Fox News: Livescribe smartpens in the classroom
Fox turned out for our community/media event at Gulf Coast High School in Collier County Florida and had this to day on the evening news…
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Asheville Citizen Times: Sensible City
Asheville-based Sensible City, Inc. is a business development firm with a twist. Founder Ian Bryan, 35, eschews traditional PR models in favor of what he calls community-oriented marketing.
Citizen-Times: What values doe we have in common?
Asheville sure can be a “versus” town sometimes. City slickers vs. county folks. Developers vs. neighborhood groups. Hippie activists vs. bellicose bureaucrats. You know the drill. There’s too much focus on our differences. So I’m always intrigued when there’s an effort to search for what Asheville residents have in common. Enter Asheville-based Barrett Values Centre. [...]
NBC: Digital classrooms for a digital world in Grand Rapids, MI
District officials in Kentwood Michigan hosted the community for a peek inside its high tech classrooms at Meadowlawn Elementary. In this clip, Wood TV 8 explores how the district uses PolyVision’s eno to engage in class with a “more collective and collaborative” style of learning. Superintendent Scott Palczewski explains how technology in the classroom helps [...]
Dallas Observer: Dallas sprouts green city block downtown
By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer [...]
Green Festival adds spring event in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO – Green Festival®, the nation’s largest and longest running sustainability event, will return to the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center this April 10-11, just in time to rev up the Golden Gate city for Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. More than 225 speakers, 350 eco-friendly businesses and a broad range of hands-on workshops will complement this [...]
Beaver County Times: New Brighton classrooms introduce interactive teaching devices
By Bill Utterback NEW BRIGHTON — On a wide screen in the classroom of New Brighton Middle School teacher Rick Schwartz, young Alexander, not yet labeled “The Great,” read Homer’s “The Iliad” from a scroll. A narrator reminded students that as he moved toward greatness, Alexander, inspired by Homer’s portrait of Achilles, always traveled with [...]
Greening Live Earth: Rio de Janeiro
Seven-Star, a Sensible City Partner and the world’s largest green event production company, provides a behind the scenes story of greening Live Earth Rio. Live Earth Rio achieved a total waste diversion of over 85% – 15 metric tons of recycling and organics were diverted from landfill.
Federal News Radio: Interview w/ White House Architect Stephen Ayers
This week, architects, builders, and vendors who sell construction services and supplies to the Federal Government and the private sector are meeting at the Washington Convention Center for “EcoBuild America”. By Max Cacas, Reporter, FederalNewsRadioListen to the story here Two years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the “Green the Capitol” initiative, designed to reduce [...]
Scholastic Administrator Magazine: Best in Tech Features PolyVision, Qwizdom and eChalk
When comparing editorial presence across three of our education clients, it popped up that each (eChalk, Qwizdom and PolyVision) have been recently featured in Scholastic Administrator Magazine’s “Best in Tech” section. Here are the summaries: PolyVision eno Jim Wolff Director, Information Technology Tustin Unified School District Tustin, California Response: Our staff has embraced the technology [...]
Three Ways to Get Your Green Ed-Tech On at #FETC 2010
You can’t miss the message: FETC has set its sights on a green future for American classrooms. If by chance you aren’t familiar with the Planet Green (Discovery) series Living with Ed, Ed Begley, Jr. is that guy famous for arriving at Hollywood red carpet events on his bicycle (really putting those limos into perspective.) [...]
Techlearning Magazine: Q7 is here
Gadget-weary teachers rejoice. The new wireless Q7 Presenter Tablet from Qwizdom combines many tools onto one device. Use the tablet much like an interactive whiteboard, except do it wirelessly from the back of the classroom instead of with your back turned in the front. Send instructions and receive feedback and requests for help from students [...]