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Bookshare.org milestones

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam. We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities.

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Social Enterprise: Black Pearls from Nukuoro Atoll

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By the way, Mike and Mary work for the University of Guam at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research and Services (CEDDERS), who manages the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project (CIMAP), which is the whole reason I'm here in the Pacific!

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

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In a private workplace, employers can set their own standards of about what type of speech is acceptable, according to Jay Hornack, adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and specialist in employee rights. He says First Amendment rights are not “something an employee can enforce against an employer”.