Given that you are working with learning disabled students you may be
interested in the following resource:
There is a service from the University of Georgia that can provide
accessible versions of textbooks and other materials to you.
Schools join the The Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and then
can request production of existing print books or other materinals
which will be delivered n a range of accessible formats such as
accessible PDF and so on.
Greg Kearney
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Laurie Yalem wrote:
> Now that we have Smartboards in all of the classrooms, teachers are
> wanting to "digitize" their workbooks, handouts, teacher created
> materials, etc. that they have developed/purchased over the years.
> I am
> interested in what others are doing along these lines. Our copy
> machines
> are just that, they don't scan. We do have a couple of flatbed
> scanners
> for our small school, but we are talking about needing to scan lots of
> documents. Does your school have a solution? Are schools going to
> hardware that is both a copy machine and can scan to pdf and then
> somehow
> (email?) get it into the teachers network account? I'd love to hear
> about
> that- we are an all Mac school if that makes a difference.
>
> :) 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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