Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 5, 2008
The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 18, 2007
The milestones are going to be coming ever faster, now that we have the Bookshare.org for Education project (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education). We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam. Mr. Jim and Ms. Big challenges.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
By the way, Mike and Mary work for the University of Guam at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research and Services (CEDDERS), who manages the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project (CIMAP), which is the whole reason I'm here in the Pacific!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 8, 2008
Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. But the dried version I had on Guam was better, and gives you a warm feeling. I couldn't find out much about them, other than that they were relatively recently wrecked (don't know if that means ten years ago or thirty).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 22, 2008
But, she's a teacher with a national reputation and a fierce dedication to improving and reforming the system for educating blind children. She's even been to Pingelap with Mary Kidd from Guam, taking the ship Micro Glory for 24 hours, sleeping on a straw mat on one of the upper decks.
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