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Team-Up for Textbooks: Volunteer to Help Students with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

all too many students with print disabilities might not have the textbooks they need for class. When a Bookshare student member with a print disability needs a book for school that is not yet in the Bookshare collection, the member submits a request and Bookshare creates an accessible digital version of that book.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Tap Into the Power of App and Web-based Push Notifications

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Sajan Devshi from Learndojo , a nonprofit educational website that specializes in providing free A-level and GCSE resources to students, teachers, and parents. You can classify push notifications generally into two categories: app-based push notifications and web-based push notifications.

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From Nigeria to Google’s Startup Grind: How this high school student is disrupting education

The Next Web

Along with a friend who faced similar struggles, they developed MindMap, an edtech tool to helps teachers learn about their students’ learning styles, interests, and career goals in a short period. A young entrepreneur Femi, please tell me about your background.

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. And as technology evolves, so do students’ needs. So I spoke to some experts on the subject: students themselves. So I spoke to some experts on the subject: students themselves. Best laptops for elementary school students.

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Student-founded Develop for Good surpasses 25,000 volunteer hours connecting students with nonprofits

TechCrunch

This coincidence of needs among both students and nonprofits helped accelerate the matching that Develop for Good offers. Typical projects include application development, data visualization, and web design. The new stipend is meant to help these students continue to volunteer while alleviating some of that financial burden.

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A Dallas-based founder looks to tackle the student loan crisis with his startup, College Cash

TechCrunch

His startup, College Cash , allows brands to petition users to create photo and video marketing content highlighting their product or service, with the wrinkle being that content creators are paid by the brands in the form of credits that go directly toward paying down their student loan debt.

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Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement

NetWits

Launching in February 2004 for students at Harvard University it quickly became a popular site and expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy Leagues, and Stanford University. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools.