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**************************************************************** This is the E-Newsletter of Gallaudet University's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, which works for the education of deaf and hard of hearing students throughout the United States. In this issue you will find what was new, updated, or highlighted on the Clerc Center Web site ( http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/ ) during November 2003. WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE: -- Fall 2003 World Around You Added Online, Other Pages Revised -- -- Clerc Center Collects Opinions on Critical Needs in Deaf Education -- -- Athlete of the Month, Booster Club Among Changes to Athletic Pages -- -- Transition, Team Activities Discussed in Clerc Center Connection -- -- TecEds Contest, Winners of Mr. & Miss Onyx Contest Announced -- **************************************************************** -- Fall 2003 World Around You Added Online, Other Pages Revised -- The Fall 2003 World Around You, a Clerc Center magazine for deaf and hard of hearing teenagers, has been posted online. The issue includes articles about deaf people succeeding, such as “Can Deaf People Succeed in Science? You Bet!,” “Sports—Making a Career from a Love of Basketball,” and “A Writer Talks About Getting Started.” The issue can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/Fall2003/index.html or http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/index.html. Other changes to the World Around You site include the addition of magazine cover images to the archives (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/archives.html) and a separate index page for the Teacher’s Guide http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/teachers.html).
The Clerc Center is collecting public input on critical needs for deaf and hard of hearing children in three priority areas: family involvement, literacy, and transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment. Comments about these critical needs are being collected through an online questionnaire that can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/About/info-request.asp. No personally identifying information will be included with responses and the results will be summarized in a future issue of Odyssey (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/index.html).
The athletic Web pages of the Clerc Center have been revised, with the names added of the new Athletes of the Month from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf. Kristen Egnatovitch and Adam Brimmer were selected for October 2003. “Athlete of the Month” can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Sports/aotm/index.html. The list of Booster Club members was also revised. It can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Sports/booster.html. Flag football highlights from the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School athletics program were posted online. They can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/kdes/flagfootball.html.
The September and October issues of the Clerc Center Connection, a monthly publication produced by the Clerc Center’s Training and Professional Development and Publications and Information Dissemination offices, have been posted online. Story topics include team activities, transition, cool Web sites, Amos Kendall, and American Sign Language information. The issues can be viewed at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/tpd/news/2003-09/index.html and http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/tpd/news/2003-10/index.html. Back issues of the Clerc Center Connection can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TPD/news/index.html.
A contest was announced in which teachers and staff working with deaf and hard of hearing students can help build TecEds Reviews, a national database of educational software, and enter to win educational software. The press release about the contest can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/PR/teceds.html. Another press release announces the winners of the Mr. & Miss Onyx Contest. It can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/PR/onyx.html. Other news and press releases can be found in the News, Events &
Sports index at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/index-news.html. **************************************************************** Information about this E-Newsletter: You are receiving this e-mail because we received a subscription or information request via our Web site. However, if you are not interested in receiving this free E-Newsletter or feel you have received this message in error, please e-mail enews.clerccenter@gallaudet.edu with "UNSUBSCRIBE to E-Newsletter" in the subject or body of the message. You can also contact Ken Kurlychek about the E-Newsletter via e-mail: kenneth.kurlychek@gallaudet.edu . Love this E-Newsletter? Tell your friends and coworkers! Send them to this Web site to SUBSCRIBE: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/e-news/registration.html . The E-Newsletter is intended to briefly highlight what is new or recently revised on the Clerc Center Web site. It is distributed monthly. All information contained in this E-Newsletter is Copyright © 2003 by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center . **************************************************************** |
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