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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. Microsoft Office Mobile is preinstalled on Windows Phone 8 and is available for select models of iPhone and Android phones as well.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

One of the main affordances of bilingual interpretation, of course, is that it provides access to content. The BERI study shows that access to content—the most obvious benefit of bilingual labels—is just the tip of the iceberg.

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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. So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. or free access to the dump to get materials.

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