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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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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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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

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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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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

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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.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

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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.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

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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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