Bookshare: New Contest, Cool Prizes, Starting Soon!

Bookshare Made a Difference Contest How has Bookshare helped YOU? Follow us! Forward this message to a friend

Has Bookshare made a difference in your life? Enter the "Make a Difference Contest" and a chance to win awesome prizes! How does it work? Tell us in 150 words or less how Bookshare has helped you, your child, or students and inspire other people with print disabilities to read. What can you win? Grand prize: tablet of your choice! 2 Runner-up prizes: MP3 players When does the contest run? Monday, Dec. 3 - Sunday, Dec. 9 Want to be notified when it starts? Sign up to be notified!

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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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Visual Impairments Specialist Scotlandville Elementary http://lee.ebrschools.org/kathynicholslee
http://www.kathyskids.org
http://teacherweb.com/LA/RobertELeeHigh/MrsMichael/t.aspx
http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com

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.


Sincerely,


The Bookshare Team







Benetech

480 California Ave., Suite 201

Palo Alto, California 94306

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