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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Books with image descriptions will go back into the Bookshare library for students with print disabilities to use in their coursework.

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Schoolytics is a dashboard that keeps teachers, students and parents on the same page

TechCrunch

If something happened that caused a student (or many students!) Pitched as an “all-in-one information hub” for students, parents, teachers and admins, Schoolytics is an analytics dashboard (School + Analytics = Schoolytics, yeah?) Much of that, it seems, holds true today. Image Credits: Schoolytics.

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How People Use Social Media

NCE Social Media

The nice folks at Wolfram Blog have created a set of charts identifying how people talk on Facebook as they age. That’s not too surprising but some of the other charts might be of interest to you and your organization. More than one million people have done so to date. source: Wolfram Blog. source: Wolfram Blog.

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Now you can determine your level of Fauci with this handy meme

The Verge

So when a public health expert needed a way to measure how her students were coping with all of the stresses of 2020, she created a chart to gauge their “level of Fauci.”. “We So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort.

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BeReal: Hype or hit? What to know about the Gen Z photo-sharing app climbing the charts

TechCrunch

College students at Brown’s student paper reported BeReal was paying them $30 per referral and $50 for an app download with a review. The students would receive the money via PayPal or Venmo, they said. The current ambassador program is running from January through June 2022, per BeReal’s website.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. She helps nonprofit executives, think tank experts, and university students deliver their message. Click here for more tips.

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Essential Steps for Tracking and Reporting Association KPIs

Association Analytics

Effective dashboards use simple, meaningful visuals like line charts and bar charts to highlight trends and performance. Use metrics like certifications, accreditations, student and early career membership growth, and industry trends to gauge success. Pillar: Advance the Profession What to track?