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Videotape Captioning
- Curriculum objectives resulting from Project TFA: Telecommunications For All cover fax, TTY, telephone relay service and electronic network communication. The materials encompass three areas of instruction--equipment operation, concept of technology, and interactive pragmatics.
Contact
Barbara Virvan
Technology Assessment Program, Department of Communication Arts Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 651-5257 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (202) 651-5476
- This 18-minute videotape, Independence Through Telecommunications: A Guide for Parents of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, explains how visual telecommunications technology can provide deaf and hard-of-hearing children access to the telephone. A product of Project TFA: Telecommunications For All, the videotape includes explanations and testimonials from parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children who use visual communications devices. Relay services, TTYs, fax machines and on-line services are among the topics covered.
Contact
Gallaudet Research Institute Dissemination Office
Hall Memorial Building
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 651-5575 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (202) 651-5746
- One source of telephone line simulators, used in Project TFA: Telecommunications For All, is Jensen Tools, Inc.
Contact
Jensen Tools, Inc.
7815 South 46th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85044-5399
Tel: (800) 426-1194 (voice)
Fax: (800) 366-9662
Internet
- WGBH has explored and researched ways students can enhance learning by making their own captioned videotapes. One result is [exclamdown]Captioning Kids!, a 25-minute videotape showing how students and teachers use captioning in three classrooms. The videotape is open captioned (no decoder is necessary to see th captions). This 16-page idea book suggests many ways to use video, word processing, and captioning technology to promote interactive, hands-on learning. The book details the captioning process, shows a diagram of necessary equipment and provides tips for teachers.
Contact
Mardi Loeterman
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
Tel: (617) 300-3400 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (617) 300-1035
Classroom Computer Networks
- EDUDEAF is an electronic discussion group, known as a listserv, on the Internet for educators and parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The discussion is facilitated by Cathy Brandt, a teacher in Lexington, Kentucky, who started the list in 1995. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to the address and leave the subject line empty. In the body of the message, type sub edudeaf [firstname] [lastname]. You will receive messages from and can contribute to daily discussions.
Address
listserv@lsv.uky.edu
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- The National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media and Materials has a World Wide Web site that includes print and video resources on technology and special education, discussion forums facilitated by experts in the field and links to other Web sites. The site focuses on topics such as early childhood technology and assistive technology.
Multimedia Demonstrations
- Making English Accessible: Using Electronic Networks for Interaction in the Classroom by Joy Kreeft Peyton and Martha French. This book tells how the ENFI network operates and how it can be integrated into the classroom.
Contact
Gallaudet University Bookstore
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 651-5380 (voice/TTY)
Fax: (202) 651-5489
- Information on the computer network application Discourse is available from the network's manufacturer.
Contact
Discourse Technologies, Inc.
8050 N. Port Washington Road Milwaukee, WI 53217
Tel: (800) 421-0941 (voice)
(414) 352-5595 (voice)
Fax: (414) 352-6366
Computer Notetaking Software
- A 32-minute videotape includes presentations by eight Project ALIVE! teachers showing multimedia programs they and their students have created.
Contact
Cynthia M. King
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 651-5897 (voice)
(202) 651-5685 (TTY)
Fax: (202) 651-5710
Books on Computer
- Project CONNECT (COntent-area-literacy via Networked Notetaking for Exceptional Children and Teachers) has compiled a dissemination kit. It includes a videotape and articles illustrating a computer-based notetaking system for deaf students. The system uses wireless laptop computers and allows notes taken by someone else to be seen by students in real time. Students can interact with the notetaker. The kit includes recommendations for notetakers.
Contact
Lynne Anderson-Inman
Center for Electronic Studying
College of Education
5265 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5265
Tel: (541) 346-2544 (voice)
(541) 346-1021 (TTY; messages only)
Fax: (541) 346-2565
Software Evaluation
- A dissemination kit that includes sample software with excerpts from interactive computer books designed specifically for students who are deaf and hard of hearing is offered by Project LITERACY-HI (Literacy Improvement via Text Enhancements and Reading Assistance for Children and Youth with Hearing Impairments). It also contains articles on the use of these books and recommendations for evaluating and creating electronic books for this population.
Contact
Lynne Anderson-Inman
Center for Electronic Studying
College of Education
5265 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5265
Tel: (541) 346-2544 (voice)
Fax: (541) 346-2565
- Software To Go is designed to help educators locate and evaluate computer software for deaf students. A book contains hundreds of evaluations by teachers across the United States and Canada and includes a guide to software publishers. A service offers a lending library of all the software outlined in the book and includes a catalog with supplements and newsletters.
Contact
Software To Go
Gallaudet University
MSSD Box 77
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 651-5705 (voice)
(202) 651-5758 (TTY)
Fax: (202) 651-5109