[blindkid] Bookshare - NIMAC News!

Fri Jan 30 20:48:03 UTC 2009

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
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>Bookshare and NIMAC Announcement
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>NIMAC books:
>
>To find NIMAC books, go to:
><http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/5d787704f2/0ae99e823c/8cec87bc2a>http://nimac.us
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><mailto:nimacrequest at bookshare.org>Then email us
>to request the book be added to Bookshare
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>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!
>
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>Best regards,
>
>The Bookshare Team
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