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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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However, based on my conversations and experiences with many museum professionals, my guess is that many of you are aware of the issue, may think it’s worth discussing, but have limited knowledge about the core issues surrounding bilingual interpretation.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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The Exploratorium is great, but it wasn''t super-accessible. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. or free access to the dump to get materials. Once in the space, there are a bunch of design features that continue to be about access.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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In this way, like on YouTube, my actions as a viewer still affect the creator community, because creators are aware of the number of views on their projects. This is a HUGE value-added for people to join the community--they gain access to the code to every project on the site, and are encouraged to share what they've made with it.