Enhanced depth imaging mode of OCT detects differences by glaucoma type

Enhanced depth imaging mode of OCT detects differences by glaucoma type

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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Is Retinopathy of Prematurity a Preventable Condition?

LinkedIn MESSAGES Kathy M wrote: I found this and thought you might be interested. -Kathy (Found on LinkedIn Today) Is Retinopathy of Prematurity a Preventable Condition? sooperarticles.com Retinopathy of prematurity is a medical condition that affects babies born before the 32nd week or pregnancy or babies with a very low birth weight. Around 16% of those children will develop the condition, caused by an abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye, which can lead to permanent blindness. (See more articles ») View Article | Join LinkedIn to become part of the world's largest professional network.

Fw: Stop Bullying. Make a Difference.

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Having trouble viewing this message? View it on our website. Dear Kathy, Thirteen million kids will be bullied in the U.S. this year. Three million students are absent each month because they feel unsafe in school. And bullying affects kids with special needs in a significant way: Sixty percent of students with disabilities report being bullied regularly compared with 25 percent of all students. Bullying is widespread, often goes unnoticed, and can have immediate and long-lasting consequences. The National Center for Learning Disabilities, along with our Special Needs Taskforce, is excited to partner with The Bully Project to raise awareness of America's bullying crisis—specifically how it affects children with special needs and their families. Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, BULLY is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary opening a window into the pained and often endangered lives of children who are bullied, those who engage in bullying behavior, and those who are bystanders, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders. Watch the documentary's trailer today and learn how you can help fight bullying and ensure that children with special needs are safe from the devastating consequences of bullying. Watch the Documentary Trailer In the coming weeks and months, we'll send you more information about how you can step in and step up against bullying. You can start now by working with us to create schools where everyone feels safe. Make a difference. Support NCLD's efforts against bullying by donating today. In gratitude, James H. Wendorf NCLD Executive Director P.S. Be sure to forward this email to a friend and share the BULLY trailer on Facebook and Twitter:     The National Center for Learning Disabilities is listed by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All gifts made to NCLD are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Unsubscribe │ Forward to a Friend     Meets all 20 BBB Charity Standards

LVB Show (Low Vision Bureau Official Podcast) posted a new episode on PodOmatic...

Subject: LVB Show (Low Vision Bureau Official Podcast) posted a new episode on PodOmatic...

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"Interview with Founder of Arkansas Acupuncture Center (Alternative treatmen for eye diseases)"

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Fw: Judge's Racist, Misogynist Email Targets Obama's Mom

The hate is getting ridiculous. There's no excuse for a statement like that. Makes me wonder what he thinks about the rest of us!

 ~K

A new message from your friends at People For the American Way. VIEW AS WEB PAGE  |  TELL A FRIEND  |  SUBSCRIBE Dear Kathy, UPDATE: Three right-wing state legislators in Montana have come to Judge Richard Cebull's defense, with one even ridiculously thanking Cebull for exercising his "freedom of speech." The judge's reckless and offensive email had nothing to do with free speech. A federal judge is free to hate the president and his policies, just as other Americans are. And he is free to privately tell his friends that, just as other Americans do. But Judge Cebull used his official government email address to make a statement that has now become very public. It is important that Americans see their judges as neutral arbiters, not as political figures. Therefore, it is imperative that Judge Cebull resign. Join the 60,000 activists who have already signed our petition demanding that Judge Cebull redesign -- please add you name now! If a football referee is known to have grossly insulted some of the teams, then acknowledges that he did so because he strongly dislikes them, would anyone want him refereeing a game they cared about? Would anyone trust his calls? Good referees are constrained in what they can say about the teams whose games they oversee, not because they don't have freedom of speech, but because they accept voluntary constraints as part of their job description. With Judge Cebull, we are talking not about the integrity of a sports league, but rather the integrity of the American justice system. Judge Cebull is unfit to judge. Speak out now. And then please help spread the word. Thank you for all that you do. -- Ben From: Ben Betz, People For the American Way Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Subject: Judge's Racist, Misogynist Email Targets Obama's Mom "The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan. I didn't send it as racist, although that's what it is. Is sent it out because it's anti-Obama." -- Judge Cebull A Tea Party federal Judge was so blinded by his hate for President Obama that he used his official email to forward a disgusting "joke" attacking the president's deceased mother. Check out the email and sign our petition telling the judge to step down now. Dear Kathy, Have you heard about the Montana federal judge who got caught forwarding a disgusting racist, misogynist "joke" about President Obama's deceased mother? Sign our petition now telling him to do the right thing and RESIGN his post as chief judge of the Federal District Court for Montana. Judge Richard Cebull, the chief Federal District Court judge in Montana, admitted that sending the email to his personal contacts -- from his official email account on a government computer -- showed "terrible judgment" and that he was aware that the joke was racist, but that he did not send it because it was racist. He sent it because it was "anti-Obama." And, in his eyes, that made it okay. See the outrageous email he sent and sign our petition urging Judge Cebull to step down now. Judge Cebull submitted himself for disciplinary review to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Montana, and wrote a seemingly sincere apology to the president in which he said, "Honestly, I don't know what else I can do." Well that's easy -- he can and should resign. Last week, PFAW called for his resignation. This week, we were joined by editorial boards both in Montana and at the New York Times. Please add your voice to the call for Judge Cebull's resignation too. See Judge Cebull's shocking email and sign PFAW's petition now. Judge Cebull's hatred for the president is so extreme that he forwarded on a very personal attack that he KNEW was racist and tasteless. He did it because it was, in his words, "anti-Obama." Welcome to the Tea Party Era. The Far Right's hate rhetoric against this president has created an environment where even people who should know better consider racist, misogynist attacks ... even attacks on his deceased mother, fair game. Nothing is out of bounds if its purpose is to denigrate or hurt the president. You've heard the term "snow blind" -- Judge Cebull was "hate blind." And that hate blindness surely led to his transgression. Regardless of what led to it, his action clearly shows a severe lack of judgment, potential bias, and a temperament unbecoming of a federal judge. He needs to step down now. Sign our petition now urging Judge Cebull to resign. Thank you for standing up against Tea Party extremism and right-wing hate. -- Ben Betz, Online Strategy Manager P.S. Rep. John Conyers has now called for a congressional hearing "to consider the full ramifications of Judge Cebull's conduct on integrity of the federal judiciary," and to consider possible "further investigation or possible legislative action." Congressional attention is certainly warranted and welcome, but Judge Cebull should take it upon himself to do the right thing and step down. pfaw.org  |  privacy policy  |  subscribe   |  unsubscribe  |  contact us | Facebook  |  Twitter  |  YouTube 1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005-5002, 202-467-4999

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