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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

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. It generates pie charts and bar graphs that provide managers with a statistical look at how teleworkers are spending their time.

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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This unwieldy new word connotes the combination of a whole new generation of computing power, massive online data resources and new capabilities for online working collaboration with peers.

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

Museum 2.0

In the platform power post, I wrote about the four powers a platform has: the power to set the rules of behavior the power to preserve and exploit user-generated content the power to promote and feature preferred content the power to define the types of interaction available to users We've already addressed some ways that ScratchR does 1, 2, and 4.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

Dan was living in the Mission neighborhood, which at the time was very kid-dense, mostly first-generation immigrants, and Dan noticed that when he was messing around in his garage with physics gadgets, he could not keep the kids in his neighborhood out of his garage. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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