Described and Captioned Media Program Monday, October 17, 2011

This month’s features:

For Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: Social Skills Videos

 

Captioning FAQs

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Watch 5 teacher-produced video lessons (with learning guides).

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Helping everyone make their media accessible through quality captioning.


 

Perspective:
Examining the Process of Audio Description

 

A Treasure Chest:
New DCMP Titles

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Imagine you are a blind, fourth-grade girl watching a film.

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Free accessible media treasures are yours for the asking.

For Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: Social Skills Videos

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Thanks to the Texas Education of Blind and Visually Impaired Students Advisory Committee, you may watch 5 teacher-produced video lessons that teach social skills. Learn about their recent contest, "Social Skills: Putting the 'C' in Cool".

View the contest-winning videos (described and captioned) and lesson guides on the DCMP YouTube channel or through the DCMP library. Yet another choice you have to view them is through the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) Web site.

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Captioning FAQs

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Videos and digital media are shown daily in classrooms across the nation. This experience enhances learning and engages students. However, most educational videos are not captioned, which means they are not accessible to students who are deaf and hard of hearing. This equates to unequal opportunities to develop language or increase cognitive and academic skills.

DCMP is a leader in providing services to support and improve the academic achievements of these students. This is accomplished not only through the provision of a free-loan library of described and captioned educational media, but also through the provision of technical and style guidelines to assist anyone in adding access to media.

Many educational institutions are interested in captioning their own media, as are agencies, businesses, and even individuals such as parents. Therefore, DCMP has partnered with Jacksonville State University to create a series of FAQs to help anyone make their media accessible through captioning and to achieve necessary high captioning quality. This eight-part series can be viewed on DCMP's YouTube page. The videos are also available on JSU's iTunes U site, if you have iTunes installed on your computer.

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Perspective: Examining the Process of Audio Description

Imagine that you are a blind, fourth-grade girl and that your class is watching a film that examines prejudice and bullying in our culture. The film is a drama, where young girls shoot scornful glares, roll their eyes, and whisper about a new student. Instead of aggressive bullying, they get up and leave when the new girl approaches. Now imagine that you're studying human anatomy in high school. The brilliantly colored graphics of today's film show how blood flows through the heart's ventricles and oxygen inflates the bronchioles in the lungs.

These are just two examples of videos that Alice Austin has described for The Described and Captioned Media Program. Read more about how Alice creates description to help students who are blind or visually impaired as they are faced with videos in which there are "visual cues to which they have no access."

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A Treasure Chest: New DCMP Titles

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If you are an elementary teacher who has a student who is deaf, that student will enjoy Goodnight Moon, based on the classic book by Margaret Wise Brown and signed in American Sign Language. (Watch it streamed, or borrow it in DVD!) The Drug Facts Action Pack series is for intermediate and junior high students, using a mix of teen hosts, kids talking about real-life experiences, animated characters, and creative skits: Totally True Facts About Alcohol, Totally True Facts About Drugs in the Home, Totally True Facts About Inhalants, Totally True Facts About Marijuana, and Totally True Facts About Tobacco. Our October new titles listing also has titles in health and safety, history, literature, science, social science, and more!

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Quick Hits

Free:
Community Classroom Film Modules

 

Free:
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

 

Free:
Teachers Helping Teachers

Community Classroom

Deaf Jam utilizes innovative techniques to convey the beauty of sign language poetry to hearing audiences. It is a three-dimensional language that exists, like dance, in space. It is part of Community Classroom, an innovative and free resource for educators, offering short-form film modules adapted from award-winning documentaries. Don't miss Lives Worth Living: a historical documentary about the Disability Rights Movement.

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The Collection of the National Gallery of Art is the homepage for one of the finest art collections in the world, illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to today. Visitors can search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Check out other free resources from the U.S. Department of Education in a broad range of subject areas including health, history, math, science, and others.

  Treachers Helping Teachers

Teachers Helping Teachers is a terrific site for all teachers, but its Special Education section provides a number of activities that are specifically geared toward teaching basic skills to special students. Misunderstood Kids: Outside the Box, another site for parents and teachers of all types of special-needs children, includes an Especially for Teachers page. The linked sites provide information, lesson plans, and activities. Finally, you may want to promote home-school interaction by sharing Very Special Home Pages with families of special students. This site provides free home pages for children and adults with special needs. Each biography, written by a parent or caregiver, displays the talents, hobbies, and personality of the person with special needs and allows visitors to see beyond the disability.

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The contents of this newsletter were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Cooperative Agreement #H327N060002.

However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Project Officer, Ernest Hairston.

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