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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program. copyright law. and that risk paid off.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds talking about their research. I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor.

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Delhi University

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a university with a strong commitment to serving students with vision impairments (having over XXX such students), the U is very interested in participating with Bookshare.org.in. It's a huge university: more than 100,000 students including their open university extension. And, there was a cow or two on my sojourn!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: American Humanics: An Elite Group

ASU Lodestar Center

But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Okay, okay — I stole this slogan from the U.S. Marine Corps. So, sue me!

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Google Announces Project 10^100 for World-Changing Ideas - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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i impllemented in future means i will give name to this as SHOI abbrevated as student helping organization of india,which was run by the students,students are the main aspect for this.In will collet only from the 9th standard students to phd students.at will collet only from the 9th standard students to phd students.at

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He suggests using an alternative video host where you can put a creatives commons license on our work and that you should set your content free: Set your content free - don't use anything more restrictive than Creative Commons attribution (beware the sting in tail of share alike). Student creating a presentation in college?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Thats my list, and you probably have yours — I say that because, as the research tells us, charitable giving is driven by a host of individual motivations and preferences.