[blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!

Fri Jan 30 23:11:21 UTC 2009

Hello, Carol,

Well, she works for Bookshare, but not the NIMAC division.  There are many 
areas of Bookshare.org, and she is employed full-time.in another 
division/area of the company.  She stays on top of all of it, though, and I 
forwarded her the discussion from the list to talk about with work.  She 
will be attending Washington Seminar representing Bookshare - at the student 
seminar, as well as other vision-related seminars (including C-Sun coming up 
in March in L.A.).  Btw, she loves her job - big time!  :))   Something we 
can all hope for each of our children!

Kathy
Arizona

P.S.  To address those speaking about their children's love of languages, 
Allison did 6 years of Spanish, 3 years of French, and a year of Japanese - 
it can be done!  I can tell you honestly, that most of the kids starting out 
in college will, in the 1st. two years of attending, will change their 
majors several times.  She loved teaching and languages VERY much, but ended 
up with a B.S. degree in Women's Studies (yes, she's my Gloria Steinem), and 
ended up getting a job that includes 3 huge passions of hers:   Lots & lots 
of books & reading, assistive technology (everywhere!),  and traveling all 
over the country!  I guess things work out, but I do know volunteering, 
making acquaintances at our conventions, and positive net-working skills are 
almost as important as any plan of study in undergrad school.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Castellano" <carol_castellano at verizon.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!

Kathy,
Is Allison still working on that project?
Carol

At 08:31 PM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
>Yes.  This applies to anyone in K-12.  The textbooks are both available in 
>DAISY & Braille formats......meaning, they can be read on a Braille Note. 
>If you have more questions email:   nimacrequest at bookshare.org.
>
>The more people using this, the better the program will become!
>
>
>Kathy
>President
>POBC - AZ
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Jaquiss" 
><rjaquiss at earthlink.net>
>To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
><blindkid at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!
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>
>Hello Eric and list:
>
>     I believe you are correct. The braille files could be read on a
>BrailleNote or other device, or used to emboss a braille copy. It will be
>interesting to see how well this actually works.
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "DrV" <icdx at earthlink.net>
>To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)"
><blindkid at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!
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>Does this mean that Middle & High School textbooks will be available for
>downloading to a braille noting device?
>Eric
>(PS: Sorry, about the misfired messages.)
>
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bookshare.org (by way of David 
>Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)"
><Bookshare.org at mail.vresp.com>
>To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 16:36
>Subject: [blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!
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>
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/f8a1a1dc74>
>Bookshare: Books Without Barriers
>
>
>Bookshare and NIMAC Announcement
>
>NIMAC books:
>
>To find NIMAC books, go to:
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/8cec87bc2a>http://nimac.us
>
>
><mailto:nimacrequest at bookshare.org>Then email us
>to request the book be added to Bookshare
>
>Dear David Andrews:
>
>Have you heard the good news? There is a simple
>new NIMAC process that will enable Bookshare to
>provide NIMAC books to your students in a week or
>less at no cost, thanks to funding from the U.S.
>Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
>
>You can now name Bookshare as one of your
>Authorized Users (AU) at the NIMAC. You need to
>sign an updated NIMAC coordination agreement,
>which the NIMAC recently sent directly to all
>NIMAC state coordinators, and then appoint
>Bookshare as an AU. The new coordination
>agreement is available online at the NIMAC's
>website at:
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/07a24a3dec>http://www.nimac.us/2009_NIMAC_COORD.DOC.
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>
>Then, when one of your students needs a book:
>    * Any public school staff person (including
>classroom teachers, special educators and
>librarians) can send an email to
><mailto:nimacrequest at bookshare.org>nimacrequest at bookshare.org
>requesting the book after confirming that it's in
>the NIMAC at:
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/64f515c348>http://nimac.us.
>We just need to know the title, author, publisher and/or ISBN number.
>    * We'll download the book, convert it into
>accessible digital text formats (DAISY and BRF)
>within a week and let the requestor know the book is in Bookshare.
>    * The requestor logs into their Bookshare
>account and downloads the book for a qualified
>student with an IEP. Two different accessible
>software packages that read the books are also
>available free for download, as well as high quality synthetic speech.
>
>After you send the AU request to the NIMAC, we
>will inform those educators in your jurisdiction
>who are Bookshare Members about the process and
>we'll include the information in communications
>to appropriate personnel in all districts, regardless of Bookshare
>membership.
>
>Together, let's get accessible textbooks flowing
>smoothly from the NIMAC to students in a timely manner!
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>The Bookshare Team
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/1303295a4d>
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