Greg
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Kurt Johnson wrote:
> Greg-
>
> I maintain a wikipage of all things 'electronic books.' It is used
> to organize my thoughts, the trends in electronic books, and share a
> compilation of information with others who hold an interest in the
> subject.
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> Could I post your description below about DAISY and related hardware
> into my wiki, giving you attribution for the text?
>
> http://lab-inst.usu.edu/groups/inst4010/wiki/25b70/Electronic_Books.html
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> Kurt Johnson
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> Utah State University
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> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
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>> Hello this is a topic about which I happen to know a great deal.
>> There
>> is a international standard for digital talking books which the
>> Library of Congress, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic and the
>> world's libraries for the blind all use. It is called DAISY www.daisy.org
>> and unlike traditional recording of books provides for navigation,
>> going to a particular chapter or page, as well as displaying the
>> text
>> while reading in some cases.
>>
>> DAISY books are played on special DAISY play back devices the best of
>> which, in my opinion are made by Humanware. www.humaware.com These
>> will also play standard audio and services like Audible as well. As
>> you are dealing with Dyslexic students you would have access to books
>> from the National Library Service for the blind and disabled, RFB&D
>> and Bookshare.org which have extensive collections of books in DAISY
>> and other formats.
>>
>> You can also make your own DAISY books from text or from
>> recordings. I
>> wrote DTBmaker for Macintosh which is free and can be downloaded from
>> w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker
>>
>> The DAISY Pipeline is a free professional tool to do the same a link
>> can be found at www.daisy.org
>>
>> Finally permit me to rant a bit here. The reason I am such a DAISY
>> expert is because I am a profound dyslexic (Landmark School 1972). As
>> much as Landmark did for me and it was a fantastic accomplishment
>> getting me to read at the fourth grade level. One thing they did not
>> do and which is still not being done that I am aware of anyway, was
>> to
>> train me how to study and use talking books and other such
>> techniques.
>> Like it or not some dyslexics, such as myself, will be using talking
>> books for the rest of our lives. Over time I learned how to learn and
>> study with them but it would have been much easier for me had I been
>> given instructions like the blind get.
>>
>> I can understand that schools such as Landmark and Churchill Center
>> must and should focus their attention on teaching reading. However it
>> seems that some attention should also be given to the skills needed
>> to
>> continue education if you are unable to achieve normal grade level
>> reading abilities. While I am able to read well enough to get by I
>> will never trust my skills in critical settings and I will never read
>> for enjoyment.
>>
>> Greg Kearney
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
>>> writes:
>>>> Our school library is a bit different than most. Due to our
>>>> population
>>>> (all LD students) we offer our students a "reading library". We
>>>> have many
>>>> fiction books, as all students are required to do nightly reading,
>>>> and
>>>> about 1200 books on tape. Over the course of the last couple of
>>>> years we
>>>> are trying to move away from books on audio tape to books on CD,
>>>> since
>>>> nobody has a cassette player anymore! We have been converting the
>>>> cassette tapes to CDs. Of course now we are starting to think
>>>> about how
>>>> we can offer these books to our students that have iPods, which if
>>>> it's
>>>> anything like your school, it's most of the kids! I don't know
>>>> if we
>>>> should be converting these CDs to digital audio and putting them on
>>>> some
>>>> kind of server for them to download, or if we should then podcast
>>>> them
>>>> some way. The idea is for kids to be able to listen and read along
>>>> at
>>>> home. I'm sure CD players will go the way of cassette players soon
>>>> and we
>>>> want to be prepared. I would welcome any thoughts, suggestions or
>>>> experiences with this issue. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> :) Laurie
>>>>
>>>> Laurie Yalem
>>>> Technology Coordinator
>>>> Churchill Center & School for Learning Disabilities
>>>> 1021 Municipal Center Dr.
>>>> Town & Country, MO 63131
>>>> 314-997-4343
>>>> lyalem@churchillstl.org
>>>> www.churchillstl.org
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