We're looking forward to a great 2011-2012 school year with you! Below we highlight AIM Center tools and resources at your finger tips - resources that you can pull off the shelf from the AIM Center website - to build your own knowledge about AIM and to share in training sessions and/or with colleagues working to get high quality accessible instructional materials into the hands of students who need them.
As for sharing AIM Center resources, it can be as simple as clicking on that link on the right, "Send AIM Connector to a friend" - voila, you have now 'paid it forward,' introducing your colleagues to critical AIM Center resources.
Not finding what you need? As always, we are here to answer your questions. Give us a call at (781) 245-2212 or email us at aim@cast.org. We are here to support you and your good work!
The AIM Center team
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Build Your Knowledge
Watch it, Read it, Use it...and Share it!
Watch it
AIMing for Achievement DVD - View this individually or in groups to build awareness, knowledge, and skills of educators, administrators, families, advocates, and all who sit on IEP teams and other collaborative decision-making teams. Available through your NIMAS State Coordinator.
Product Tutorials - A series of videos on 10 of the major commercially available software products for accessing digital text.
Stories from the Field - A collection of stories from students from elementary through post-secondary with a range of disabilities who share their strategies for overcoming print disabilities.
Read it
AIM Implementation Guide - Implementing AIM in secondary school settings. Contains data collection tools, checklists, video, policy resources, and references. Add your state specific policies to make the guide appropriate for your audience. Free on AIM website.
AIM for Families and Advocates - Reference guide touching on all aspects of AIM decision making. Hand it out to families, bring it to an IEP meeting, or use it as a handout in trainings. Published June 2011. Free as a download; printed booklets available on PACER Center website for a nominal fee.
DAISY and NIMAS in HTML - Latest technical guide for publishers and producers of AIM, published April 2011. Free on AIM website.
Use it
AIM Navigator - Interactive tool that guides you step-by-step through the AIM-related needs of individual students. Free on AIM web site.
AIM Explorer - Simulation helping struggling readers identify features found in digital supported reading software that will best help them access and understand text. Free on AIM web site.
Share it
Register yourself and/or a team for an AIM Center webinar - Check the AIM Center website for free upcoming webinars that will be posted in early September and begin in early October.
AIM Forum - Join the online forum, community of practice and learn about AIM from your colleagues.
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Top Newsworthy Articles on AIM-Related Issues
Highlighting trends in e-books, accessibility in education, digital technology tools, publishing
Top 3 Must-Reads:
August 18: Bookstream Stores Specialized Formats in the Cloud
August 9: Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008
July 16: eBooks: 1998 - the First eBook Readers
Check the AIM Center home page to access current and archived articles of interest.
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Upcoming Conference Presentations on AIM at Closing the Gap Conference - Minnesota
October 10, 2011, Pre-Conference Workshop
Help is Just a Fingertip Away! Exploring AIM Center Tools for Educators and Families
Presenters: Joan Breslin-Larson, Diana Carl, Joy Zabala
October 12, 2011, Demonstration
The AIM Navigator: Guiding the Way Through Decision-Making About AIM
Presenters: Diana Carl, Joy Zabala
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Meet the AIM Center Summer Interns
|   Maya Lagu, AIM Center Intern |
Maya Lagu is a recent graduate of the Ed.M. program in Technology, Innovation, and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she specialized in multimedia production and educational game design. She also holds an M.A.T. from Brown University, and is a former high school English teacher. While interning for the AIM Center, she helped to create a multimedia student Learning Journey - coming soon to the AIM Center website! Maya will shortly begin her work as an Associate Producer for Digital Media at Sesame Workshop where she is excited to bring the Universal Design for Learning framework to the design and production of interactive games for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
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Hillary Barton, AIM Center Intern
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Massachusettes local Hillary Barton joined the AIM Center team this summer to work on the Learning Journeys project. A Film/Animation/Video major entering her junior year at the Rhode Island School of Design, she collaborated with other interns and the team to bring the successful Learning Journey of Alessia Mondlane to life through pixelation animation (coming soon to the AIM Center website). She aspires to use her animation to help teach through such storytelling, and was eager for this opportunity to help share a story that will inspire others to reach their full potential!
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TA Tips
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Happy reentry into school! As you get started, you are likely to see students who are having difficulty getting information from printed text who may not have been identified as having a print disability. When this happens, check out the resources at the AIM Center that you can use to learn more about AIM, help others learn more about AIM and navigate your way through decision-making about AIM.
We're always here to help. Email us at aim@cast.org.
Joy Zabala
Director of Technical Assistance
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