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Submit To Present At The PATINS State Conference 2012! You are PROBABLY doing something amazing in your classroom or school OR you know someone who is. Could another educator somewhere in Indiana benefit from hearing more about what you’re doing?  Are you implementing Accessible Materials, creating Accessible Materials, promoting Accessible Materials, utilizing Assistive Technology to [...]

  NEW TTA Grant Applications Announced TODAY!  Short Turn-Around Time!  There is a short window of opportunity so don’t delay:  Deadline to submit is Valentines Day’s, 2/14/12.  Two weeks from today! We will notify status to all that apply on 2/17/12. THE LINK to APPLY:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2ndroundttagrantapp13112   What Is This Grant All About? The PATINS [...]

Apologies that this post didn’t go out Friday morning like usual.  I have several important announcements though and needed to wait a couple more days.  You won’t want to miss some of this stuff!  When Will We Start Teaching Online Responsibility… and stop blocking access???  Anyone who’s ever had a conversation with me about education has [...]

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 [...]

Does YOUR Indiana school district need help with any of these? Supporting the provision of appropriate, high-quality instructional materials in specialized formats. Providing specialized formats  of materials in a timely manner. Developing & Implementing written guidelines defining responsibilities and actions for specialized formats. Supporting Professional Development and Training for staff around students with print disabilities [...]

NEW PATINS Website! … and trainings being scheduled NOW! If you haven’t noticed yet, PATINS Project has a brand new website with a new, more functional, look! www.patinsproject.com . A couple of things I’d like to draw your attention to with the new website: Upper right hand area; there are up/down arrows allowing you to [...]

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 [...]

The PATINS Project’s Indiana Center for Accessible Materials (ICAM) will provide Targeted Technical Assistance (TTA) to ten Indiana Local Educational Agencies (LEAs).  The purpose of the TTA is to work closely with LEAs to assist with developing, improving and/or sustaining an effective, efficient system for the provision of specialized formats of print-based instructional materials to [...]