December

• December Therapeutic Recreation Calendar (PDF)
  Word version

November

• Serotek Corporation is introducing a program today that will put blind children on the same page with their sighted peers --  giving them the ability to use a computer anytime, anywhere, with help from Keys for K-12 (kk12.) Keys for K-12 is a free license to carry the System Access Mobile capabilities on a portable thumb drive.  With the SA Mobile Software, your student can plug his or her flash drive into any computer, anywhere, and have instant access -- through text-to-speech and/or magnification -- to all Windows-based applications already there.
  
  
• To learn the latest about the National Library Service digital conversion plan, how and when you can get digital talking books from your US network library or from the National Library, attend the December 5 21:00 GMT NLS Digital Conversion Seminar, online, via free telephone conference call e-mail for more information toinfo@lighthouse-sf.org
  
  
• Humanware states that the Trekker Breeze, its simpler GPS product for the blind is now shipping and the 2 we have on order should be in soon. Leader Dogs is testing the usability of this product as an adjunct to its training. You will be able to read blogs of students and instructors starting on the 18th of November.http://www.leaderdog.org/breeze/
  
  
• Goalball is music to ears of kids
  at Missouri School for the Blind
  
  
• The first blind marching band in the nation is taking Columbus, Ohio by storm and one of their next stops is the Rose Parade.

• Walkathon Video
  64mg file best to right click and save the target file locally.
  
  
• Additional videos are now on YouTube.com
  
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  October
• Checkout this new Smartboard Resource Page.
  
  
• http://thirteencelebration.org/
  Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, New York television stations
  of public media company of WNET.ORG, will draw more than 8,000 educators to the 2009 Celebration of Teaching & Learning, the nation’s premier professional development conference taking place March 6-7, 2009 in New York City at the Hilton New York. Designed for K-12 educators, academics and policy makers, this year's conference will once again present worldwide
  trends in instruction, education policy and the latest research.
• On December 14, tune in to C-SPAN at 9 pm ET for the premiere of The White House: America's Most Famous Home, a 90-minute original C-SPAN production. Find out more, and watch the exclusive trailer at
  www.c-span.org/whitehouse .
  
  
• October School Lunch Menu
  
  
• New Generation of Perkins Brailler coming soon!!!
  
  
• News & Notes - Television Captioning and Description September:
  This issue of Family Center News and Notes tracks the history of captioning and description with three leaders in the field
• Coffeeshop Lunch Menu

September

• Ms. Goldman asked to scan two old Mr. Rogers booklets called Going to the Hospital and Having an Operation. While it is not accessible to VI yet, it is a useful product should you know of any young children that find themselves in such a situation.
  
  
• Board of Ed. Meal Menus
  • Breakfast    Excel File      PDF version
    
    
  • Lunch     Excel File      PDF version
    
    
• NAPVI Meeting Saturday, September 27
  • Estate Planning for Special KidsPlan for your child’s future
    Sponsored by MetLife and NYC-NAPVI
    
    
• Now through March 15, 2009, middle school students can "go green" and team up for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge , the first and only national K-12 sustainability education initiative aligned to education standards.  
  
  
  
• ThinkQuest Website Competition 2009
  

July

• NATURE TEACHER'S PACKAGE
  For middle school students, THIRTEEN/WNET NEW YORK have produced a NATURE Teacher's Package including a teacher's guide, poster, and complete DVD of the fascinating program "Crash: A Tale of Two Species." The program looks at the dwindling population of the red knot bird as the result of a sharp decrease in the horseshoe crab. The program and accompanying materials examine what can be done to help the fates of these intertwined species. Teachers who receive the package will be asked to report on its use. To request the teacher's package, please email: guiderequest@thirteen.org. Subject line: Nature Teacher's Package. Please include your name, institution, course(s) the materials will be used in, and your mailing address. Supplies are limited.
• Serotek introduces SA Mobile Network add-on
  for Icon and Braille-Plus

June