Free Audiobooks for students – http://www.bluford.org/audiobooks/

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

LATI Summer Institute Video and Photo Contest

Friday, January 20th, 2012

 2012 LATI Summer Institute

ONCE AGAIN IT IS TIME TO START

SNAPPING AND SHOOTING.

The Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative (LATI) will be sponsoring a photo and video contest in conjunction with the LATI Summer Institute.  This year’s Institute will be held on June 6 -8, 2012 in the Lake Charles area at Westlake High School located at 1000 Garden Drive in Westlake, Louisiana.

 This year’s theme is “There’s AT for That”.

We want to see students using assistive technology at school, home, at play – in any/all environments. The deadline for submissions is April 13, 2012.  All submissions this year need to be MAILED and be postmarked by April 13, 2012 in order to be accepted.  No entries will be accepted by email. Anyone can submit an entry as long as contest rules are followed and a photo/video release form is signed and turned in with each entry.  Winner does not need to be present.

Visit www.lati3.com/contests.htm for complete rules and entry forms.

For more information on the LATI Summer Institute: http://bb.lati.cpsb.org/

If you have any questions, email Kristie at [email protected].

New features in the Bookshare website

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

New features in the Bookshare website

Bookshare is excited to announce some new features coming in early 2012. Our team has worked hard on new tools and options to make using Bookshare even better. Here is a preview! We will tell you more about these changes before they go live.

• Audio Book Formats – Bookshare members will soon be able to listen to books on MP3 players or any device that can play MP3; DAISY audio playable on MP3 players and other technologies will follow soon thereafter. In addition, we will provide a file manager that will make downloading, organizing, and transferring your books easy.
• My Downloads – The My Downloads section will make it easier to find or search the books you have downloaded in the past, check the status of books that are still in the process of being prepared, and easily re-download books if you need them.
• Simplified Download Process – You will be able to set global download preferences for book formats. This will make it faster and easier for members or teachers to download books on behalf of students in their preferred format every time. You will also still be able to easily select the format type each time you find a book.
• New functionality that will make the administrative functions much easier for larger accounts, including the ability to filter by school and district and generate the list of the books they have downloaded that includes the student for whom each book was downloaded and the date on which each book was downloaded.

Save the Date for 8th Annual LATI Summer Institute

Monday, December 12th, 2011

2012 SI Save the Date Flyer

Unique Learning Webinar

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Unique Learning has just posted a new webinar on their website. To access it just log into your account and it will be at the top of the member’s home page. It’s a great way to learn how to get started using Unique and answer some basic questions about the program.