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"The most powerful and ample resource for change in education is teachers' own expertise. Yet, teachers are regularly overstepped when it comes to leading school improvement. In the United States, less than one-fourth of teachers feel that they have great influence over school decisions and policies in seven different areas, as noted in the National Center for Educational Statistics' Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) database for 2003-04 reported by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) in Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the U.S. and Abroad."

Livescribe in the Classroom: The Pulse smartpen Revolutionizes Learning

"This site will acquaint you with strategies, ideas, and examples to help you craft online discussion questions. You can investigate how to use questions to achieve specific learning outcomes, guide the discussion process, and provide meaningful feedback to your students."

Hi and welcome to the Livescribe Education blog! We are excited to share and discuss ways to use the Livescribe Pulse smartpen to improve student learning, foster professional development, enable collaboration, etc. Look around, read the posts, make a comment and share, share, share.

Kristin's Prezi for PLN

"If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other." http://www.diigo.com/about Not only can you bookmark sites, but you can share them to specific people, groups, lists, and everyone in the world. You can highlight the pages and add sticky notes for yourself, your group or the public. You can easily capture and annotate images on the web to save to your virtual library. And that's not all... check out the about page and the video below to learn more about Diigo:

This is material I developed for the website I closed. For those interested in guitar, especially the physical/postural problems which should be conquered before learning music. Exercises and lessons available for free download. RA

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This article includes practical suggestions for designing discussion questions that promote higher-order thinking.