AIM Center Advisory Committee Meeting

1. January 26, 2010 Tuesday (day 2) AIM Center Advisory Committee Meeting

2. Welcome Back • Welcome, Chuck Hitchcock • Meeting Resources (repeated), Chuck • Handouts • Print • Braille • Digital (emailed and on thumbdrives) • PowerPoint Slides • iLink Slides and VOIP • CART (will be posted as is and in condensed form) • Meeting Agenda

3. AIM Consortium Update • Progress and Products • Joy Zabala • Director of TA, National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials (NCAIM), CAST • Jeff Diedrich • Director, Michigan Integrated Technology Supports (MITS) • Thoughts about sharing the AIM Consortium Knowledge and Products with others - chat

4. What Else is Happening? • Vicki Hershman • State Project Director, PATINS Project, Indiana • John Eisenberg • Director of Instructional Support and Related Services, Virginia Department of Education • Charles Mayo • Manager, Distribution, Accessibility & Finance, Instructional Materials & Educational Technology, Texas Education Agency

5. NIMAS Standards Board Update • Skip Stahl • Director, NIMAS Center

6. BREAK 15 minutes

7. NIMAC Update • Nicole Gaines • NIMAC Manager, American Printing House for the Blind (APH) • Julia Myers • Director of Resource Services & NIMAC, American Printing House for the Blind

8. Educational Publisher Perspectives • Jay Diskey • Executive Director, School Division, Association of American Publishers (AAP) • Tom Starbranch • Chair, Association of American Publishers, Serving Students with Disabilities Committee, Accessibility and Compliance Manager, Pearson Curriculum Group

9. AIM Center Partner Updates • Paul Schroeder • Vice President of Programs and Policy, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) • Ruth Ziolkowsky • Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Representative; President, Don Johnston, Inc.

10. Group Discussion • Suggested Approaches for: • AIM Center Technical Assistance • AIM Center Dissemination • After lunch: Public Comment Period

11. Lunch and Collaboration For AIM Center Advisory Committee and the NIMAS Board 1 Hour

12. Public Comments

13. Accessible Media Producer Updates • APH, Nicole Gaines and/or Julia Myers • Bookshare (B4E), Betsy Beaumon • Vice President and General Manager, Benetech Literacy Program (B4E) • RFB&D, Mike Kurdziel • Chief Program Officer, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)

14. The Emerging Landscape • Instructional Materials / Learning Resources • Textbooks and supplementals (print, html, etc.) • Open Source textbooks (CK12, Curriki, etc.) • Digital eBook Readers (Kindle, Sony Reader, etc.) • Web-based eLearning environments • Web-based education content • Smart phones (iPhone, Droid, etc.) • Others ?? • Opportunities • Challenges

15. Selecting Ten Key States for TA • Purpose for this discussion • Tentative approaches • Lottery • Referrals by 3rd parties • Evaluation based on a predetermined criteria • Criteria for selection (discussion) • Leadership • Readiness • Etc.

16. Open Discussion on a Selected Topic • Review list from last year then update the list, categorize and prioritize • Quality of XML • Market model • Eligibility/qualification of student populations • Diversity of implementation, policy and practice • Need for LEA awareness, knowledge, resources • Large-scale implementation • Tactile graphics/images • Helping teachers match hardware, software, and alternate-format outputs • Braille transcriber training • Economic issues • Administrative leadership • Including general education counterparts • Importance of collaboration/cooperation • Authorized Users/policy change Current Status ?? No longer an issue Improvement noted Larger issue now Much larger issue now

17. Group Discussion • Suggested Approaches for • Leadership and coordination • Reference doc: AIM Center Basics

18. Adjourn • Closing comments • Thank you