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This free seminar explores added accessibility features found in Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard offers built-in accessibility tools and technologies, collectively termed Universal Access, designed to work together to address the unique needs of each student and the challenges of all types of learners. Join your colleagues in curriculum development and special education as we examine these elegant, innovative solutions for students with vision, hearing, and motor skills challenges. Learn how to break down the barriers to accessing information technology, as well as how to maximize independence, participation and productivity of students with special needs.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Spectacular Event Center
Cameo Ballroom
395 Griffin Road
Bangor, ME 04401
Register for February 9th session
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Hilton Garden Inn
Eagle Room
5 Park Street
Freeport, ME 04032
Register for the February 10th session
Maine121.org is dedicated to providing professional development support and resources to the teachers of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI).
The blog is organized into 5 lenses through which we will focus our postings, podcasts, and webcasts: 1) Making Meaning, 2) Writing Process, 3) Research Process, 4) UDL & Accessibility, and 5) Digital Storytelling and Media Production. Each week we will feature at least one of these lenses in a live webcast.
Recordings will be available for download from our iTunes U site, and webcast notes and additional information will be posted here at Maine121.org.
Here are upcoming events on Maine 121
AIM 101 - Accessible Instructional Materials
The Course will equip participants with an awareness of: the barriers presented by “traditional” print instructional materials; an understanding of the importance of flexible and accessible learning resources; pertinent Special Education and Civil Rights legislation; Copyright Law; national, state, and local systems of materials acquisition and classroom use.
AIM 102 - Preparing Accessible Instructional Materials for Students with Print Impairments
This course is designed to acquaint elementary and secondary stakeholders with an understanding of how to prepare AIM for students with print impairments.
The Moving Forward with Technology webinar series offers key information about implementing technology in education. Sessions are presented live and online by national leaders in the field. The series is an outreach collaboration between Don Johnston Incorporated and CITEd.
Cambium Learning Technologies offer a series of Free Webinars, Regional Workshops, and OnLine Workshops on a variety of products including: Kurzweil 3000, Classroom Suite v.4, IntelliKeys and IntelliTools.
More information about Free Webinars.
More about Regional Workshops.
Recorded: December 10, 2009 - Archived version coming soon.
VoiceOver is known as Apple’s built-in screen reader, but can be better described as an accessible interface for everyone. Not to be confused with text to speech, VoiceOver provides voice description of all onscreen elements, features a caption panel, and allows users to control their computer using only the keyboard. Our guest, Steve Sawczyn of AT Maine, demonstrated why VoiceOver is a tool that all educators should get to know. Most importantly, we discussed how we can improve our UDL practices by understanding the unique learning needs of students who are blind and have low vision.
Archived version coming soon.
Here are upcoming events on Maine 121
Duration: 1 hour
Learn more about Bookshare and how Parents and Parent Centers in Maine can help students with print disabilities get an equal chance at learning. In this webinar, the following was discussed:
Information about Archived version here - Please contact Bookshare at events@bookshare.org for an accessible version of this webinar.
Duration: 1 hour
Host(s): Mario Oliveros
Meeting Description: Bookshare's online library and free assistive reading tools for the students with print disabilities. Specific questions addressed:
Information about Archived version here - Please contact Bookshare at events@bookshare.org for an accessible version of this webinar.
The free presentations covered:
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Host(s): Kristina Cohen
Information about Archived version here - Please contact Bookshare at events@bookshare.org for an accessible version of this webinar.
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Access CITEd is offering FREE (archived) Webinar presentations from some of the nation's leaders in accessible instructional materials:
NIMAS 101: What You Need to Know
Presenter: Chuck Hitchcock, M.Ed., Director, NIMAS Technical Assistance Center
What is NIMAS? This presentation provides an overview of NIMAS language within IDEA 2004, the NIMAS regulations, policies related to implementation, TA and the role of the NIMAC (the national source file repository). (recorded November 2006)
NIMAS Implementation Issues and Solutions
Presenters: Chuck Hitchcock, M.Ed., Director, NIMAS Technical Assistance Center; and Ruth Ziolkowski, MBA, President of Don Johnston, Inc.
How does NIMAS affect you as an educator? What are the implementation issues schools and districts are facing and what solutions are being tried? Learn about solutions that are working around the country. (recorded October 2007)
Accessible Instructional Materials 101
Presenters: Joy Zabala, Project Manager, AIM Consortium; and Diana Foster Carl, Special Projects Coordinator, AIM Consortium
What are core-related instructional materials, specialized formats, and print disabilities? How do teams decide if specialized formats are needed? Explore the issues related to accessible instructional materials. (recorded February 2009)
Other Topics include:
To access these FREE webinars, go to the CITEd Webinar Archive
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