City of Longmont community services for Nov. 1

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Posting for Community and Culture: Considerations for the Design of Interactive ….

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Posting for Community and Culture: Considerations for the Design of Interactive Digital Bulletin Boards

Authors:

Claude Fortin, Carman Neustaedter, Kate Hennessy

Abstract:

The next decade is likely to see a shift in digital public displays moving from non-interactive to interactive content. This will likely create a need for digital bulletin boards and for a better understanding of how such displays should be designed to encourage community members to interact with them. Our study addresses this by exploring community bulletin boards as a ubiquitous type of participatory non-digital display “in the wild”. Our results highlight how they are used for content of local and contextual relevance, and how cultures of participation, personalization, location, the tangible character of architecture, access, control and flexibility might affect community members’ level of engagement with them. Our analysis suggests entry points as design considerations intrinsically linked to the users’ sense of agency within a delineated space. Overlaps with related work are identified throughout to provide further validation of previous findings in this area of research.

DOI:http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2556970
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Pittsfield Community Television Serves Up Local Programming with Tightrope

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Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

Soon, teachers across the country will be receiving their 2012 Carson-Dellosa product catalogs and the company has more to offer than ever before. In addition to over 280 innovative new products, this year’s catalog also features new digital offerings and twelve months of coupons.

Page three of the catalog displays Carson-Dellosa’s new Learning Spot™ Lessons with instructions for a free, full unit download. Learning Spot™ Lessons, comprehensive digital lesson plans for interactive whiteboards and computers offer teachers a variety of tools to promote engaged learning and simplify classroom management. The catalog also premiers new bulletin board sets featuring the one-and-only OLIVIA™, several new items added to the award-winning Guinness World Record® line, and much more!

In order to help teachers save money on the products they need for their classrooms, for the first time ever, Carson-Dellosa has also included twelve months of valuable coupons.

The publishing company was also thrilled to include local, North Carolina talent in the catalog artwork. The cover and several inside pages include photography shot by local photographer Stacey Haines, on location at Diggs-Latham Elementary School in Winston-Salem. The photos feature real teachers, parents, and students from Diggs-Latham and other area schools.

This year, catalog recipients will also find a variety of insightful teaching tips and ideas throughout the pages, contributed by Carson-Dellosa’s highly engaged Facebook fan community.

“This catalog paints a full picture of our relationship with teachers, parents, and students,” said Judy L. Harris, CEO of Carson-Dellosa. “We actively seek out and include teacher and parent input in all we do, from product development to our catalog and even our website. This customer-centric, insight-driven approach helps us to create the kinds of innovative products and programs teachers and parents need to successfully motivate and educate students today.”

Download your free Learning Spot™ Lesson Unit. To learn more about Carson-Dellosa click here.

About Carson-Dellosa

Carson-Dellosa Publishing, LLC, based in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a leading supplemental curriculum solutions provider for both educators and parents around the world. Founded by two teachers, the company boasts a 35-year history of enhancing a child’s learning potential and environment through quality curriculum, supplemental learning materials, and classroom resources.

Carson-Dellosa proudly provides teachers, parents, and children around the world with the best possible educational materials produced by the industry’s most recognized and respected award-winning brands including: Summer Bridge Activities™, Mark Twain Publishing, Key Education, HighReach Learning®, Frank Schaffer®, Spectrum®, Judy® Instructo, American Education Publishing™, and Brighter Child®. To learn more about Carson-Dellosa, visit carsondellosa.com, Facebook.com/CarsonDellosa, Twitter.com/CDPub, YouTube.com/CarsonDellosaPub, or Pinterest.com/CarsonDellosa.







Pittsfield Community Television Enhances Cable Network Operation with Tightrope Media Systems

Saint Paul, MN (PRWEB) March 28, 2012

Tightrope Media Systems is helping Pittsfield Community Television (PCTV) in Massachusetts more efficiently automate content across three cable channels using the company’s range of Cablecast automation and video server solutions.

PCTV, serving the Pittsfield, Dalton and Richmond communities, produces and broadcasts programming for three distinct channels: Access Pittsfield, a public access channel; Pittsfield ETV, showing educational programming; and government programming channel Citylink. Each station offers interactive bulletin boards, video-on-demand and live web streaming — all enabled through Tightrope Media solutions.

A longtime Cablecast customer, PCTV added Tightrope Media’s new Cablecast SX2HD platform to incorporate high-definition programming. The Cablecast SX2HD video server supports three channels (one in, two out), multi-format SD/HD encoding and decoding, and built-in content storage (16TB). PCTV has also established file-based workflows using Cablecast SX2HD, allowing the facility to work more efficiently by moving away from tape-based studio operations.

In addition to program scheduling and playout, Cablecast SX2HD incorporates Tightrope Media’s Carousel digital signage application to manage program graphics, channel logo insertion and bulletin board content created both in-house and from the community.

“Cablecast SX2HD is the central heart-pumping system for everything that runs through here,” said Shawn Serre, chief engineer, Pittsfield Community Television. “That seamless integration means we’re not dealing with a lot of different components and vendors that don’t work together. It makes the entire operation very reliable.”

The Cablecast SX2HD video server supports native playout of many different file formats, including MPEG2 I-Frame only (up to 100Mbps) and DVCPro HD and SD. This helps PCTV retain video quality and eliminate cumbersome content transcoding processes that many facilities experience upon migration to file-based workflows.

Serre adds that the efficiencies extend well beyond internal processes and onto the greater community through the interactive capabilities of Carousel.

“The built-in Carousel Framework allows viewers, as well as educational and government users, to create and submit messages for broadcast on the bulletin boards,” said Serre. “These are displayed to 20,000 households along with community info, weather data, RSS feeds and other content. Carousel also informs viewers about upcoming programs and schedules. It’s very vital to the workflow.”

Serre notes that Tightrope Media Systems has grown along with PCTV as it moves away from being strictly appointment television. Cablecast SX2HD’s automated operation extends to Cablecast video-on-demand (Cablecast ProVOD) and live streaming (Cablecast SX Live) solutions to help viewers consume content in new ways.

“The rise of new media means that people are hungry to consume content in non-traditional ways, so being able to provide television in different manners gives our viewers more options,” said Serre. “People are more likely to think of us a forward-thinking organization, which is important in community television. Tightrope has made it very efficient for us to automate channels and bulletin boards while moving to HD and file-based workflows.”

About Tightrope Media Systems

Founded in 1997, Tightrope Media Systems is the pioneer of web-centric digital signage and broadcast automation systems. It provides station automation, video servers, internet video on demand, live streaming, the Carousel Digital Signage system, and ZEPLAY, a multi-channel instant replay machine for stadiums, arenas and Outside Broadcast vehicles. Tightrope’s award winning systems are used throughout the world. You can reach Tightrope Media Systems at (866) 866-4118 or visit them on the web at http://www.trms.com.







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