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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I believe in the power of books to change the world. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons. enhanced cultural and technical literacy, not just an ability to reuse materials, but a willingness to do so.

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Associated Recreation Council of Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. This was a five-station donation: Server computer: Core 2 Duo Dell Desktop, 6 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive. Four Plugable USB docking stations. One USB hub. Five new iMicro keyboards. Five new iMicro mice.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish. 4 Plugable USB Docking Stations. 1 USB Hub. 5 keyboards.

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

What would your institution be in a world where you have more non-English-speaking (real and virtual) visitors than English speakers? If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content? Where homeschooling is dominant?

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