Website Reviews

 Website Reviews 

Hopelink

1. Hopelink of Southern Nevada (Hopelink) is a Nevada nonprofit organization established in1991.

2. Goal is to provide services primarily in Henderson since that time, hope link has significantly expanded programs and services,

3. with programs which now serve Henderson, boulder city, and the larger LasVegas/Clark county community.

4. Hopelink's mission is to build a better community by preventing

homelessness, keeping families intact, and promoting self-sufficiency.

5. The two main departments of the agency are housing and basic needs and family support services.

6. Each with dedicated case managers who work with individuals and families to try to address the many areas of need clients face.

7. Housing services runs the gamut from emergency shelter to long-term subsidized housing,

8. with a focus on homelessness prevention and transition from homelessness.

9. Hopelink operates a special needs transportation brokerage for king and Snohomish counties, provides direct transportation services under contract to king county metro, and provides mobility management services for king

county.

10.Hopelink provides food banks, emergency financial assistance to assist low-income families, distributes federal dollars to those who need help with energy bills, and teaches energy conservation.

Digital literacy

1. The concept of digital literacy is used as an extension and explanation of the second digital divide

2. it has been found an effective tool to describe and measure the type of skills in which different groups of people vary as a function of certain structural.

3. contextual variables (for example, gender, race, socioeconomic level, income, place of origin).

4. In this sense, Hargittai (2002) refers to the differences in people’s online skills as the second digital divide.

5. This author carried out an empirical study in order to overcome shortcomings in the literature when studying the digital divide in terms of “haves” and “haves not” concerning Internet access.

6. More specifically, she stresses the need of bridging the gap in the literature between mere structural measures of access (first digital divide)

7. what people do online (second digital divide). The literature in this field has traditionally established a difference between the first and the second digital divide.

8. whether the use and access to computers or whether the use and access to the Internet.

9. Even though there is a research line based on analyzing the use of computers and of the Internet independently, we should acknowledge that they are linked together

 10 The first digital divide is more related to access to technology, while the second digital divide is in line with different types of technology use and the degree of competence in technology there is great dissemination of literature about what the digital divide entails:

YOUTUBE

1. Parents need to know that YouTube is a video-sharing site and app, and there are many videos on YouTube that may not be age-appropriate for kids.

2. The app includes a feature that lets you see how much time you've spent watching videos, and you can set reminders to turn off autopay and take a break.

3. The site is entirely user-generated and relies on its community to flag videos that violate YouTube's terms of service (mostly for, language, and hate speech).

4. For full reviews of the most popular channels, check out us. YouTube Reviews. Channel owners can also now distribute live content, and can launch livestreams at will, which are governed by YouTube rules.

5. This video-sharing site has easily secured its place in pop culture and is an incredibly mixed bag for kids. It offers so much to discover --

6. love -- in its comprehensive video library: Information. Education. Instruction. Entertainment. Distraction. Delight. Want step-by-step guided instructions on making dozens of styles of friendship bracelets?

7. Need to know how to create a unique Halloween costume? Want to show your kid what the robot from Lost in Space looked like or check out the Earth's solar system? You'll find that and much, much more here, including the latest viral videos of that kid or cat everyone is laughing about.

8. The beauty of YouTube is being able to see so much in one place at any given time. But that also makes it difficult to know what your kids are finding and viewing when you're not supervising.

9. Families can talk about appropriate content for kids to view. Since there are plenty of

items that are inappropriate for kids, how can you tell whether your kids are watching

videos that are safe for them?

10. What if they click on a suggested video that has mature content? If you're also interested in finding out what content kids are watching, make sure to check out our latest. Young Kids and YouTube research report.

Mango Languages

1. Mango Languages is an online language-learning app with a deal that seems too good to be true.

2. For about $18 per month, you can have access to everything in Mango's catalog, which includes more than 60 language programs.

3. It's also available for free through many public libraries.

4. What's the catch? While the very best language-learning apps are engaging and enjoyable, Mango isn't. The core material is tedious.

5. The app tells you new words and phrases and then asks you to recall them by giving you the English.

6. That's it. There are no multiple-choice questions, spelling quizzes, or even translation exercises in the other direction.

7. What's more, it's nearly impossible to us the program to learn a language with a different writing system because Mango Languages doesn't properly teach the characters.

8. Mango has an impressive catalogue of more than 70 languages. Many languages separate programs depending on the dialect, such as Europe French versus Canadian.

9. The languages offered are: Arabic (Egyptian, Iraqi, Levantine, ModernStandard), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Chaldean Aramaic, Cherokee,Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch,Dzongkha, English, Shakespearean English, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French(Canadian, European), German, Greek (Ancient, Koine, Modern), HaitianCreole, Hawaiian, Hebrew (Biblical, Modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo,Indonesian, Irish (Standard), Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latin,Malay, Malayalam, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Pirate, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Potawatomi, Punjabi (Pakistani), Romanian, Russian Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shanghainese, Slovak, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish(Latin American), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Tuvan,Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, and Yiddish.

10.For languages that are harder to find, you're not necessarily stuck with Mango. I highly recommend considering Pimsleur, which has programs for 50 languages. The hitch with Pimsleur is that it's almost all audio-based, so you don't practice reading and writing.

TED

TED is a video-based learning site that provides lectures and other talks from leaders in a myriad of fields. The talks are designed to inspire thought and promote learning

Review:  The site is a clearinghouse that offers presentations by the world's most inspired thinkers. It also acts as a community of curious people who are looking to engage with ideas and each other. Interested in what Andrew Stanton, the filmmaker behind Toy Story, thinks are the keys to good storytelling? Hear it from his own mouth. Perhaps you’d prefer to hear what Steve Jobs has to say about accomplishing goals. The Apple visionary’s address on the topic is here, too.

Science, technology, business and other categories provide a starting place to begin exploring the collective knowledge of TED. The site also recently launched a TED-Ed section just for educators.

iTunes:

review: Though Apple's music strategy is now more about its relatively new streaming service, Apple Music, its tried-and-true iTunes application is still best-in-class. In the latest iTunes update, the Apple Music section gets a new look to match that of the iOS version. In addition to all of the capabilities you've come to know and love in iTunes—the music player and store, movies, TV, iPhone syncing, books, iTunes U, podcasts, and Internet radio—it also includes the new Connect music-focused social network. iTunes is jam-packed with tools for media consumption, and it's unmatched by any competitor.

PBS literacy:

reveiw:As adult education programs transitioned to distance learning this spring, educators found that their familiar FastForward system already offered everything they needed to keep their students learning AND manage their programs. FastForward contains all subjects, pre and posttests, study plans, classroom and student management systems, reports and more. It is familiar, trusted, research-proven and effective.