PATINS PROJECT -Rapid Fire-

PATINS TTA (Targeted Technical Assistance) Grant Selections Announced!  The PATINS Project thanks all districts who applied for your interest in the 2011-2012 Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Targeted Technical Assistance Grant.  Congratulations to the districts who have been chosen to participate in this year’s grant process. A few applications were not considered because they were only [...]

Welcome Back To School …for many of you! PATINS Targeted Technical Assistance Grants:  There seems to be some confusion out there about 2 related but unconnected Grants that were recently announced.  There was a grant that was due to IDOE on 8/10 this week.  There is a separate and different grant through the PATINS Project [...]

Wrapping Up: For some of you, school will be finishing very soon.  Several others have a few more days or even weeks of snow/fog/flood days to make up.  As you begin to look toward summer, keep in mind a few things for those lazy days when you feel like expanding your knowledge a little bit [...]

SORRY I’M LATE this week!  I’ve been terribly sick for nearly a full week now and hope none of you get this nasty virus!  I do have some great things to share however and better late than never! AT Overview Module: NW Site Coordinator, Jim Lambert, has done an awesome job creating this online module [...]

PATINS Email! As you probably know by now, ALL PATINS Staff have new email addresses as of July 1.  Several of us have had some difficulty getting emails to our contacts from our new addresses.  If you have a minute, please check your email settings and/or make sure that “@ciesc.k12.in.us” is on your whitelist of [...]

Google & Autism Spectrum (thanks Chris B): Did you know about Google for Education?   …and that Google has a project for students on the autism spectrum and the educators working with them?  Check this out: www.google.com/educators/spectrum.html Collaborating and Presenting in Second Life Viewer 2!  As you may know, Viewer 2 for Second Life introduced [...]

New PATINS Staff Contact Info: Most PATINS Staff will have new contact information including email, phone, fax, physical address starting now!  I’ll keep you updated here as these changes are finalized.  Here are our new email addresses for now: Vicki Hershman (PATINS Director):  vhershman@ciesc.k12.in.us Glenda Thompson (Admin. Asst):  gthompson@ciesc.k12.in.us Daniel G. McNulty (NE PATINS): nepatins@ciesc.k12.in.us [...]

Apple & Flash: If you’ve wondered when Apple will permit the use of Flash on devices like the iPad, iPhone, iTouch, etc., you can probably stop worrying about it.  It likely won’t happen ANYTIME soon Read more from Steve Jobs here:  www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ I’d love to hear your comments/thoughts on this issue. iPad Miracle for Son [...]