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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. Our smartphones are an increasingly important telework tool. Tools like WebEx, GoToMeeting , and ReadyTalk are all optimized for the small screen.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

Well, if we can come up with an open structure where anyone who works at any level of the process could share that process-that would be very unique and add very high value. 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?

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

Museum 2.0

A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. For example, kids and tools. I was awestruck.

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

Museum 2.0

It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. You may want to open a window with the ScratchR homepage so you can refer to it throughout this post. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests.