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Roger Holt

AccessText Network - college textbook accessibility - 0 views

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accessibility textbooks electronic books

shared by Roger Holt on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • A goal of the AccessText Network is to provide college students access to resources on how to most effectively use alternative (electronic) textbooks and technology in the classroom as well as the study environment. Students are encouraged to join the AccessText mailing list to receive future announcements on student resources. The student section of our site is scheduled to launch summer 2009. The AccessText website will contain resources for students such as: How do I receive textbooks in alternative (electronic) formats? How do I use alternative (electronic) textbooks? What technology is needed to access electronic textbooks? What is the best electronic textbook format for me? Where can I get access to reading technology?
Roger Holt

Textbooks ditched at Clearwater High as students log on to Kindles - St. Petersburg Times - 0 views

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e-reader Kindle textbooks

shared by Roger Holt on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Here's one way to lighten a student's backpack: say goodbye to textbooks.Clearwater High School next year will replace traditional textbooks with e-readers. The gadgets will be fully loaded with all the textbooks students need, minus all the paper.
Roger Holt

Digital Textbook Playbook | FCC.gov - 0 views

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electronic books digital books digital textbooks textbooks FCC

shared by Roger Holt on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • 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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textbooks

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

Get Accessible Textbooks for your Children - Webinar - Sept. 22, 2010 - 0 views

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Accessibility books webinar

shared by Terry Booth on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Attend the upcoming Bookshare webinar titled, “How to get my child accessible textbooks,” and learn: What is the NIMAC? Who is eligible for NIMAC textbooks? How do students get access to NIMAC textbooks through Bookshare? What can parents do to help qualified children? This webinar takes place Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM MT. Attend the live broadcast or sign up to receive a post-webinar recording. Register today!
Sierra Boehm

2013 K-12 Materials Exhibitor Fair - Missoula - Feb. 19, 2013 - 0 views

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curriculum education educators K-12

shared by Sierra Boehm on 16 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Sierra Boehm on 16 Feb 13
     
    Click here to view the flier for this event

    What:
    Come and meet vendors of K-12 textbooks and education materials. Areas of emphasis will be Common Core Mathematics, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and some Science. Networkk with vendors and recieve free samples. When:
    Tuesday, February 19, 2013
    9:00 am - 4:00 pm Mountain Where:
    Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula
    200 S. Pattee St.
    Missoula, MT 59802 Cost:
    Free to all educators Contact:
    Christine Kuschel, Ed.D.
    Missoula, MT ASCD President
    6990 Linda Vista Blvd
    Missoula, MT 59803
    (406) 251-5885 (voice)
    (406) 251-4189 (fax)
    CKuschel@aol.com
Meliah Bell

AIMing for Achievement: Why Your Child with Disabilities May Need Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) - Webinar - Oct. 31, 2012 - 0 views

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children webinar disabilities Parents

shared by Meliah Bell on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Meliah Bell on 24 Oct 12
     
    Click here to register for the webinar

    What:
    Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) provide the same content as traditional classroom materials such as textbooks, but deliver the information in a way that students with print-based disabilities can use more easily. Parents, family members, Parent Center staff, and others are invited to attend this webinar to learn about a 4-step process that can be used to determine whether a child with a disability needs AIM and how to work with the school to access them. Presenters from the National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials at CAST and PACER Center will use scenarios of children with different types of disabilities to provide examples of how the AIM decision making process works.

    When:
    12pm - 1pm
    Oct. 31, 2012 System Requirements:
    PC-based attendees
    Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
    Mac®-based attendees
    Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
    Mobile attendees
    Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet If you have any questions please contact:
    gretchen.godfrey@pacer.org
Terry Booth

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

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information technology webinar

shared by Terry Booth on 13 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • 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
Sierra Boehm

Reading Across the Content Areas in Middle/High Schools - Bozeman - Sept. 25, 2013 - 0 views

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Montana reading educators

shared by Sierra Boehm on 11 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Sierra Boehm on 11 Sep 13
     
    Register for this event
    Course # 3237 - 6 OPI Renewal Units

    What:
    It is well known among secondary teachers that an increasing number of students are ill equipped to read and comprehend the textbooks designed for proficient secondary readers.  Reading instruction is a responsibility shared by all teachers, regardless of level or content. Educators who accept this idea are already a step ahead - but for secondary teachers who may have never had the opportunity to learn how to teach basic reading strategies, the task is daunting.  This session will examine Before, During, and After reading strategies that can be applied in all content area classrooms and support increased comprehension of the text. When all subject area teachers have students use common strategies, it leads to greater independence, more responsibility in the learning, and increased student outcomes for all students.

    When:
    Wednesday, September 25, 2013
    8:30 am - 3:30 pm Mountain

    Where:
    Bozeman Public Library
    626 E. Main
    Bozeman, MT

    Cost:
    No cost
Roger Holt

Education Week: Social-Emotional Needs Entwined with Students' Learning, Security - 0 views

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schools social emotional needs

shared by Roger Holt on 15 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Students' ability to learn depends not just on the quality of their textbooks and teachers, but also on the comfort and safety they feel at school and the strength of their relationships with adults and peers there.
Roger Holt

Leo Kanner's 1943 paper on autism - - 0 views

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autism

shared by Roger Holt on 26 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Kanner was born in Austria and educated in Berlin. He came to the U.S. in 1924. In 1930, he moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he founded the first child psychiatry clinic in the country. Based largely on his clinical experience, he then wrote a textbook that defined the field of child psychiatry. His humanism is evident in his lifelong fight against the abuse of children with autism and intellectual disability, and his enduring concern for their families. He also made extraordinary efforts to help physicians and scientists escape from Nazi-controlled territories.
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

shared by Roger Holt on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • 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. 
Roger Holt

Oh SAMHSA, Where Art Thou? - Children's Mental Health Network - 0 views

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SAMHSA Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 16 May 14 - No Cached
  • I have a confession to make. Until about a year ago, I had no idea what SAMHSA was. I had never even heard of it. My son has struggled with serious behavioral issues for more than nine years, which we now know are caused by his bipolar disorder. We were working with a small army of social workers, counselors, school personnel, psychiatrists, therapists—and I was well-versed in a small textbook of acronyms like IEP, SMI, ADHD, ODD, ADA, etc. But not one time was SAMHSA or any of its programs ever mentioned to me as a resource.
Roger Holt

Planet of the Blind: Higher Education's Studied Indifference to People with Disabilities Reflects the Rehab Model Ad Nauseum - 0 views

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accessibility opinion

shared by Roger Holt on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • There's a great article over at Getting Hired dot Com about the lawsuit that's been filed against Arizona State University by several blindness advocacy groups. The issue has to to with ASU's decision to provide its students with the Kindle Reader as a means of accessing textbooks--and yes, the Kindle is still inaccessible to blind people. I'll leave aside for the time being the relative technical issues involved in making the Kindle accessible for the talking points are tedious. Trust me, the Kindle can be made to talk without difficulty save for the fact that it needs a more expensive "out of the box" operating system.
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

YouTube videos help stumped students - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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video youtube students education

shared by Roger Holt on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • Earl Woodruff, an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, says YouTube videos can often summarize 10 pages of a textbook in five minutes. Not only do students spend less time on the concept, they’re often more engaged, he says.
Roger Holt

Audiobooks from RFB&D Are Now Accessible on the Mac | Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - 0 views

www.rfbd.org/...vobId__2895

audiobooks RFB&D Macintosh technology

shared by Roger Holt on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic® (RFB&D®), the nation’s largest provider of educational audio textbooks, announced that its entire collection is now accessible on Mac as well as Windows operating systems through the introduction of RFB&D ReadHear,
Roger Holt

RFB&D: FREE AudioAccess Individual Membership For Any Qualified Student! - 0 views

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audio books Learning Disabilities RFB&D

shared by Roger Holt on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Beginning on January 26, 2009, through January 25, 2010, any student with a qualified learning or print disability in the U.S. can sign up for 12 months of free access to RFB&D's CV Starr Learning Through Listening® Library of more than 46,000 textbooks and literature, via Internet download. This special offer, in celebration of RFB&D's 60th anniversary, is made possible by the generous contributions of RFB&D's donors and major funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Roger Holt

100 Useful Links for eBook Lovers - Online Courses - 5 views

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ebooks e-book books

shared by Roger Holt on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • You already know that the Internet is one of the most convenient, effective means of researching and finding information for your classes, but did you know that in some cases it can replace all of your hefty textbooks and reading assignments too? With ebooks, you can read, stream, and listen to lessons, classic literature, poetry and reference books on the Internet or your mobile device. Here are 100 useful links for ebook lovers.
Roger Holt

Special students and others find inclusion pays dividends - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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inclusion education schools

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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