By Sensible City SM on January 29, 2010
School District Meets Army
Deployment, anxiety, and hard work are constant factors in this Texas district.
By Jen Scott Curwood
“You know what’s hard about being the new kid at school?” asks Gail Siller, superintendent of Fort Sam Houston Independent School District (FSHISD). “Not knowing where to sit at lunch.”
Siller’s district serves children of active military personnel currently [...]
Posted in Bottom News, Clients In The News, Education, Government | Tagged district websites, echalk, edtec, educational technology, gail siller, k12, online learning environment, roland rios
By derekgordon on January 17, 2010
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 and new tools, developing [...]
Posted in Clients In The News, Education, Government | Tagged district websites, echalk 10.0, echalk enterprise, Interactive Whiteboard, IWB, Ken Royal, polyvision eno, q4, q7, qwizdom, Scholastic Administrator
By Amy Senn on December 21, 2009
Самодостаточность – понятие субъективное. Вот как может быть самодостаточным квартал большого города? Оказывается, вполне может. Именно таким должен быть квартал Forwarding Dallas, который должен появиться в городе Даллас через несколько лет.
Застройщик Urban Revision со штаб-квартирой в Сан-Франциско и португальская архитектурная фирма Atelier Data and MOOV выиграли конкурс на застройку одного [...]
Posted in Clients In The News, Government | Tagged Central Dallas CDC, Dallas City Hall, dallas sustainable square block, Forwarding Dallas, Sustainable Building, urban revision
By Sensible City SM on November 10, 2009
The following comes from Florentina Chichita, with our Action Affiliate in Romania:
As of December 1st 2009, bloggers in the US will be obliged to declare sums of money or goods received to blog about a product or service. The VIPs of social media will have to declare material benefits received to promote a company on [...]
Posted in Government, Social Media | Tagged blog about product or service, FTC gag, FTC requirements for blogging
By Andrew Fletcher on August 3, 2009
The Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco is so dangerous that the U.S. Environmental Agency has designated it as one of the most polluted sites in the nation.
But instead of letting the site fester, San Francisco has just announced plans to rid the shipyard of its toxins and build the U.N. Global Compact Center, a [...]
Posted in Government