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Digital Textbook Playbook | FCC.gov - 0 views

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  • The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators begin building rich digital learning experiences for students in districts across the country. The playbook offers information about determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and community broadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary device considerations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that have engaged in successful transitions to digital learning.
Roger Holt

Hunting the Whole Enchilada: 6 Excellent Sites for Free Digital Textbooks -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Roger Holt on 02 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Plug "digital resources for k12" into Google and you'll get a bazillion results (or maybe it just seems that way). Head to any resource site for teachers and you'll lose yourself in a miasma of links. Thinkfinity will link you to Smithsonian, which will direct you to HippoCampus, and onto Kahn Academy, and over to Curriki, and off to — well, you get the picture. As wonderful as those sites are, sometimes you don't want to spend all your planning time piecing together a school year's worth of lessons from a multitude of online sites. You just want the whole enchilada delivered in textbook form from which you can select the content you'll assign to your students. To that end we have hunted down the top sources for digital textbooks — all free. What you and your students do with them on the iPads and Chromebooks in your classroom is up to you.
Terry Booth

Technology to Capture and Organize What You Learn - Webinar - Aug. 21, 2012 - 0 views

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  • Terry Booth on 13 Aug 12
     
    Click here to register for this webinar What:
    Whether taking notes in class, gathering Web research, or creating a textbook study guide, student success relies on the ability to effectively capture and organize information from a variety of sources. This class will demonstrate tools that aid this "knowledge management" process, from notebook software, smartpens, and graphic organizers to everyday tech such as digital cameras and smartphone apps. Technology tools to be discussed and/or demonstrated include: Low-tech annotation aids (highlighters, stickies) PDF annotation software Notetaking pens (such as Livescribe, IRISPen) Digital notebooks (such as Microsoft OneNote) Literacy & learning software with built-in study tools (such as Kurzweil 3000) Cloud-based notes and organization (such as Evernote) When:
    Tuesday, August 21, 2012
    1:30 - 3:00pm Mountain
Terry Booth

NIMAC, Bookshare and Your Students: What's Next? - Webinar - Mar. 31, 2010 - 1 views

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adaptive technology webinar

shared by Terry Booth on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • What: The print, bound book is an educational barrier for many students with print disabilities. Because these students cannot read a print book, they require books in alternative formats such as DAISY and BRF (digital Braille). Books in accessible digital formats can remove the barriers and provide access to the general curriculum. In this webinar, you will learn about digital accessible books and how to get digital textbooks from the NIMAC (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Center). You'll also learn the services and benefits Bookshare offers to educators and qualified students.
Roger Holt

RFB&D is now Learning Ally! | Learning Ally, formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - 0 views

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Learning Disabilities blind reading audio books

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  • Founded in 1948 as Recording for the Blind, Learning Ally serves more than 300,000 K-12, college and graduate students, veterans and lifelong learners – all of whom cannot read standard print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Learning Ally’s collection of more than 70,000 digitally recorded textbooks and literature titles – downloadable and accessible on mainstream as well as specialized assistive technology devices – is the largest of its kind in the world. More than 6,000 volunteers across the U.S. help to record and process the educational materials, which students rely on to achieve academic and professional success. 
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Special students and others find inclusion pays dividends - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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shared by Roger Holt on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • At the Henderson school, where up to 35 percent of the 228 students have a disability, there are two certified teachers in every classroom — one in general, elementary education and one in special education. The school’s academic philosophy is that “it’s not the students who are disabled, but the curriculum,’’ and that it is the job of teachers and administrators to help students learn through digital textbook readers, visual arts, or movement.
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