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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. Donors really are heroes that make it possible for organizations to change lives. It is not false praise.

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Debunking Misconceptions about Mobile Learning

Gyrus

While a mobile device is used to provide online learning, it doesn’t imply that you will be doing the same kind of e-Learning that you would do using your laptop or desktop. The smaller screen (in most cases) and touch based interaction demands a change in the size of the course and the way it is being presented.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. If your organization demands an immediate change, an external time component in unnecessary, and the inevitable reception of a bill to reflect that proposed demand can be completely averted.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Interested in games for learning and social change. How do you measure the change? MacArthur Foundation.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. As one CVA with a medical nonprofit explained: Our volunteer workforce demographic is changing. The changes in technology are more difficult for some of our older volunteers.”. and Canada about their technology use.

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Setting Up Windows MultiPoint Server

Tech Soup

Windows MultiPoint Server allows non-technical users to set up a multi-user computing environment, such as a classroom, computer lab, or public access stations, all without the support of dedicated IT staff. Follow the on-screen prompts to change the administrator password, name the host computer, and to select basic configuration options.