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		<title>26 University Presses Now Partner with Bookshare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 04:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Seaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened over the year with university press partnerships. With three new partnerships in the last few weeks, I realized it was time to post an update. These three new university presses signing agreements to contribute digital files with world rights to Bookshare bring the total number of university press partners to twenty-six. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2169&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PAR: a Process for Selecting Accommodations for Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post from Ben Johnston, Director of Marketing for Don Johnston, Incorporated. This resource sounds great! Thanks for sharing it with us. With over 140,000 accessible books, Bookshare is a blessing for students with disabilities. This resource would have been unimaginable just ten years ago when days were spent scanning books.  But with more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2152&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Sallie Spencer, Top Bookshare Mentor Teacher!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Mentor Teacher selected to win the top prize, an iPad, is Sallie Spencer! Sallie is a middle school Special Education Teacher at Olivet Middle School, in Olivet, Michigan. As a Mentor Teacher, she met with district special education staff both in groups and individually, and walked them step-by-step through the process of finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2148&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Individual Memberships for Change and Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Chernek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Carney, a 7th grade English teacher at Lowville Academy Central Middle School, NY, wanted to change the way some of her students thought about reading, and the way they read. She knew that if she could find a way to help her students feel more confident and independent as readers, they would be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2128&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey Task Force Researches Services to Students with Reading Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 23:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently learned about the work of the New Jersey Reading Disabilities Task Force from Kathy Stratton, the mother of a Bookshare member. Appointed by the governor, this 11-member task force is researching the services available to students who struggle with reading to find out if the state is meeting the needs of its students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2114&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshare Helped Student Transition to College</title>
		<link>http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/05/07/bookshare-helped-student-transition-to-college/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Chernek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Bryant pulled straight A’s in his Maryland high school. He liked to read all kinds of books then, but that wasn’t always the case for Zach.  He has Cerebral Palsy (CP) which prohibits him from speaking and walking. To communicate and write his thoughts down, he uses an augmentative communication device (AAC). Simple tasks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2119&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshare Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post from Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, the parent company for Bookshare Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. The event was hosted by Google on its campus in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2103&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Selected Benetech for Google Summer of Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students to Contribute to Development of Go Read Every summer, Google sponsors “Google Summer of Code” (GSoC) which offers stipends to postsecondary student developers and pairs them with open source mentoring organizations. Given Google’s high engineering standards, selection as a mentoring organization is a great honor! This year, Benetech was awarded three, top-notch students and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2095&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Furthering Accessibility of Graphs at the International Space Apps Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend of April 21 and 22, two engineers from the Bookshare team, Gerardo Capiel and Rom Srinivasan, participated in the International Space Apps Challenge, a two-day event designed to bring citizens from around the world together to solve challenges relevant to spatial exploration and social need. It’s a “code-a-thon” weekend – a technology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2081&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words of Wisdom on Transition from a College Freshman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Burgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does a very talented, bright, highly motivated young woman with severe dyslexia succeed in college? How is she getting almost a 4.0 GPA, top grades in all her classes, without her mom sitting beside her, patiently reading every word in every book as she did for twelve years? All incoming freshman experience some college [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.bookshare.org&#038;blog=13022734&#038;post=2076&#038;subd=bookshareblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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