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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. It tracks a teleworkers’ activities including duration and applications used.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

This qualitative, exploratory study involved tracking and interviewing 32 Spanish-speaking intergenerational groups in fully bilingual exhibits at four different science centers/museums. 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. 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

Museum 2.0

I'm still a "passive consumer" in the eyes of ScratchR, but my actions are tracked every time I view a Scratch project (as are spectators'). 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. I'm one of them.