The actportal Initiative is a blog about an Action Portal. It’s an attempt to apply the framework of an action portal to define and break down the term, and hopefully in the process become more familiar with the concept itself.
The blog, which launched today, is primarily a collection of links that have been posted to Twitter or elsewhere by people who are interested in or working on Action Portals. But it also includes some original content: posts from people like me who are interested in what other people are doing but don’t have much to say yet.
Why this format? Because I think it does a better job of capturing what’s going on with a subject that’s relevant to so many different fields, both online and offline. It’s also more fun for me, since I can use it as a way of writing about a lot of different things at once, without having to keep track of them separately.
The actportal Initiative is a long-term effort to help make all the world’s information, from blogs to books to lecture notes, searchable and accessible on the web.
The actportal Initiative includes several projects, such as the actportal Book Search, which will allow users to search the full text of scanned books that are in the public domain and preview or purchase copyrighted books. The actportal Scholar service will allow researchers to locate peer-reviewed journal articles and citations. The actportal Print service will allow publishers to sell their content online.
By focusing on finding answers rather than links, we hope to provide a useful resource for our users while also serving as a model of how best to organize information on the web.
This is the first post in our blog series, “What Is The actportal Initiative?”
The actportal Initiative is a global effort to help students, parents and educators understand what students are expected to learn — and be able to do — at high school graduation. It sets out clear goals for what students should learn, regardless of where they live. That way, all students have the opportunity to graduate high school prepared for college and careers.
In addition to setting a clear standard, the actportal Initiative has also developed tests that measure whether or not students are meeting the standards. And these tests aren’t just the same old multiple choice you see on other standardized exams, but rather require students to engage in higher-level thinking such as analyzing, evaluating and writing about what they’ve read.
This means that when your child takes the actportal exam, he or she will have to think critically about what he or she has learned in class. For example:
Imagine that your child read a passage about Cesar Chavez and was asked to answer questions like: “Why did Chavez choose nonviolent resistance?” If a student was given a list of possible answers with no context relating to Chavez’s experiences or his philosophies on nonviolent resistance, he or she might just guess!
The actportal™ initiative is an effort by the international standards community to develop a common framework for the technical interoperability of software for the built environment. The common framework will consist of a standard data model, which can be used as a basis for creating software applications that can exchange data with each other. actportal is not a software product or a service. Rather, it is an open set of data definitions and rules that provide guidance to software developers in designing interoperable software.
The actportal initiative is rooted in the AECO industry, but the concepts are applicable in any domain where there are applications (or devices) that need to exchange information. As such, it has garnered interest from many groups and organizations outside of the AECO industry, including healthcare, process manufacturing, energy management, transportation and logistics.
The Background
actportal is a global initiative with roots dating back to 1997 when it was first launched internationally as buildingSMART. BuildingSMART began as a United Kingdom-based non-profit organization (buildingSMART UK). In 2006, buildingSMART UK merged with the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), an organization formed in 1994 by representatives from several countries who were developing standards for interoperability in the architecture/
One of the most important and critical initiatives for the ACT is to ensure that all students have access to a free, online ACT practice tool. This is part of a larger initiative called actportal, which will open up the world of college and career planning for all students.
In order to make this resource available to all students, we will be working with our partners at Microsoft Education and Apple Education to bring together various programs from the ACT into one central location. While it is still in the early stages, we hope that this will help us deliver an easy-to-use, engaging platform for all students.
We look forward to sharing more information on this initiative as it develops. In the meantime, please email us if you have any questions or comments.
actportal is the leading platform for building on-demand marketplace apps. Like Uber and Airbnb, but for services.
actportal is an on-demand service that connects customers with qualified local professionals in real time. Customers use our mobile app to select a category of service (called a “service set”) they need done (e.g., house cleaning), see a list of providers that can complete that service, and then request one of them immediately or schedule for later. Providers receive these requests through our provider app and can either accept or deny them. If accepted, actportal charges the customer’s credit card on file and remits payment to the provider less a commission.
The actportal API allows partners to access and integrate the functionality and data of actportal with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include managing account information, managing orders, retrieving quotes, posting jobs, and managing job status.
ACT Portal (Actors and Creatives Tomorrow) is a community of artists who are interested in the intersection of art and technology. The organization was founded in 2016 by Adam Berg and has grown to include over 300 members in the New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco, Denver, and Seattle areas.
ACT Portal is dedicated to creating a thriving community of artists who are eager to learn more about how emerging technologies will change their creative work in the coming decades. We believe an artistic approach to understanding these technologies can help us prepare for their impact on our careers, our culture, and our everyday lives.
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