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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. Additional Resources. They have around 2,100 employees and about a third of them telework on a regular basis. Find their report here.

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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. Now a Second Wave is about to hit: Cyberinfrastructure.

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

Museum 2.0

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. They were so fascinated and wanted to be there every day. How are Workshop locations selected?

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