Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. These milestones represent a giant leap forward in the number of students and individuals we serve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). In the U.S., We’re honored and proud to embark upon this new project!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I recently was sworn in by Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter as one of nineteen people serving on the Advisory Commission on Accessible Instructional Materials in Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I’m excited to contribute to this topic in honor of the multitudes who work together to make a difference in the world through Bookshare, a global asset we have built with joint efforts of education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. Our vision is to provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities and help them overcome a major barrier to accessing to the most valuable prize in society: a great education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. We also picked up books Carrie had previously ordered - including special requests from students who need specific texts for their classes. students thanks to support from the U.S. This drives us crazy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

During that time, we’ve grown from offering one product to offering many products and services, in four program areas: education, human rights, the environment, and, now, tech volunteerism. As a result, people with disabilities were left behind, facing insurmountable barriers to opportunities in education, employment, and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. talking about their research. And that's just two examples.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. Given the increasing use of cell phones and other mobile technologies by students and employees, as well as the rise of BYOD policies, your. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. Key Considerations for Educators. Lost productivity.

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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. One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. Pollak, T.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions. 3-4 — Sector Student - Arent we all? I think its time to further my nonprofit education!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Hadley's brand of distance education for the blind (and people who care about blind people) has been adapted to focus on teaching of English in China. In addition, Hong Kong passed a copyright exemption just in the last year, and the leaders in Hong Kong are considering how to utilize this new tool. It's unusual for a U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. serving students with print disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. The purpose is to challenge the traditional means of delivering legal education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things. What is required for this promise to come through in education?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

The stories were about Arizona schools and the state of education pertaining to the academic achievement of students and their schools. The sub-heading stated, "More of Arizonas public schools are excelling, according to the state Department of Education." [1] 1] The headline in the Arizona Republic noted, "More Ariz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I know from my own personal experience as a nonprofit student, I really had to educate myself in order to change my perspective about fair compensation. I really like the way you looked into the details of your organization and educated yourself about their compensation practices. Paying staff adds up! Excellent points Emily.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. the work of copyright holders. What does this mean in an educational context ? Hiring people.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Social networking should truly be a part of the education process, as I wrote recently on my blog, [link] November 29, 2006 | Jean Locicero Shankle Hey this was really interesting. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Social networking should truly be a part of the education process, as I wrote recently on my blog, [link] November 29, 2006 | Jean Locicero Shankle Hey this was really interesting. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. Over the course of this past semester, teams of students have been working through the rating process for a pool of organizations. Its an exciting time.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. all areas where social media makes a total sense.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. all areas where social media makes a total sense.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

The metric boils down to cost per action as applied to advocacy or outreach (branding, education, etc) campaigns. Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. all areas where social media makes a total sense.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

OneWebDay provides an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive change, to take action to protect what they value most about it, and to educate the public and policy-makers on the social, economic, and political impact of the Web. You can send an Op-Ed to a local newspaper about local digital divides.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Student privacy.

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