All Viewers Please Note: After 4.5 years acting as the agency of record for Promethean in North America, Sensible City withdrew its services as of September, 2009. Today we have signed on with PolyVision, makers of the eno interactive whiteboard. eno offers a lifetime guarantee and dozens of classroom specific features that you can get with no other provider. But [...]
Nonprofits: Stop what you are doing and read, because I believe that we’ve stumbled upon a technology platform that (whether or not you want it to) is going to redefine how Americans find and interface with nonprofit organizations. Anyone who knows the nonprofit admin realm knows that there are a lot of online services that [...]
I’ll be posting more on this soon, but half the Sensible City crew will be onsite at the Ecocity World Summit in San Francisco – the first one to be held in the USA since 1990. We’re still shocked that of all the amazing agencies on the West Coast, the Summit chose Sensible City to [...]
A recent feature out of Central New York. [download wmv]
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Simplistic thinking is often applied to educational technology. Either it’s the greatest approach to education ever invented or it’s a waste of money. We can do better than such limited rhetoric. Too many advocates rely on weak arguments, such as “students are digital natives, so we should use more technology,” as if schools should [...]
I used to work in this building and now it is one of many images we’ll expect to see when Gary Braasch kicks off Ecocity 2008 in San Francisco with a 2 hour slideshow and presentation. Gary Braash’s images get at the heart of the climate change crisis, documenting receding glaciers, rising tides and tardy songbirds. [...]
[brightcove vid=1392526661&exp=980795693&w=300&h=260] Watch the video. Built on a scalable, Web 2.0 platform, good2gether enables nonprofits to enter volunteering opportunities, events, in-kind donation needs, etc., once—then distributes this info across the entire network, to everyone’s benefit: Nonprofits leverage free traffic Media partners get local content and fresh ad revenue Sponsors deliver their social responsibility messaging in [...]
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An explosion in green building is underway, with cleverly engineered libraries, office buildings, even public housing projects popping up across the Bay Area, and championed as much by landlords trying to cut energy and water costs as by environmental groups. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X8EgthqsQ0]
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22178 Activexpression by Promethean Activexpression by PrometheanPROMETHEAN has launched a new student response solution called Activexpression. The handheld device allows teachers to create activities, quizzes, and polls-even spontaneously- and students to express themselves through full phrases, symbols, and numbers. A two-way communication feature enables students to share answers with the teacher and their classmates, [...]
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