Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. Empowered over 600,000 people who are blind or dyslexic to read with Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2012

Recently in a class that I am taking, I had to evaluate 150 children's books in 7 different categories. The added descriptions gave me a new respect when doing my evaluations. I also read some of my evaluated books to a class at a child care center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Universal design gets a lot of well-deserved attention, and I was positively delighted by the plug for born accessible: Education stakeholders should develop a born accessible standard of learning resource design to help educators select and evaluate learning resources for accessibility and equity of learning experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities. Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. . - Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

In this instance, evaluating Martus’ impact using standard indicators like the number of human rights accounts (“bulletins”) backed up to the Martus servers—one of our primary indicators of achievement towards measured success—is meaningless.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We seek to evaluate our people and our work, and to continue to document and improve our procedures. We are a nonprofit technology company serving the unserved, tackling important challenges that the private sector cannot by developing content, products and services to effect social change. We value professionalism, dedication and service.

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