Resolved: Use DCMP Titles In 2013 and Provide Feedback to the DCMP

We have some great titles in our DCMP library. But are we missing something? Please recommend media to us. And remember, as you use DCMP media items, please complete the Response Card for each media item you borrow. This helps us track usage and justify the need for continued DCMP funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Also, your feedback is critical regarding the quality of the media item and its accessibility features (description and captioning).

Resolved: Use DCMP Media to Support the CCSS

Everyone knows the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are designed to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what all students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. There is clear evidence that the CCSS should be read as allowing for the widest possible range of students to participate fully from the outset, along with the appropriate accommodations to ensure maximum participation of students with special education needs.

Assistive technology and accessible media are critical for students with disabilities to achieve CCSS literacy and content goals. The accessibility features (captioning and description) that DCMP adds to media are essential for students who are blind or deaf. But for other children, accessible media is also an exciting learning enhancement. On the one hand, our videos are like moving informational texts or moving picture books that add print (captions) to the spoken word, affording opportunities to better understand concepts and to develop language. On the other hand, DCMP videos can also be thought of as audio texts with added narration (descriptions) that convey meaning and enrich language.

Learn more about how the DCMP is a robust and relevant resource for CCSS.

DCMP Related Resources:

• Five Key Reasons to Use the DCMP
• Description + Captioning = Access
• Read Captions Across America
• Listening is Learning

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DCMP Reaches 3M YouTube Views!
We have reached 3,000,000 total views on the DCMP YouTube channel! Our channel receives between 10,000 and 12,000 channel views every day. If you're not one of these viewers, then you are missing three-minute preview clips on our YouTube channel for each new video added to our collection. Be sure to click our subscribe button, and you will receive notification when a new video is available. But that's not all! Check out our YouTube offerings in Blindness: History and Awareness, Literature-Based Classic Movies, Deaf History and Awareness, and much more. Browse our offerings now! 

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The Family Center on Technologies and Disabilities (FCTD) and PACER Center are pleased to announce the release of their new video featuring Mason, a young boy with vision loss who, with the help of Assistive Technology (AT), is able to learn reading and writing in the same classroom as his sighted peers. You are invited to view and share this video for free with your colleagues and the families you serve. Learn about other videos in their technology awareness series, AT in Action.

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The Mayans were wrong about the End of the World, and that means you have to make New Year's resolutions after all! Here's an easy way to get started: Log in to My DCMP and make sure all your account information is current. After you do this, we recommend snacking on chocolate or pie, and then taking a nice nap.