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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 website (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/) during March 2004. WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE: -- Literacy Web Pages Updated with New Look, Revised Content -- -- Actress Shoshannah Stern Interview Featured in World Around You -- -- KidsWorld Deaf Net Offers New E-Document: Keys to English Print -- -- Info to Go’s 2004 Summer Camps, Conferences Listings Revised -- -- Digital Video Project by Clerc Center Students Added Online -- -- Junior NAD Conference, ASL Discussed in Clerc Center Connection -- -- Happenings Includes Essay Contest Judges, GURC Directors’ Meeting -- -- Science Teacher Trainings, Visual Phonics, Others Call for Participants -- **************************************************************** -- Literacy Web Pages Updated with New Look, Revised Content -- A few highlights of the literacy site include:
-- Actress Shoshannah Stern Interview Featured in World Around You -- The “Upcoming” pages of World Around You, a Clerc Center magazine for deaf and hard of hearing teenagers, has been updated to include an interview with actress Shoshannah Stern, who plays Holly Brodeen on ABC’s “Threat Matrix.” The interview, of which a portion will be printed in an upcoming issue of the magazine, can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/upcoming/stern.html. World Around You, with links to upcoming stories, essay contest information, the current issue, back issues, advertising information, and “Glimpses of Deaf Lives” stories, can be found online at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/index.html. -- KidsWorld Deaf Net Offers New E-Document: Keys to English Print -- The Clerc Center’s KidsWorld Deaf Net has posted a new E-Document, entitled Keys to English Print, a collection of articles about philosophies, techniques, and strategies for enabling deaf and hard of hearing children to develop literacy skills. This collection, containing reformatted versions of fall 2003 Odyssey articles of the same names, includes discussions on Visible English, fingerspelling, Cued Speech, phonics and American Sign Language, Bridges programs, Manipulative Visual English, Reading Recovery, and others. The document can be read online at: http://clerccenter2.gallaudet.edu/KidsWorldDeafNet/e-docs/keys/index.html. Odyssey, a Clerc Center magazine about deaf education, can be found online at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/index.html. More information about KidsWorld Deaf Net can be found at: http://clerccenter2.gallaudet.edu/KidsWorldDeafNet/index.html. -- Info to Go’s 2004 Summer Camps, Conferences Listings Revised -- Info to Go is a centralized source of up-to-date and objective information about topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss for the age group 0-21. The following Info to Go web pages were added and updated in March: -- 2004 Summer Camps for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/142.html) -- Upcoming Conferences and Exhibits (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/conflist.html) -- Statewide Services for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/501.html) For more information about Info to Go, visit: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/index.html. -- Digital Video Project by Clerc Center Students Added Online -- The Clerc Center’s Digital Video Project, which includes a Digital Dictionary, Idiom Digital Dictionary, and Multiple Meaning Digital Dictionary videos created by Clerc Center students, is now online. It can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/dv/index.htm. -- Junior NAD Conference, ASL Discussed in Clerc Center Connection -- The November-December 2003 and January 2004 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 the 2003 Junior National Association of the Deaf National Conference, team activities, cool websites, the Gallaudet University Regional Centers directors’ meeting, and American Sign Language information. The issues can be viewed at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/tpd/news/2003-11/index.html and http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/tpd/news/2004-01/index.html. Back issues of the Clerc Center Connection can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TPD/news/index.html. -- Happenings Includes Essay Contest Judges, GURC Directors’ Meeting -- A regular feature of On the Green (http://pr.gallaudet.edu/otg), a publication for Gallaudet University faculty and staff, the Clerc Center Happenings columns posted in March announced the Gallaudet National Essay Contest judges and discussed the activities of the Gallaudet University Regional Center directors’ meeting. The columns can be viewed at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/judges2-20.html and http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/GURC3-19.html. Both are also accessible (along with the Happenings archives) from: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/index.html. -- Science Teacher Trainings, Visual Phonics, Others Call for Participants -- Teacher training programs for SOAR-High Earth System Science and Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) will take place this summer on the Gallaudet campus. The SOAR-High workshop, which will take place August 2-7, has a registration deadline of April 9. More details can be found at: http://sci.gallaudet.edu/MSSDScience/04ESSTDannounce.html. More details about the GLOBE teacher training, which will take place July 26-30, can be found at: http://sci.gallaudet.edu/GLOBE/04poster.html. Other Clerc Center training events include: See The Sound: Visual Phonics, taking place June 21-22, and Cochlear Implants and Sign Language: Doing It (Strategies for Developing and Integrating Spoken Language), taking place June 23-25. More information about these can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/ciec/June-2004-workshops.html. In addition, Technology in Education Can Empower Deaf Students (TecEds) offers training to teachers across the nation working with deaf and hard of hearing students. Dates, places, and registration information can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TecEds/training/index.htm. Other Clerc Center training opportunities can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TPD/training-schedule.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 © 2004 by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center . **************************************************************** |
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