Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Our smartphones are an increasingly important telework tool. Tools like WebEx, GoToMeeting , and ReadyTalk are all optimized for the small screen. The usefulness of smartphones as business productivity tools doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The Almighty Smartphone. All social media is utterly native to mobile devices.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

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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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

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). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out professional development.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. This is the most novel sharing tool I've seen on any social network. but still, a programming environment.

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