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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits

Kitaboo

Unlimited digital files of magazines, books, journals, articles, audio, and more are preserved in these virtual libraries. Textual content, video and audio files, images, and more are used to communicate their message to people. They can be virtually managed from any location that has internet connectivity.

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How Pacific Science Center ran safe, successful summer camps — in-person — despite COVID-19

GeekWire

The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,500 kids enrolled in the Science Center’s virtual camps, including students from out of state. ” That was the case for Elissa Fernandez and her three sons.

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Grad student ‘ambassadors’ offer free clean-energy lessons and DIY solar kits to K-12 students

GeekWire

Volunteering as a clean energy ambassador, UW PhD candidate Abbie Ganas led a virtual class via Google Meet with 25 middle school students enrolled in a south King County middle school. It includes: Videos, lesson plans, information on DIY solar kits, and reading materials for upper grades. Courtesy Abbie Ganas). CEI Photo).

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Remote learning at 1 year: Experts explain why the move to online education has been so painful

GeekWire

This crisis is the “result of the ongoing pandemic, which has been exacerbated by continued isolation, difficulty engaging with virtual learning, and lack of regular in-person interaction with educators, school personnel, mentors and peers,” states an emergency proclamation signed by the governor on Monday.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. Mark Zuckerberg (left) — in virtual reality avatar form — demonstrating how his company’s new AI tools allow you to create virtual environments by speaking what you want to see. Courtesy of Meta.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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How technology is trying to address bias in policing — and why experts say it won’t be enough

GeekWire

Axon’s in-car video technology for police. For example, transcripts of body camera videos that detect use of racial slurs will be automatically ranked higher for supervisor review. Related: As protests spread across the country, mobile video creates mosaic of violence and tool for change. . Axon Photo).

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