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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Over the next year, these fellows will be learning, sharing, designing, implementing, and challenging themselves to become digital inclusion experts who can and will transform their communities.

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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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2015 SXSW Interactive Round Up

NTEN

Many are designed to bring people together to share stories and content, create digital watering holes, and make connections. Amidst that backdrop, one session hosted a critical conversation about the real issues of online harassment and opportunities for organizing for change. In the U.S. million data interpretation–related jobs. >>Read

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

Tech Soup

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. like Texas, where one instructor will be heading to college.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. There are statewide programs like Texas Center for the Visually Challenged and Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii.

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ASTC Recap: Questions, Colors, and Reflective Research

Museum 2.0

Worth, Texas. I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Last week, the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) held their annual meeting in Ft. are fairly meaningless to all involved. Leary (NRG!