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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Telework (also called telecommuting) is where an employee regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. One of the main affordances of bilingual interpretation, of course, is that it provides access to content.

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

Museum 2.0

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. Grants come from community foundations, small local family foundations, local businesses.

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