Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Dubbed "Model B+," it's the third model the organization has released to the public since Model A went on sale in 2012. It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system.

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Education Model Student Open Source 76

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art. I'd love to find a grad student or two who are interested in creating some interesting research around this project, and of course, I'll be blogging about it. The exhibition will run from December 14, 2012 to March 4 of 2013. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital.

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