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

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Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. A Sickening Discovery.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

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In addition to visual programming and Java, MathAndCoding now offers classes on HTML, CSS, and template-based web design, as well as a Technology Day event where they introduce games and apps for different platforms. The fact that we are a host site for Girls Who Code adds credibility to our programs as well.

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

Tech Soup

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. A Sickening Discovery.

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

Tech Soup

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. A Sickening Discovery.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. s called a web site.

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Burlington Public Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

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Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. After the system was up and running, they found that the refresh rate when scrolling down a long web page was sometimes a problem.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site.