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Archived Newsletters
February 2010–Introduces the DCMP’s celebration of Listening Awareness Month and new partnership with the International Listening Association to promote the DCMP’s Listening is Learning campaign. Features Black History Month and Women’s History Month information and flyers promoting media and Clearinghouse articles available from the DCMP. Includes a reminder about 2010’s Read Captions Across America celebration, a flyer [PDF] promoting new Emerging Technologies titles, a mention of the DCMP’s Presidents’ Day-related media, and a blurb about the launch of the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning.
January 2010–Includes information about the launch of the new Read Captions Across America website in advance of March 2, 2010, when RCAA and NEA’s Read Across America are officially celebrated. Also includes an announcement about the availability of Young Heroes: Louis Braille, in celebration of Braille’s birthday, which falls on January 4. Along with the video, the DCMP also prepared a brief Louis Braille resource guide for teachers. Also includes a promotional flyer [PDF] about DCMP and CaptionMax’s Emerging Technologies project, new additions to DCMP’s YouTube channel, a reminder about the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, and a write-up about the Kennedy Center’s accessibility initiatives.
December 2009–Includes links to a new “Winter Holidays” flyer [PDF] and several previews of available holiday-themed titles on the DCMP YouTube Channel, as well as another flyer featuring “December Holidays You May Have Never Heard Of” [PDF]. Also features information on child abuse and neglect prevention and awareness resources, including a new flyer [PDF] listing DCMP media items and articles, links to the captioned and the described version of the Childhelp-sponsored “The Eleventh Commandmant” music video by Collin Raye, and information about a new Deafed.net child abuse education Wiki. This edition is rounded out by mentions of Google’s recent launch of automated accessibility features for YouTube, a short piece about products and services offered by Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) and the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), and a guest contribution about the Blindskills organization.
October/November 2009–Includes information about the release of two described and captioned archive clips featuring Helen Keller, several flyers with recommended DCMP media featuring themes related to “giving thanks,” a review of educational captioning laws, and wrap-up report from this year’s National Media Market. Also, announces the launch of the Listening is Learning website (and the accompanying LIL print materials available for order). Several non-DCMPnews items are also included, such as Universal’s committment to releasing DVDs with WGBH-produced description tracks, Deaf-Blind 101, and the Big Deal Book of Technology.
September 2009–Includes information on Deaf Awareness Week-related titles available from the DCMP, a feature on two animated series recently added to the DCMP collection (Shakespeare: The Animated Tales [PDF] and Johan, the Young Scientist [PDF]), and information about how to order the new DCMP posters. Also features a reminder to DCMP members to continue to recommend media, a feature on a ground-breaking partnership between WGBH and Sony Home Entertainment, and several accessibility “odds and ends” from around the Net.
August 2009–Includes a back-to-school update highlighting new DCMP titles released since the end of the 2008-2009 school year (and a new flyer promoting the job skills series Real Life 101 [PDF]). Announces the DCMP’s participation at this year’s National Media Market. Lists the winners of the first-ever Young Described Film Critic contest, provides an update on the DCMP collection’s conversion to Flash video format, and provides links to results of recent surveys about description [PDF] and captioning.
June 2009–Includes recommendations from the DCMP collection for summer viewing [PDF] and provides an overview of the DCMP’s ASL resources [PDF], including a large collection of Signs of Development training materials for interpreters. Announces the launch of the DCMP’s Facebook page and the DCMP’s partnership with FamilyConnect. (This newsletter was supplemented to announce the availability of the “Silent Darkness” Dr. Phil show episode about the world’s only deaf-blind triplets.)
May 2009–Presents the results of a survey of teachers of students with visual impairments concerning classroom media usage, and includes information about Deaf-Blind Awareness Week and Helen Keller as well as the passage of Hawaiian Senate and House resolutions supporting captioning. Introduces new flyers (Infectious Diseases [PDF] and Captioned Media for Memorial Day [PDF]) to promote DCMP titles, Kelly Gorski’s article [PDF] for teens about preventing abuse, and information about Better Hearing and Speech Month.
April 2009–Features an Earth Day theme connected to the “ecoLOGICAL” flyer [PDF], an update on Read Captions Across America™, information about Listening IS Learning, and several other updates and announcements. Includes links to CO Teacher of the Year Susan Elliot’s article [PDF], the ACB convention announcement [PDF], and DCMP’s survey of teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired.