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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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Telework and the Environment. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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He is fluent in Spanish (for a non-native speaker) and one of his main areas of study is bilingual interpretation in out-of-school environments. Steve is a Principal at Audience Viewpoints Consulting, has a Ph.D. Bilingualism in the U.S. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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but still, a programming environment. Again, the ScratchR team is promoting use of Scratch and community-building around the programming environment. It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. Does it work?