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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Children love their freedom. Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. A Connection to the Outside World.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Children love their freedom. Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. A Connection to the Outside World.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Children love their freedom. Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. A Connection to the Outside World.

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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

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In the donor’s mind, they can’t close the loop on the gift until they receive a receipt. 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.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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