Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom India 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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Conversation Classroom Skype Contest 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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eBook Accessibility United States Student 203

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals"). He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. He starts with the child within.

Jamaica 50

Jamaica National Develop Wikipedia 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. Geography is fluid, though. We start each official meeting with introductions.

Chicago 48

Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Take the time to package the story as best you can: add photos, video, audio, pull quotes, infographics. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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Story Impact Arkansas Kentucky 47

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. Like, we got to make it easier for our students to digest.”

Community 81

Community Video Slides Survey 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. We need labels AND audio AND post-its AND collage-making AND games AND meditation.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51