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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