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 here’s the best part for Sensible City’s environmental commitments: this is the only IWB to achieve the coveted Cradle 2 Cradle Certification. As well, eno reaches Gold Standard under the SCS Indoor Advantage Certification. This makes eno the most environmentally sustainable classroom technology product we’ve found on the market in the USA.

For SRS/LRS, we are now proud to represent Qwizdom - the company that gave birth to an entire market segment over 25 years ago and continues to produce the most enriching interactive experience available for classrooms worldwide. We’re positive that between these two values-driven companies, we now represent the most promising technology available for today’s classrooms. Check them out:www.polyvision.com and www.qwizdom.com.

‘Activboards’ Being Rolled Out In Several Schools

Interactive Whiteboard Key Part Of Educational Future, Teachers Say

[Read about it at MSNBC or watch it on CNN]

Anyone who knows the nonprofit admin realm knows that there are a lot of online services that presume to be the holy grail of SEO and response generation. Some of them are great, many of them are just copycats of an original. But for the hundreds of thousands of organizations that have signed on to these, the results have been predominately average.

In comes good2gether. First, watch the video.

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Now, consider this. How many times has your instinct to contribute to a cause or to a movement come as an instant, passionate response to an editorial or broadcast news story? Sure, you may have heard about Hurricane Katrina from a friend, but it was the message from the media that made your heart sink and your drive to contribute come forward.

I for one watched it unfold on CNN. My family came together on the issue. We funded a friend of ours, a midwife, to drove from Chicago to NOLA with supplies, food and the necessary skills to help laboring women who were stranded with no medical care.

Or lets make it simple. In my home town of Asheville, NC, I read stories every week about mountaintop removal and other environmental tragedies that occur daily in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I would love to be able to move that frustration… move that emotion through immediate, intelligent action. The national nonprofits just don’t do it for us like they used to. We need something more. We need something local.

So here we are with a platform that ties local events, local volunteering and local fundraising directly to the causes we find so troubling in our daily news. And that is just the beginning (again, watch the video or visit the website, www.good2gether.com). This is about community empowerment. Its about giving Americans more options, more information and more relevant (local) opportunities to engage than ever before.

Did I mention that it is free to nonprofits?

sign-up today

Oh, and don’t take our word for it:

• San Francisco Business Times
• San Jose Mercury News
• Boston Globe
• PC Magazine

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A recent feature out of Central New York.

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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 have used radio and TV more often when earlier generations grew up with those media. Stanford University’s Larry Cuban was right to warn against the excessive “hype” one hears about the value of computers. (“The Laptop Revolution Has No Clothes,” Commentary, Oct. 18, 2006.) On the other hand, a majority of skeptics have failed to notice how quickly online schools, computer-based testing, and other powerful innovations are spreading, and how significant they are.

[Read entire story]

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.  In line with the focus of the Ecocity World Summit, Braash will present his global past and present photographic record of climate change with emphasis on cities, their contributions to the problems of the world’s environment, and whole systems initiatives for change.

Gary Braasch Photography – All Rights Reserved

http://good2gether.com/index.html 

PS – it is bigger than you think:

• San Francisco Business Times
• San Jose Mercury News
• Boston Globe
• PC Magazine

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