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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

One person we spoke with described the sudden adjustments at her food bank: We had never used a platform virtually before. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. CVAs described how transitioning to virtual and remote service removed the barriers of distance and lack of transportation.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't." How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. Emphasis is on digital literacy. MacArthur Foundation. National Science Foundation.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience.

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