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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. She has 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, writing, and policy analysis, primarily in education.

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Innovative Communication Techniques for Individuals with Autism

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Our mission is to help others successfully implement research-based applied behavior analysis (ABA) techniques. VizZle provides a library of more than 14,000 lessons and the tools and media to customize them or create your own from scratch. We want every child with autism to receive effective instruction!

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Accessibility, Audio Texts, and the Persistence of Print

ProfHacker

The belief that the effort is too great considering the small percentage of students who use screen readers or need other assistive technologies is pervasive. To maximize study time I took books-on-CD out at the public library. Asking faculty to make their course materials accessible is challenging. We teach films and images.