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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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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

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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. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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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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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. To increase the functionality, visibility, and accessibility of these images to web users worldwide. Why would they want to do that?

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

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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. But that email address is never accessible to other users, and unless she is from a town of 1, she's somewhat protected. Adults and Kids, All in One Place.