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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

Forum One

The device's hardware includes components not currently found in a traditional desktop computer or laptop. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. It's promised battery life is ten hours -- longer than any laptop to date.

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Burlington Public Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. The library needed a more complex configuration that has different profiles for users (public, job database, and catalog). Burlington Library has around 600 patrons who use library computers each day.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. You know, with the Better Impact system, you fill out a profile on our website as a link, and then you move through the system.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. It isn't a walled garden. Know of any?

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency is crucial because tracking, profiling, and behavioral marketing to users has become a widespread, global practice that often leaves us befuddled. This applies both in building friendships and in building business, and the learning starts right at home and in the classroom. As leaders, we have to respect our audience.

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Educational Uses of Back Channels for Conferences, Museums, and Informal Learning Spaces

Museum 2.0

Last week, I had my first serious experience with useful back channels at a conference ( WebWise ), and it taught me some lessons about how back channels might be used effectively as a learning tool in museums and other experiential venues (like conferences and classrooms). The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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