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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law!

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First trip to China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Hadley's brand of distance education for the blind (and people who care about blind people) has been adapted to focus on teaching of English in China. In addition, Hong Kong passed a copyright exemption just in the last year, and the leaders in Hong Kong are considering how to utilize this new tool. It's unusual for a U.S.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. districts, from blocking and filtering to teaching children to be. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? Copyright © 2008. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? that you can use to get started, or adapt to suit the needs of your own organization. May 2006 (1).

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Everything I Needed to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism When: Saturday, March 14th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room 9 Description: Feminism teaches "the personal is political" and the web shows that the personal is now public. Tuesday, March 17th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Room 10 March 13, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.

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