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Register Now for the Annual NJAET Conference
Registration is now open for the Annual NJAET EdTech Conference. Click here to register & Click here for workshop session descriptions.
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Conference FeeRegistration Fee = $110 Note: For registration after October 1 and on-site registration the cost = $135. Conference ScheduleMeals and Exhibits will be located in the Casino. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
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Current Grant Opportunities
| GrantsAlert.com is a Bi-Weeekly Recap of the most current K-12 Funding and Grants Alerts. For more complete information on all of the grant opportunities below and more funding and grant opportunities go to: www.grantsalert.com. And if you are looking for quick fundraising ideas, please click here and you’ll find some excellent ideas from their partner Efundraising.com. | |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Corporate |
| Source: | Samsung Electronics America |
| Program: | Samsung Hope for Education Program |
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As a global technology leader, Samsung Electronics America believes in good corporate citizenship. Our worldwide charitable efforts to give back to the communities that nurture us reflect this ideal. Our Hope for Education program illustrates this belief. Hope for Education was created by Samsung in 2004 to support U.S. schools K-12 with the latest technology products to assist in the educational process. Each year the program challenges students, teachers, parents or anyone who knows of a school in need to write an essay regarding the importance of technology in education, and how it can benefit a school in their community. Essays are evaluated by an independent judging committee, and winners earn various awards of Samsung products for their designated school. In the four years since its inception, the program has awarded more than 250 U.S. schools with over $7,000,000 in Samsung electronics and Microsoft software. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | RGK Foundation |
| Program: | RGK Foundation Education Grants |
| Purpose: | RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health. The Foundation’s primary interests within Education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education (particularly mathematics, science and reading), teacher development, literacy, and higher education. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Kids in Need Foundation |
| Program: | 2008 Kids In Need Teacher Grants |
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The purpose of the grants is to provide funds for classroom teachers who have innovative, meritorious ideas. Your project may qualify for funding if it makes creative use of common teaching aids, approaches the curriculum from an imaginative angle, or ties nontraditional concepts together for the purpose of illustrating commonalities. Innovation and merit account for 40% of the evaluation. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | American School Board Journal, the National School Boards Association, and Sodexo School Services |
| Program: | 2009 Magna Awards |
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The Magna Awards is a national recognition program co-sponsored by American School Board Journal, the National School Boards Association, and Sodexo School Services that honors school board best practices and innovative programs that advance student learning. Magna nominations are judged according to three enrollment categories (under 5,000 enrollment; 5,000-20,000 enrollment; and over 20,000 enrollment) with one Grand Prize Winner in each category. Each Grand Prize Winner receives a $3,500 contribution from Sodexo School Services. There are five additional winners and five honorable mention winners within each enrollment category. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | AASA, National School Public Relations Association and Blackboard Connect Inc |
| Program: | Connect-ED Leadership Through Communication Award |
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Sponsored in partnership by AASA, National School Public Relations Association and Blackboard Connect Inc., the Connect-ED Leadership Through Communication Award honors those who recognize that communication is a critical component of leadership and who exhibit an ongoing commitment to incorporating communication into their strategic thinking and their daily operations. The award recognizes the leadership of outstanding superintendents and public relations/communications professionals who, along with their teams, improve communication within their school systems and communities. Typically, one winning school system is chosen. Blackboard Connect Inc. will donate $10,000 to the scholarship fund of the winning school system, to be awarded to a student or students majoring in communications. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | American Association of School Administrators |
| Program: | 2009 National Superintendent of the Year Program |
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Now in its 22nd year, the National Superintendent of the Year Program pays tribute to the talent and vision of the men and women who lead our nation’s public schools. This program is sponsored by ARAMARK Education, ING and AASA. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Pay It Forward Foundation |
| Program: | Pay It Forward Mini-Grants |
| Purpose: | Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time-only service-oriented projects identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community. Projects must contain a “pay it forward” focus - that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially - to be considered in the grant making process. |
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| Entered: | Jul 22nd, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | LEGO Children’s Fund |
| Program: | LEGO Children’s Fund Grants Program |
| Purpose: | The LEGO Children’s Fund will provide quarterly grants for programs, either in part or in total, with a special interest paid to collaborative efforts and in providing matching funds to leverage new dollars into the receiving organization. We will give priority consideration to programs that both meet our goals and are supported in volunteer time and effort by our employees. |
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| Entered: | Jul 20th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Reader’s Digest Foundation |
| Program: | Reader’s Digest Foundation “Make it matter” |
| Purpose: | Make it Matter” is a new initiative of the Reader’s Digest Foundation. The Foundation will give away $1 million to nonprofit organizations based on inspiring stories submitted by the public.
Every month for ten months, Reader’s Digest will choose one individual whose story of giving back serves as an inspiration to others. For each story, the Reader’s Digest Foundation will donate $100,000 to a nonprofit organization that is associated either with the story or the cause. These individuals and their stories of giving back will appear every month in the new “Make it Matter” column in Reader’s Digest and on rd.com, beginning with the April issue. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy |
| Program: | Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Grants Program |
| Purpose: | The Foundation’s grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects that are designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Best Buy |
| Program: | Best Buy Teach Award program |
| Purpose: | technology into the curriculum to engage students and make learning fun. As a company, Best Buy believes that when technology is used effectively it can inspire children and have a positive impact on their ability to learn.
The Best Buy Teach Award program recognizes creative uses of interactive technology in K-12 classrooms. Winning programs focus on kids using technology to learn standards-based curriculum, rather than on teaching students to use technology or educators using technology that children aren’t able to use hands-on. The purpose of the Best Buy Teach Award program is to reward schools for the successful interactive programs they have launched using available technology. Please do not be discouraged from applying if your school does not have the most current equipment. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Character Education Partnership (CEP) |
| Program: | National Schools of Character (NSOC) |
| Purpose: | Every year, the Character Education Partnership (CEP) names approximately 10 public and private schools and districts (K–12) as National Schools of Character (NSOC) for their outstanding work in character education. The awards program honors these exemplars, showcase their work, and facilitates their leadership in the field of character education.
National Schools of Character winners receive a banner and an engraved award at the annual CEP National Forum on Character Education in October in the Washington, DC area. Winners also receive national and local press coverage, and CEP features the NSOC in its annual book and on the CEP website. In addition, award recipients have the right to use the NSOC awards name and logo. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Mockingbird Foundation |
| Program: | Mockingbird Foundation Grants Program |
| Purpose: | The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. (”Mockingbird”) offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that effect improvements in areas of importance to the Phish fan community. Our programmatic focus is music education for children, defined as follows:
Education: Education may include the provision of instruments, texts, and office materials, and the support of learning space, practice space, performance space, and instructors/instruction. Mockingbird is particularly interested in projects that foster self-esteem and free expression, but does not typically fund music therapy which is not education or music appreciation which does not include participation. Children: Mockingbird is interested in targeting children eighteen years or younger, but will consider projects which benefit college students, teachers, instructors, or adult students. Mockingbird is particularly (though not exclusively) interested in programs which benefit disenfranchised groups, including those with low skill levels, income, or education; with disabilities or terminal illnesses; and in foster homes, shelters, hospitals, prisons, or other remote or isolated situations. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Lois Lenski Covey Foundation |
| Program: | Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Grants |
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The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, Inc. is a charitable institute whose purpose is to assist organizations in their efforts to provide books to children who might otherwise lack access to children’s literature. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | The National Eye Institute (NEI) |
| Program: | 2009 HEALTHY VISION COMMUNITY AWARDS |
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NEI recognizes the importance of strengthening the capabilities of community-based organizations by providing “seed money” to develop innovative and collaborative eye health education and promotion projects that have the potential for sustainability once funding ends. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation |
| Program: | Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation Grants Program |
| Purpose: | Our mission is to support educators in developing environmental curricula that integrate field activities and classroom teaching and that incorporate basic ecological principles and problem solving. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | A Little HOPE, Inc |
| Program: | A Little HOPE Grants Program |
| Purpose: | A Little HOPE is a not-for-profit public charity, recognized by the IRS under 501 (c)(3), which grants funds to organizations that provide bereavement support services and grief counseling to children and teens who have experienced the loss of a parent or loved one, regardless of the circumstances of the death. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Avon Foundation |
| Program: | Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund |
| Purpose: | The Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund is an initiative of Avon Products, Inc. with the goal to empower women and change our world by providing individuals with cash awards that will allow them to pursue an idea or project that empowers or supports women of all ages. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | Whirlpool Foundation |
| Program: | 2008 Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention Grant program |
| Purpose: | To recognize this motherly ingenuity, the 2008 Whirlpool® Brand Mother of Invention Grant will provide winning moms with the necessary business resources to help bring their ideas to life. |
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| Entered: | Jul 15th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | The Foundation for Technology Education and Pitsco/Hearlihy & Company |
| Program: | PITSCO/HEARLIHY/FTE GRANT: Excellence in Teaching Technology |
| Purpose: | Its purpose is to recognize and encourage the integration of a quality technology education program within the school curriculum |
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| Entered: | Jul 9th, 2008 |
| Type: | Foundations |
| Source: | TOSHIBA AMERICA FOUNDATION |
| Program: | TOSHIBA AMERICA FOUNDATION Over $5000 Grants for Grades7-12 |
| Purpose: |
TOSHIBA AMERICA FOUNDATION is a non-profit grantmaking organization dedicated to supporting science and mathematics education in the United States. TOSHIBA AMERICA FOUNDATION contributes to the quality of science and mathematics education by investing in projects designed by classroom teachers to improve instruction for students in grades K-12. |
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| Entered: | Jul 9th, 2008 |
| Type: | Federal |
| Source: | U.S Dept. of Education |
| Program: | Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs) |
| CFDA #: | 84.133A-11 |
| Purpose: | The purpose of the DRRP program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, by developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. DRRPs carry out one or more of the following types of activities, as specified and defined in 34 CFR 350.13 through 350.19: Research, training, demonstration, development, dissemination, and technical assistance. |
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| Entered: | Jul 9th, 2008 |
| Type: | Federal |
| Source: | U.S Dept. of Education |
| Program: | High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration |
| CFDA #: | 84.287N |
| Purpose: | The purpose of the High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration competition is to encourage the establishment or expansion of partnerships between supplemental educational services (SES) programs and 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21stCCLC) projects in order to increase the academic achievement of low-income students in Title I schools \1\ identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. Through this competition, the Department will fund projects that will serve as national models of how these two federally authorized after-school initiatives can be coordinated so that a greater number of students enroll in, participate in, and complete academic after-school services that improve their achievement in reading and mathematics. |
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Can’t get enough of the DEN’s amazing professional development events? Good! There is still time to register for a series of two-day conferences designed to enhance your use of Discovery Education’s digital media resources. The DEN Regional Conferences (August through October) are spread out all over the country so that we can reach as many STARs as possible.
Here are the details for the regional conference in our area.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
August 2-3
Monmouth University (West Long Branch, NJ)
Details:
Attendees must RSVP for a regional conference, be accepted, and attend both days. There is no registration cost associated with attending these two-day conferences. Additionally, DEN will provide your meals during conference hours. Travel costs are up to you.
Just like any other DEN experience, attendees will leave tired and energized at the same time. But most importantly during your two days you’ll be sharing and learning with other educators who are passionate about using technology in their classrooms. And, when it is all over, you’ll return with new skills that are guaranteed to help you reach your 21st century students.
You need to open the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference PDF in order to get the full details and register for the event.
You can visit the National Blog to learn about the other regional conferences.
heasulli’s daily diigo bookmarks 07/17/2008
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- very cool application! - post by possbeth
- Hi Lauren,
Thank you very much for posting this link. It´s really a “killer application” for language teachers. It´s a great tool for task-based language learning. I think it is a very easy and powerful way to publish task-outcomes in a 2.0 way
Regards,
Victoria - post by acastrillejo
heasulli’s daily diigo bookmarks 07/16/2008
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Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
- The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
The sport where You are the search engine - post by srcr–
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- The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
heasulli’s daily diigo bookmarks 07/15/2008
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What’s a podcast? Your own
audio broadcast, where you can easily record voice messages,
mix in your favorite music, and share it all for the world to hear. -
So easy your grandma could do it — it’s fun and FREE!
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Take a quick tour
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CoveritLive’s web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.
- Aplicación web que permite emitir podcast/comentarios/encuestas/etc en tiempo real.
- post by tobias_feijoo - A platform for liveblogging. For those of you going to NECC this year. Be looking for this…need to play with it but looks simple enough and the price is right…FREE. Can think of a 100 ways to use this in the classroom…can you?
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- Aplicación web que permite emitir podcast/comentarios/encuestas/etc en tiempo real.
Class- Please Make Sure Your Cell Phones are Turned ON!
Right now we are sitting in Hall Davidson’s opening keynote for the 2008 DEN Leadership Council Institute- It’s in your Pocket: How to Use Cell Phones in Your Classroom.
Qustion: What do YOU do in your classroom with cell phones?
Answer (for most of us): Mostly take them away!
Here are a few of his main points:
- Although the debate about cell phone use in schools is a good one, if we continue to try to ban them we are just fighting a losing battle. Why? Of all the stakeholders in our students’ education, who will be most vehement about ensuring those students have cell phones in their pockets? PARENTS!
- Who forbids cell phone use? The Taliban, and a High School near you (Even Fidel Castro came around!)
- 60% of U.S. homes don’t even have a land-line in their house anymore. One student said: “”Why should I have a phone where I’m not?”
- Education follows Business- Nokia (largest cell phone maker in the world) is currently rolling out IP video technology. There business plan is all about allowing buisness to know what’s going on in there buildings. They expect to see almost a 400% ROI in less than 15 months.
- Education Technology can follow business model by using video to control the outflow of information from their schools in a positive manner & allow everyone to know the GOOD things going on in our schools.
- Cell Phone Video can track students location
Some Mobile Media Solutions for Education:
- Qik.com allows live video feed from your cell phone (doesn’t work on all cell phone types yet- but it will soon…)
- Gcast.com can podcast phone conversations automatically to the web. What a great tool for primary source interviews!
- Jott.com can post text messages automatically to your Twitter account
- Polleverywhere.com will instantly take polls & post the results for you. The results even do live updating as you view them- very cool!
- You can update your mobile setting in YouTube to post video automatically from your cell phone.
Hall’s closing message about our students & cell phones: OUR “non-work” time has been “ruined” by mobile devices, why shouldn’t there’s be too?!
Right on Hall- Let’s get students to start to use mobile media tools in school for good, not just for “evil” 
heasulli’s daily diigo bookmarks 07/11/2008
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Top News - Schools lagging in use of digital assessments
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schools were found lacking in their use of digital assessment tools, SIIA said. K-12 schools in particular are focusing primarily on mandated testing procedures, which require that every student take the same test, instead of using computer-based adaptive testing, which can provide a much more detailed view of a student’s strengths and weaknesses.
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This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use
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It’s not a guide to using material people give permission to use, such as works using Creative Commons licenses. Anyone can use those works the way the owners say that you can.
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t’s not a guide to material that is already free to use without considering copyright. For instance, all federal government works are in the public domain, as are many older works. In most cases, trademarks are not an issue. For more information on “free use,” consult the document “Yes, You Can!” and copyright.cornell.edu.
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It’s not a guide to using material that someone wants to license but cannot trace back to an owner—the so-called
“orphan works” problem. However, orphan works are also eligible for fair use consideration, according to the principles detailed below.
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Wired Campus: American U. Researchers Publish Guidelines for Fair Use in Web Videos - Chronicle.com
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New guidelines released this week by researchers at American University’s Center for Social Media hope to help nonlawyers navigate the confusing world of U.S. copyright law and its “fair use” provision.
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Around the Web - Schools offer ’study abroad’ through Second Life
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Around the world, universities–and even the U.S. Department of State–are turning to online virtual worlds to create cultural exchanges, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
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In these immersive, 3-D environments, users from around the globe can collaborate in ways that were previously impossible.
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When a group at Ohio University in Athens created a video tour of the school’s virtual Second Life campus, Christopher Keesey expected that it would be, by and large, for the OU community. Yet while browsing YouTube, he found a copy of that same video tour translated into what he thinks was a Nordic language, possibly Danish.
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“If you learn about a culture … and your behavior changes in Second Life while you’re interacting with another culture, when you leave the virtual world these processes stay with you,”
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Although virtual-reality advocates say this digital realm is no match for real-life experiences, most argue that in the absence of traveling overseas, it is one of the best available means of cultural exchange…
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