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Permalink Reply by Tammy Stephens on March 9, 2008 at 12:25pm

Attached is a copy of the PowerPoint presentation of this session. We hope you will use this site to continue the conversation.

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• Minding the Gap.pdf, 205 KB

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Permalink Reply by Antwon Lincoln on March 10, 2008 at 1:36am

Tammy it was great meeting you at CUE 2008.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Stephens on March 16, 2008 at 3:41pm

This week I attended the CoSN conference. I met Valerie Chernek from Don Johnston. She shared some things her company is doing. One of the things they are doing is partnering with Bookshare.org to provide a free text reader for students.

Beginning at the start of the 2008-2009 school year, qualified students will have the opportunity to use Don Johnston's Read:Outloud Booshare.org Edition text reader (Windows Version) to access more than 36,000 books, magazines and newspapers in the Bookshare.org library.

The Read:Outloud Bookshare.org Edition text reader offers embedded reading comprehension strategies and instruction supports that align with state educational standards. The text reader software includes audio feedback, electronic highlighting and note-taking features that allow students to effectively capture ideas. A Mac version will follow in 2009.

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Permalink Reply by Jose Rodriguez on March 18, 2008 at 11:25pm

Great Session. Your tips were a great starting point for school in looking at technology planning especially now with the budget crisis hitting our schools. I live blogged your session at; http://woodennickelz.blogspot.com/2008/03/leveraging-technologies-f...

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Stephens on March 19, 2008 at 10:45am

Do you think there is enough interest in to start a new SIG on this topic?

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