John's Technology Blog: Cool Site: Unscrew America

March 21, 2008

Cool Site: Unscrew America

One of my students just brought Unscrew America into my radar (Thanks Sean). This site takes an incredibly important, but equally boring, topic of alternatives to incandescent bulbs and makes it visually exciting and just plain fun. There is some serious talent behind it - just look at the about box.

My question is why don't we do this with other topics? Ideally, we would have creation tools that facilitate this type of media so that an average 12-year-old can use it. Let them teach us a few things.

Mar 21, 2008 9:14:45 AM | Cool Findings

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