to access later and then return to the audio file to formally record the information.
• Teacher provides written and audio feedback on a student's written work or test.  Helpful for students AND their parents.
• It's a great way to track the things that you leave out of a lesson.
• Use pencasts to demonstrate math skills to students. Assess students skills by having them create their own pencasts as they solve equations, determine the least common multiple of a set of non-zero whole numbers, etc. It's a great way to get them to "talk" through mathematical processes.
• Have students draw and tell stories. Have upper elementary/middle school students create stories with an element of surprise. As students share their stories verbally, they draw items mentioned throughout the story. By the end of the story, the items come together to divulge the picture of a central character in the story. A great resource for this is Draw-And-Tell by Richard Thompson.
• Create an online resource notebook for students to refer to as they work through algebra concepts.
• Create a cartoon character to feature on your class website. Have the character "share" homework plans and weekly announcements.
• Have students create $2 summaries of the day's lesson using sticky notes or stickers and index cards. Each word is worth 5 cents. Students write their summary of the lesson on an index card or sticky note while recording their narrative. Post on the door or in another area of the classroom for others to review. (Be sure to leave a pen nearby!)