My Deaf Family

Submitted by d411 on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 20:01.

No, not MY Deaf family! It's the name of a reality show about a hearing teenager whose whole family is Deaf. The show is produced by Marlee Matlin, award winning actress who is also Deaf. Go check it out, and spread the word! http://www.youtube.com/mydeaffamily

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Show 71 - Part 2 of 3 with Ron Stewart on Accessible Instructional Materials

Submitted by d411 on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 02:01.

Listen to Show 71

Here's part two of my conversation with Ron Stewart on accessible instructional materials. Don't forget to go back and hear part 1 in Show 70 if you haven't yet.

Some additional resources that we talked about in this episode include:

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
http://www.rfbd.org/

Bookshare
http://bookshare.org/

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
http://www.loc.gov/nls/

National Center on Accessible Materials (NCAM)
http://aim.cast.org/

Wiki on Open Source Curriculum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum

Effective Practices for Description of Science Content within Digital Talking Books
http://ncam.wgbh.org/experience_learn/educational_media/stemdx

TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS

Show 70 - Part 1 of 3 with Ron Stewart on Accessible Instructional Materials

Submitted by d411 on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:46.

Listen to Show 70

I had a great conversation with Ron Stewart about the accessibility of instructional materials, what's going on right now, and what will hopefully be coming in the future. We ended up talking for almost an hour! So I've divided the interview into three more manageable lengths. This is part one.

The Drop Movie (based on Marcus Engel's life)
http://www.thedropmovie.com

AccessText Network
http://www.accesstext.org/

AHEAD eText Solutions
http://ahead.org/resources/e-text

DAISY Consortium
http://www.daisy.org/

NIMAC
http://www.nimac.us/

NIMAS
http://nimas.cast.org/about/nimas

National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials
http://nimas.cast.org/about/nimas

TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS

Short film based on the life of Marcus Engel

Submitted by d411 on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:27.

Speaker and author, Marcus Engel, has been on the show a couple of times. He became blind in college when hit by a drunk driver. A short film has been made about an experience in his life, called The Drop. You can see it at www.TheDropMovie.com.

We will be having an interview on the show that Marcus' wife, Marvelyne, did with Marcus and the actor who portrayed him.