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John Hunter Named Martin Institute Fellow

John Hunter Named Martin Institute Fellow

The Martin Institute is pleased to announce that teacher John Hunter, a 4th grade teacher with Albemarle County Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been named as the first Martin Institute Teaching Excellence Fellow.

John Hunter Named The Best of TED 2011

John Hunter Named The Best of TED 2011

In the special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post count down 18 great ideas of 2011, with original blog posts that they think will shape 2012. John Hunter was honored…

ABC takes the trip to Los Banos, CA, features Letters Alive by Logical Choice

ABC takes the trip to Los Banos, CA, features Letters Alive by Logical Choice

Last fall we re-started media relations and content development services for an old friend – Logical Choice Technologies (LCT). If you’ve been following our work in education, you might make the connection: Logical Choice is the largest seller and servicer of Promethean classroom technology products in the USA, and one of our earliest education clients. [...]

Volunteer Day with Sensible City and The Family Resource Center

Volunteer Day with Sensible City and The Family Resource Center

The team lends a helping hand at the Emma Family Resource Center, shutting down the community garden for the winter.

Notes from the field… ULS

Notes from the field… ULS

One of our Social Enterprise Clients, Excent Corporation, dedicates the majority of all funding and labor resources to the Magic Wand Foundation (SC Founder Ian Bryan on its Board). This week is the big one – once each year, kids from around the world converge on Disney World for a youth empowerment camp called the Ultimate [...]

Notes from the field… TEDx ED

Notes from the field… TEDx ED

We’re still hunting for our shoes after an extraordinary week in Philadelphia. Before we start posting ISTE recaps, here’s a series of “short reports” from Sensible City’s flagship production of the week: TEDxPhiladelphiaED…

Stewart Pisecco talks behavior at TCEA

Stewart Pisecco talks behavior at TCEA

It’s not so black & white, as Dr. Pisecco so eloquently explains. Hat tip to eSchoolnews for this double-length video interview with Stewart Pisecco, CEO of Psychological Software Solutions – shot at TCEA 2011.

ABC Ch. 7 News: Students “take note”

ABC Ch. 7 News: Students “take note”

This is the first in a series of broadcasts from our community/media event at Gulf Coast High School in Collier County Florida.

Fox News: Livescribe smartpens in the classroom

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…

News Press: Smartpen program getting results so far

News Press: Smartpen program getting results so far

Dayna Harpster with the Ft. Meyers News Press joined us for our community/media event at Gulf Coast H.S. in Collier County Florida and filed this report…

ABC Wichita visits Wichita Collegiate

ABC Wichita visits Wichita Collegiate

ABC Wichita visited a community/media event at Janice Crowley’s Chemistry class at Wichita Collegiate High School. Here’s their report on how the school uses Livescribe Smartpen’s in the classroom and at home.

Kansas.com – News video from Janice Crowley’s Wichita Classrooms

Kansas.com – News video from Janice Crowley’s Wichita Classrooms

Janice Crowley, an award-winning Chemistry teacher at Wichita Collegiate School (and a Professor at Wichita State University), chats with education reporters from the Wichita Eagle, who brought along a video camera in addition to their print coverage of WCS’ use of Livescribe Echo smartpens in the classroom. Click here to watch… http://videos.kansas.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=68328411

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