Kurzweil 3000 Supports College Students with Learning Disabilities

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	Kurzweil 3000® and firefly support college students with learning disabilities
	See why community colleges across California choose Kurzweil 3000 - firefly to support their students. Kurzweil 3000® - firefly, the award-winning, research-based, assistive technology tool, has been helping learners of all ages with learning disabilities—those diagnosed with dyslexia, dysgraphia or other literacy challenges—to learn and succeed alongside their peers since 1996. The best just keeps getting better! New Disabled Student Services pricing for colleges and universities is now available. Affordable upgrade and conversion opportunities are also available for those customers with older versions of our software. Contact Sales and place your order today! Kurzweil 3000 Delivers Digital and Print File Accessibility • Direct access to Word, PDF, RTF, TXT, and more! • Scanning and reading of any print document • Output to DAISY 2 audio • Save to DAISY 3 • Integration with Bookshare and other online content resources • Read the Web using Internet Explorer® or Mozilla Firefox® • MathML support with MathPlayer™ from Design Science, Inc. • MP3 audio file creation for use with iPods, iPhones, and iPads Language Learning Supports • Multiple English and bi-lingual dictionaries • Google® Translator • American Heritage® Human Pronunciations • English and Spanish picture dictionaries • Scanning and recognition in multiple languages for the same file • Voice Note tool Research and Process Writing Functionalities • Brainstorm and Outline tools • Sticky notes • Mark-up extraction to outlines and column notes • Writing templates for common assignments • Auditory spell check • Word prediction • Thesaurus and online reference tools Our NEW web-based firefly product provides anytime, anywhere access to digital content with the most useful supports required by students, including: • Text-to-speech • Dictionary and translation tools • Highlighters Mac or PC? Never worry about which OS you need to support. Kurzweil 3000 Web License with firefly works on both platforms, at school, at home, wherever web access exists...at no extra cost. To learn more go online to Kurzweil 3000 - firefly Higher Education. Thanks for believing in Kurzweil 3000 - firefly. We appreciate your business.
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Fwd: Bookshare Action This Summer!

May 2012 In this Issue Summer Reading Contest! Mentor Awards and Special Recognition Announced Time to Locate Next Year's Textbooks Bookshare Books Now Available for MP3 Players Downloading Books is Easier by Half! Upcoming Webinars Bookshare Express Summer Book Suggestions And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson (k-3) Akiak A Tale of the Iditarod, by Robert J. Blake (1-6) Adaptation and Change on the Galapagos Islands, by Helen Sillett (4-8) Blind Mountain, by Jane Resh Thomaso (4-8) The Acorn People, by Ron Jones (6-12) The Prairie Traveler: The 1859 Handbook for Westbound Pioneers, by Randolph B. Marcy (9-12) Letters from High Latitudes, by Marques of Dufferin (9-12) Share and Connect Reading the Bookshare blog? Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Accessible Twitter. Summer Reading Contest! The Bookshare Express is our 4th annual summer reading contest. Get your students on board for one of this summer's most fun events! Bookshare members of every age, grade level, and country, including international members, are invited to read books about different places and share what they learned. For each submission, they can win great prizes like a tablet PC, mp3 players, and Read2Go apps! How can your students participate? Educators learn how to sign up your students for an Individual Membership Sign up to be notified when the contest launches in early June. Mentor Awards and Special Recognition Announced! As of today, approximately 370 Bookshare Mentors and Local Experts are doing their part to Let Reading Come Alive in their districts. Many went the "extra mile" and shared their activities with the Bookshare team. They also became eligible for prizes, including Read2Go licenses, MP3 players, gift cards for school supplies, and an iPad as a grand prize. Congratulations to Sallie Spencer who will receive an iPad for her work with children, teachers, and parents across all grade levels in Olivet, Michigan. Sallie will also be profiled in an upcoming Bookshare Blog. See the full list of winners here. Time to Locate Next Year's Textbooks Check the Bookshare library to see if next year's textbooks are available, if not, let us know by giving us us the title, author, an ISBN and we'll purchase the books, scan and proofread them over the summer so they're ready for you in the fall. Contact us Bookshare Books Now Available for MP3 Players to request yourBookshare. More good news! Bookshare now offers titles that can be downloaded and played on any MP3 player. When a title is requested for the first time, it may need to be converted to MP3. Delivery times will depend on the size of the book and the number of people waiting for MP3 book conversions. Note that MP3 audio files are best played on an MP3 player. Keep your eyes open for other formats that will be available in the future. Downloading Books is EBookshareHalf! Downloading Bookshare books is easier than ever. You are no longer required to enter a password (a second time) when unzipping your downloaded bookBooksharemply log into your Bookshare account, find the book you want, download, unzip and open with your Webinarsd reader. Upcoming Webinars Educators: Get Individual Memberships for Students! Wednesday, May 23rd, 1:30 p.m. PDT, 2:30 p.m. MDT, 3:30 p.m. CDT, 4:30 p.m. EDT Sign up here Bookshare to get Individual Bookshare Memberships for your students. Besides allowing students to participate in the Summer Contest, Individual Memberships: Enable students or parents to download books anywhere, anytime (and all summer long)! Allow stuBookshare'srents to install Bookshare's free reading tools on any computer. Promote independence as students learn they can download books themselves. Encourage students to read for pleasure, not just for school. Make it easier for stuappss to utilize ouriOSbile apps: Read2Go for iOS devices Go Read foBookshare devices. . Take Bookshare to College Thursday, May 24th, 12:00 p.m. PDT, 1:00 p.m. MDT, 2:00 p.m. CDT, 3:00 p.m. EDT Your student with print disabilities will be a step ahead if he or Booksharees at college as a Bookshare user. Learn how to help yoBooksharet get started with Bookshare, find popular titles as well as resources including how to get financial aid, and more. We'll also point you to the right resource at the school your college-bound student has selected.BookshareRegister here. Take the Bookshare Express to Anywhere this Summer. Questwww.bookshare.org/contactUswww.bookshare.org/contactUs.

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Bookshare Contest

Each year, our Summer Reading Contest encourages students to read for pleasure while out of school. Just by preparing your students for this year's summer reading contest, you can take part in a contest of your own and earn a chance to win one of several great prizes!



To participate in the Summer Contest, a student must have an Individual Membership in Bookshare. For every student in your school or district who has one by May 31st, 2012, your organization will receive one entry in our educator contest. The more students for whom you get Individual Memberships (learn how here or here), the more chances your organization will have to win!



HERE ARE THE PRIZES:

• Grand Prize: an iPad 2 (one only, a $399.99 value)

• First Prize: MP3 players (three total, one per organization, a $29.99 value)

• Second Prize: A free license to Read2Go (five total, one per organization, a $19.99 value)

• Third Prize: A $20 Staples gift card (five total, one per organization)

• Fourth Prize: A USB drive (five total, one per organization, a $12.99 value)







BENEFITS OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Besides enabling students to participate in the Summer Reading Contest, Individual Memberships:



• Enable students or parents to download books anywhere, anytime (and all summer long)!



• Allow students or parents to install Bookshare's free reading tools on any computer.



• Promote independence as students learn they can download books themselves.



• Encourage students to read for pleasure, not just for school.



• Make it easier for students to utilize our mobile apps: Read2Go for iOS devices, and Go Read for Android devices




Help your students, and you just might win a prize. Best of luck! Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.


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Bookshare: Training Resources Galore!

March 8, 2012 In this Issue Find Your Local Expert » Website Updates » Upcoming Webinars » New Training Resources » Bookshare at Home » Share and Connect Like this? Share with a friend! You can also keep up with the latest and greatest from Bookshare on the Bookshare blog, Facebook, Twitter or Accessible Twitter. In case you missed Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2nd, it's never too late to enjoy his stories with your students! Oh, the Places You Will Go! My Many Colored Days The Lorax Dr. Seuss and His Stories The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss Dr. Seuss: Young Author and Artist (Childhood of Famous Americans Series) Introducing Your Bookshare Local Experts... Are you looking for a local contact to help you implement Bookshare at your school or district? Are you looking for some consultation on how best to use Bookshare in the classroom? We now have a list of Bookshare Local Experts who are available to provide Bookshare consultation. These are teachers who use Bookshare regularly and have some wonderful tips to share. If you are interested in contacting your local expert please email: kristinac@benetech.org and we will connect you. Website Updates Bookshare's product management and engineering teams have been hard at work to make Bookshare even better. This week, for example, you may have noticed the addition of a "My Book History" link to your account task bar (visible after you log in). For organizational members especially, we recommend viewing My Book History in Table View rather than List View. Then you can see the books you've downloaded as well as sort them by title, date downloaded, and student (organizational memberships only). You can also select a book title in order to download that book again. Learn more about this update, plus other helpful recent and future improvements, from the recording of our "Bookshare's Latest and Greatest" webinar. The recording is just under one hour in duration, but that includes about 20 minutes of Q&A. Upcoming Webinars This month we will be offering two partner webinars. Sign up today and learn about the variety of technology available to your students. AT Webinar: Bookshare and Texthelp Wednesday, March 14, 12:00 p.m. PDT, 1:00 p.m. MDT, 2:00 p.m. CDT, 3:00 p.m. EDT Join Bookshare and Texthelp to learn how to read Bookshare books using Read&Write GOLD and the recently launched Webapps, including the new eBook Reader. Sign up here. Thursday, March 22, 12:00 p.m. PDT, 1:00 p.m. MDT, 2:00 p.m. CDT, 3:00 p.m. EDT Join Bookshare and Cambium Learning Technologies to learn how to read Bookshare books using Kurzweil 3000 and the recently launched Webapp, Firefly. Sign up here. New Training Resources If you haven't discovered our new training resources then take a look! Now K-12 teachers can access a wide range of training materials to use with other teachers, parents and students. Take a peek. And for teachers-in-training at the post-secondary level we have a fantastic training section called Personnel Development Resource Materials. Find out more here. Bookshare at Home Don't forget to get your qualified students their own memberships for home use. This gives your students access to free technology and over 135,000 books! Watch this quick video and find out how easy it is to get them their own Bookshare memberships. Questions? Please contact us at http://ctsp0.vresp.com/c/?Benetech/10dbb09a83/4c3c4a90b9/5edf5a1173/utm_content=knl%40ebrschools.org&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=www%2Ebookshare%2Eorg%2FcontactUs&utm_campaign=Training Resources Galore%21. AT Webinar: Bookshare and Kurzweil

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