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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. Our motto is “If it’s born digital, it should be born accessible!”

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Digital camera.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The landscape of communication is evolving at an exponential rate, and digital media creation is riding at the head of the wave. But what remains constant underneath all the change in this digital age is the steady pulse of community storytelling. The world is changing.

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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. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!)

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital. Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art. This project excites me for a number of reasons: Our values are aligned.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

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. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I also contributed my used Olympus digital recorder that I purchased when I read about it from Andy Carvin. David Saski from Global Voices contributed these $10 digital cameras. Source: Denith Denith won a digital camera. Here is what he wrote: I want a digital camera for helping attract more tourism for Cambodia.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Comodo provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) digital certificates that authenticate your nonprofit's website. Litmos is compatible with numerous media types, including Microsoft Office, Flash, video, and audio. Learners can access the courses via a web browser or any iOS or Android device. Two Truths and a Lie. Two Truths and a Lie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. The prisoners stay in the computer lab and work hard to master digital skills. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. Cyberschool.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

It's called VoiceThread , and it's a program that allows you to create an elegant slideshow of images with audio (and text, and scribbles) to go along. You can use it to create your own narrative experience, and you can also allow other users to comment on and add their own commentary to the images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A digital member badge that can be shared on social media. Certificates of appreciation (digital). Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Access to exclusive digital content. These exist already! Personal thank you letter from the founder, ED, chair, leadership powerhouses.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

But I also got an opportunity to finally hear the keynote speaker, Sree Sreenivasan , Chief Digital Officer of the @MetMuseum in person. Here’s a few of my takeaways: Comfortable Learning in Public: He wanted to make a point about the world going digital. The students are an audience they want to reach.He No drama.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. By the time of Bookshare’s creation in 2001, new and better XML digital book formats had been developed. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books.

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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. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These digital assets can include stock photos, templates for various eLearning elements (ranging from page layouts to learning games), ready-to-use animations, vectors, and more. A perpetual license costs $1299 and student teachers can access the solution for $399. These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. per month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

You might see an over representation of Point Lobos- this is because of the pre-conference digital photography workshop a few of us (including me!) We just sent it out, but it is really great to have people provide feedback in audio, text, or video form. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. We will definitely do this again.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

We love to bring together communications, marketing, digital strategy, and fundraising all together in a strategic integrated way. And that can be written, videos, photos, audio, there’s a lot of ways to tell a story and it’s okay to take the same story and retell it in all of these ways. That’s kind of what we do.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. Even though Gen Y has been bred on digital, they (we) recognize the value in face-to-face interactions. You should. We Miss you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert???sOrganizational s students have produced unofficial audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art and made them available on the Web as podcasts. MoMA provides official audio guides, on proprietary audio devices,for a fee. For Spring Semester, Gilbert???s

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