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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He It was a magical hour.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. This can be a musical number, a choreographed dance, or a stand-up comedy bit. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Virtual Board Meetings: The Quick Guide for Nonprofits

Top Nonprofits

This adds in that much-needed face-to-face element, so you won’t have to rely solely on audio to communicate. To successfully incorporate video conferencing into your digital meetings, share these tips with attendees: Test your Wi-Fi connection as well as your audio and video equipment before joining the call.

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