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Bookshare: Accessible Education Materials (AEM) and Information Tools - Day 1

Speaking: Karen Narvol

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Legal Requirements to Provide AEM

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NIMAS & NiMAC

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Request a Book

Starts at 16:13

Managing Member Accounts

Starts at 18:12

Reading Lists

Starts at 32:35

Opening a Book in Web Reader

Starts at 51:35

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How-To-Guide: Help Students Read with Bookshare Web Reader
How-To-Guide: Using Reading Lists

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>> Okay. Good afternoon

everybody and welcome

to our third Bookshare presentation.

And if you are in South Central Pennsylvania,

you would have realized that this morning was icy

and a lot of rain and a lot of slush.

And then Karen Narvol came to PaTTAN

and the rain stopped.

The blue skies and the sun opened up.

And so Karen is our ray of sunshine,

as well as presenting a very good presentation on Bookshare.

I think today we're going to be covering NIMAC, NIMAS,

and book lists.

So I'd like to introduce Karen Narvol.

Oh, also just one more thing.

The session verification --

please -- we're getting better;

we're only down to two people taking the Survey Monkey

before having the code.

If you take the Survey Monkey

and do not have the code

that I’m going to give you at the end of this presentation,

it doesn't count for Act 48 credits.

So I'm looking forward -- we went from, like,

eight to four to two, so I’m thinking next time

we're not going to have anybody take that Survey Monkey ahead of time.

So at the end of this presentation,

right at four o'clock, I'll be giving that code.

So Karen, take it away.

Thank you.

>> Are they seeing my screen?

>> I'm not seeing your screen here.

Mute.

>> Hello everyone. Welcome to Session 3

of the PaTTAN Bookshare Webinar series.

I'm Karen Narvol

and I'll be your presenter for today's session.

Today we're going to be talking about managing Bookshare accounts;

member accounts, student accounts.

We'll also be talking about NIMAS and NIMAC

and Reading Lists.

So the big ideas for today.

Today we'll be exploring the legal requirements

for schools to provide accessible educational materials.

We'll also be discussing NIMAS and NIMAC.

That's the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard

and the National Instructional Materials Access Center.

I'll be demonstrating how sponsors can manage Bookshare member accounts.

And you will learn about Reading Lists

and how sponsors can create

and share Reading Lists with students.

And also you'll be able to --

we'll be discussing how sponsors can provide members access

to shared Reading Lists and the Bookshare Web Reader.

So those are the big ideas for today.

Now what are the legal requirements

to provide accessible educational materials?

Well, the language in IDEA

puts the legal requirements

for providing accessible educational materials

on state and local education agencies.

So state and local education agencies have to ensure

that textbooks and related core instructional materials

are provided to students

who have print disabilities

in specialized formats in a timely manner.

IDEA does not put legal requirements

on the publishers of educational materials;

it puts the legal requirements

on the local education agencies.

IDEA established the NIMAC,

the National Instructional Materials Access Center,

and I'll talk about this in a couple of minutes.

Now timely manner must be defined by states.

And that's mandated in the final regulations

of IDEA 2004.

In most cases, timely manner

means that students with print-related disabilities

should receive their instructional materials

at the same time as their peers.

Now we know that the world of print textbooks

has evolved significantly since IDEA 2004,

and many educational materials are now --

come in digital formats.

And many of these formats are still not accessible.

It is still the responsibility of state and local education agencies

to provide accessible formats

of these materials

to students who need them, in a timely manner.

And this is where Bookshare can help.

It's a source of AEM the schools

can access for students with qualifying print disabilities.

Some students who receive services

under Chapter 15 of the Rehab Act will need AEM.

For students with 504 Plans,

the student's team

needs to consider his or her needs for AEM.

And some students with 504 Plans are going to qualify for Bookshare.

The National Center on Accessible Educational Materials

provides an excellent description

of students who may need AEM.

So if a student cannot read printed text

at grade level

with adequate fluency and comprehension

in order to complete the same types

of instructional tasks

that his or her peers are completing,

or if he or she can't read independently,

or if he or she can't read

what is required to complete academic work

in any number of instructional environments

or to perform required tasks,

then that student may need AEM.

Many students will need AEM,

but not all students are going to qualify for all sources of AEM.

Even though I talked about Pennsylvania's guidelines for the Provision

of Accessible Instructional Materials

in Session 1 of this webinar series,

I think it's important to remind everyone

that this is a very helpful document for schools.

And the guidelines define AEM,

they describe the responsibilities of local education agencies

to provide AEM,

they guide schools in acquiring and managing AEM,

and they describe the PaTTAN AEM Center services,

and they describe related resources.

So it's a very helpful document.

NIMAS and NIMAC.

Well, Bookshare operates under an exception

to the U.S. Copyright Law,

which allows copyrighted digital books

to be made available to people with qualifying disabilities.

And the law states that it is not an infringement

of copyright for an authorized entity --

and Bookshare is an authorized entity --

to reproduce or to distribute copies of materials

if they're reproduced or distributed in specialized formats

exclusively for use by blind

or other persons with disabilities.

So Bookshare is able to maintain an extensive inventory of books.

They get them from another --

a number of different places.

Bookshare receives and or purchases hard copy books regularly,

and their staff and dedicated

volunteers chop, scan, proofread,

and convert them into accessible formats.

Another source of K-12 textbooks

is the National Instructional Materials Access Center, the NIMAC.

And I’m going to be talking about this in just a couple of minutes.

Another source of materials

for Bookshare's library are colleges and universities.

And also, another source are publishers.

And there are many publishers that are Bookshare partners.

So what is the NIMAS?

What is NIMAS?

Well, it's the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard.

And it is -- the NIMAS provision was included in the revised Individuals

with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.

NIMAS files are K-12 textbook files

that have been produced by curriculum publishers

and other content providers

and sent to the NIMAC.

NIMAS files are not student-ready files.

They are well-structured source files

and they are used to create accessible, specialized formats

of print educational materials,

such as braille, audio, large print,

and digital text formats.

The NIMAS standards --

the standard of NIMAS

guides the production and the electronic distribution

of digital instructional materials, such as textbooks,

so they can be more easily converted into accessible formats.

And one of the reasons that the Federal Department of Education

endorsed the National Instructional Materials

Accessibility Standard was the hope

that the accessible content could be produced

in a more cost-effective and expeditious manner.

The NIMAC is the National Instructional Materials Access Center.

It is a repository

of textbook publisher files.

It was established under IDEA.

And when requested by K-12 public school organizations,

Bookshare will get a NIMAS file set from the NIMAC

and convert it into four formats,

specialized formats.

BRF, which is a braille-ready format.

MP3, which is a standard audio format,

DAISY audio and DAISY text format.

And then Bookshare will place those textbooks

in its library.

Now Bookshare is considered an authorized entity,

which means it can access NIMAS file sets,

convert them to specialized formats,

and distribute them to qualified students with print disabilities.

And Bookshare had to register with the NIMAC

as an accessible media producer

and sign a Limitation of Use agreement.

And that was required.

And because of the legal implications

found in the NIMAC Limitation

of Use Agreement, only educators

in K-12 public schools

can download NIMAS-sourced books

from Bookshare for qualifying students.

In addition, only students

who qualify under the Copyright Act

as Amended, the Chafee Amendment,

and have IEPS

are eligible for NIMAC-sourced files.

Students with 504 Plans,

even with qualifying print disabilities,

are not eligible for NIMAC books.

This is a chart that talks about --

or displays the three different types of books in Bookshare's library.

The first are public domain or freely-distributable books.

Anyone can download these books

and there are no qualifications for the use of these books.

A second type of book in Bookshare's library

are books with U.S. copyrights

and books with international permissions.

Sponsors and primary contacts can download books,

and members can download those U.S. copyrighted books.

The members who download these books though,

must be qualified under the Chafee Amendment.

The third type of book in Bookshare's library

are the NIMAC-sourced books.

These are the textbooks that come from the NIMAC.

The only individuals who can download these books are educators

in K-12 U.S. public schools.

There are exceptions for some private schools

and agencies,

but mostly it's for K-12 U.S. public schools.

And the only students

who have access to these books

and can have access to these books

must be qualified under the Copyright Act

as Amended,

and have an IEP.

There is different eligibility requirement for Bookshare than IDEA.

This circle depicts students' eligibility for Bookshare and the NIMAC.

The largest circle encompasses all students.

And then there are circles within this circle.

The smallest circle, which is the green circle,

depicts students who are eligible for NIMAC-sourced textbooks.

Schools play an important role in obligating publishers

to submit NIMAS files to the NIMAC.

So if you are working in a school

that is considering a textbook series for purchase,

you want to make sure

that your school or school district

includes appropriate language in its purchase order

that requires the publisher to submit NIMAS-conformant files to the NIMAC.

Or to provide assurances that they've already done so,

for a specific text title

and a version of that textbook

that the school district plans to purchase.

If the schools do not include this language

on its purchase orders

or on contracts with publishers,

the publishers are under no obligation

to provide NIMAS files to the NIMAC.

So this is the language that can be found

on the AEM.cast.org website.

Now Pennsylvania has designated Bookshare

as a NIMAC-authorized user

for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

which means that K-12 public schools

with organizational accounts

can download NIMAC-sourced books directly from Bookshare.

And this image, this chart,

shows the flow from searching for Bookshare's --

searching Bookshare's website for a textbook.

And if that book is not found in Bookshare,

then Bookshare recommends that the sponsor search the NIMAC.

And if the book is in the NIMAC,

then the sponsor can use the Contact

Us link in Bookshare's website

to request that Bookshare go out to the NIMAC,

get that file set, bring it back,

and convert it.

You can also request a book.

So if the book is not in the NIMAC,

you can request the book through the book request form.

NIMAC will get that book ready for the student

and will send the sponsor an email.

And then the sponsor can download that book.

So if the book is in the NIMAC,

it will take Bookshare anywhere from seven days to two weeks

to put that book in its library.

If you request a book, it can take several months

for that book to be placed in Bookshare's library.

Now how to request a book.

If you want to request that Bookshare add a book to its library,

you have to log in with your primary contact

or sponsor username and password.

And you have to submit a book request.

And these are the links

for getting to that book request page.

Now before you request a book,

you want to make sure that that book isn't in Bookshare's library

and it isn't in the NIMAC.

So you want to search for that book.

And many sponsors often search by --

for books -- using only the ISBN.

Users should be cautious when you search by ISBN.

You want to avoid using ISBN numbers alone

to locate books in Bookshare's website

because ISBNs only identify a particular edition of a book.

You won't see the full range of versions of the book

if you use only the ISBN number

for a search or in the book request.

For example, books come in a variety of versions,

such as hardcover, softcover,

international edition, e-book edition,

and in a language other than English.

These books may have the same exact content,

but they will all have different ISBNs.

So in your search,

make sure to include fields such as author, publisher,

title along with the ISBN

if you want a specific book.

If the hardcover book you are looking for

isn't available in Bookshare's collection,

maybe the softcover edition is available.

In most cases the content will be the same.

So if you're searching or doing a book request,

make sure you add more information than just ISBN.

Search for title, author, publisher as much as you can.

Managing member accounts.

Primary contacts and sponsors manage student accounts

on an organizational membership.

So when a primary contact or sponsor signs in,

they're going to see the My Bookshare page.

This is where you click on various links

to manage the school account.

So once you're here,

if you want to manage the roster of students,

you're going to click on the Add or Update Members

link on this page.

When you do that, you're taken to the Manage Members window.

And this is where you manage the students on your organizational roster.

You can add new members here,

you can search for members,

you can add individual memberships,

you can increment grade level for students

when they go from one grade to the next.

You can sort by schools and sort

by members here.

Now if you want to edit a member's profile,

you would click on the member's last name,

and then you'll be taken to an Edit User window.

And this is where you can change member information.

You can change their school, their grade, their disability,

the type of educational plan,

whether the member is on your Quicklist,

and the member's download preferences.

So this is all under Edit User.

Now some of your qualifying students will have individual memberships

that have been linked to your organizational account.

If the student doesn't have an individual membership,

perhaps due to lack of technology or internet access at home,

or perhaps the sponsor

has been unable to get in contact with a parent,

then the sponsor can assign a username and a password

to that student

and he or she will have access to books

that the sponsor downloads for him or her,

and to books that a sponsor has shared with him or her on shared Reading Lists.

And I'll talk about Reading Lists a little later in this session.

Because you have many students in your school

who may not have individual memberships,

Bookshare offers a way for these students to get access to Reading Lists

and the Bookshare Web Reader through this Edit User window.

So by assigning usernames and passwords to members,

they can access Reading Lists --

shared Reading Lists -- and the Web Reader.

So with the username and password members

can log in to Bookshare independently at school, at home,

or wherever they have internet access.

They can access books

that have been assigned to them

on Reading Lists

or that have been downloaded for them in the My History section.

They can read with the Bookshare Web Reader,

which is a free reading tool that works in a browser.

And they can also read Bookshare books

with other compatible reading tools.

Only students with individual memberships

or who have been assigned a username and password by a sponsor

through an organization can use Bookshare Web Reader.

So if students with individual memberships

that are linked to the school's organizational account

have access to all the access to books in Bookshare's library --

so if a student has an individual membership

that is linked,

they have access to everything.

All the books and materials in Bookshare's library

including NIMAC books

if a sponsor has either downloaded the NIMAC book for them

or put a NIMAC book on their shared Reading List.

Now students with usernames and passwords

do not have access to all books.

They have access to books

that have been downloaded for them

by a sponsor, or books

that have been shared with them on a shared Reading List.

So there are limitations to access for students

who are assigned usernames and passwords.

That's why it's important to try

to get individual memberships for students

if at all possible.

Another management tool is the Quicklist.

So if your school has many qualifying students

on its Bookshare roster,

it can be difficult for sponsors to locate and manage member accounts.

So to make it easy to find your students,

you can put them on your Quicklist.

And the Quicklist is found on the Management page.

Users can add members to a Quicklist

and then filter by that Quicklist.

So here there is --

for adding members to your Quicklist,

you would click on the checkbox in front of the student's name,

and then you would click on the Add Quicklist button.

And then to be able to filter

and find those students on your Quicklist,

you can -- under "Show by" you can show list.

And instead of listing All Members,

you can just show the members on your Quicklist.

And then you click the Filter button.

I'm going to talk about Reading Lists a little later in this session,

but for now on the Member Management page,

if a shared Reading List has already been created by a sponsor,

that sponsor can add a member to his or her shared Reading List.

So the sponsor would select the student's name,

and then select the shared Reading List.

And then once they've selected the shared Reading List,

the sponsor would click Add,

next to "Add to Reading List."

And then that student will be able to open books from the Reading List

that the sponsor has shared with him or her.

On the Member Management page as well, sponsors can see the names

of members who have individual memberships

that have been linked to the organizational account.

This management feature is very helpful for sponsors

because you can tell if a student has a linked individual membership.

And therefore that member can access shared Reading Lists

in the Bookshare Web Reader.

If you don't see the student's name here,

it means that they either don't have an individual membership at all,

or if they do have one, it isn't linked to the organizational membership,

so it isn't showing up here.

So if a student has an individual membership

that the family got on its own

and it hasn't been linked to the organizational account,

the member won't be able to access Reading Lists

that the sponsor has shared with them.

So in the first webinar session we talked about how important

it is for sponsors to help students get individual memberships

and link their individual memberships with organizational memberships.

And so I'm encouraging everyone, if possible --

if you can get individual memberships for students, it's very helpful.

Because I'm using a trainer account

and I don't have any real members

on my roster,

no real students are actually appearing here.

I'm going to demonstrate member accounts

and managing member accounts.

Okay, I'm going to log in with my sponsor account.

I'll log in with my username

and now my password

and I'll click Sign In.

When I sign in to my sponsor account,

it comes up with My Bookshare.

On My Bookshare I have my account.

Underneath the account, I have Add or Update Members.

This is where I manage my members.

So I'll click on that link

and it takes me into the Manage Members page.

And now I can see the members

who are on my roster.

From here I can add members

and do other functions.

If I want to edit the profile of a member,

I would click on their last name

and it would open the Edit User window.

This is where I can go

and I can make changes to my student information.

I can make changes to their account,

to their qualifying information,

to the plan -- the instructional plan they have,

and also their download preferences.

The Member's Download Preferences are right here.

There are Default Download Format

and you can select DAISY

with Images, DAISY Text, Audio --

either MP3 or DAISY Audio,

and braille-ready format as a default download format

for that particular student.

You can also do the same with audio, Image Quality.

If a student is using refreshable braille

or embossed braille,

you can choose the size

and format of the BRF file.

You can choose the braille grade.

The default is Contracted EBAE,

English braille, American Edition.

UEB is not the default.

You would have to choose that.

So this is all under Edit User.

You'll notice up here at the top there is a username and a password.

For students without individual memberships,

if you want them to be able to read books

from a shared Reading List and use the Bookshare Web Reader,

they will need a username and a password.

You can assign a username and also a password here.

Another item here is this Quicklist.

You'll notice that I have two students here on my Quicklist.

If I want to put another student on my Quicklist,

I can edit their profile or I can put a check

in the checkbox before their name and click

the Add to Quicklist button.

Once I do that, you'll notice

that this student now is on my Quicklist.

Now if I want to filter

and find only the students on my Quicklist,

I come up here to "Show by,"

and I'm going to show by List.

And instead of All Members,

I'm going to only view My Quicklist Members.

And then I have to click on the Filter button to see them.

And when I click on the Filter button,

I see only the students that I have on my Quicklist.

This is very helpful if you have a hundred kids

with different disabilities in your school or school district

and you're only serving 10 of them,

and you want those 10 on your Quicklist.

It's much easier to find them if you put them on your Quicklist.

So that's under List, All Members,

and My Quicklist.

Now you can also add students to a shared Reading List.

So if a --

you have a number of Reading Lists here,

and at the bottom you'll see Add to Reading List.

I can select a student,

or more than one student if I want to,

and if there is a Reading List that's already been created

and shared,

I can select that Reading List

and add that student to that Reading List.

And it says "The selected members have been added

to the Reading List '8th grade Reading List.'"

Another management tool is here.

The View Individual Members.

And this is where you go to view any member

that you have, any student that you have,

who has an individual membership

that is linked to the organizational membership.

And they will be listed here.

Reading Lists.

Reading Lists are like bookshelves.

Both sponsors and members can create their own Reading Lists.

And they can compile titles

all in one location,

which is a Reading List.

This means that you can add books to Reading Lists,

which helps you organize and classify books you've downloaded

or you want to download at a later time.

Sponsors can create shared Reading Lists

and easily share them with students for instant access,

including NIMAC books.

So when -- with Reading Lists, members

can download books independently.

And so what we encourage

is that sponsors create Reading Lists

for a particular class or for a particular student.

The student can store an unlimited number

of books on a Reading List,

they can download books directly from their Reading Lists,

and [INAUDIBLE]

Reading List of recommended titles for each student.

Now currently Reading Lists cannot be shared between sponsors.

That means one sponsor cannot share their Reading List

with another sponsor.

And it's also true with members.

Members cannot share Reading Lists with other members.

That is a current situation;

it may change in the future.

Now with Reading Lists you create virtual bookshelves

that help you stay organized

and save books that you can download anytime,

anywhere you have the internet.

Or you can share with students with individual memberships

or who have usernames and passwords

so they can download and read on their own.

Even the NIMAC textbooks.

It's a way to stay organized by keeping all of your books

in one place.

It's very helpful for sponsors

because they no longer have to manage multiple files

for multiple students on multiple school computers.

All of the books live in Reading Lists

on the Bookshare website.

There is a really nice training video

and information about Reading Lists

and the Bookshare Web Reader

on this link at the bottom.

The access for this,

as far as Reading Lists go,

is only currently available on computers.

It's not yet available on tablets or other mobile devices.

Just computers at this time.

Now to create a Reading List,

you have to log in to Bookshare.

And on the left side of the window

is a link to My Reading Lists.

You will click on this link

and then you will click on the Create Reading List button

on the right.

The Create Reading List window will appear

and you will name your Reading List.

You can also provide a description,

but this is optional.

Then next to -- after you name it,

next to Status,

you want to make sure

if you're going to share this Reading List,

that you have "Reading List

is visible to all Reading List members" selected

if you want to share it with --

this Reading List with students.

Otherwise the Reading List may be kept private

and only you will be able to see it.

It won't be -- visible to only yourself.

And then when you have named it

and you have chosen the status, you'll click the Save button.

And this creates the Reading List.

So once you

[INAUDIBLE], you'll be told

that the Reading List has been successfully created.

Now at this point,

you can add titles to the Reading List.

Books to the Reading List.

In order to add those books,

you have to search using the search box,

or you have to use the Advanced Search

or the Browse links

to locate a book

that you want to save into your Reading List.

The search results will return the title of your book.

So here I put in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

as the book I'm looking for.

And at this point,

when that search result comes back,

I have the option over here

on the right of adding

that book to my Reading List under the Action button.

The Action tab here. So you have Add to Reading List.

And then you can select the Reading List --

you'll get a drop-down box

and you'll have a choice of Reading Lists

where you want to put that book.

This is the table view

when you're adding a book to a Reading List.

So this is looking at it from a table view.

This is looking at it from a list view.

So if you search on the book "To Kill a Mockingbird," you're going

to see Add to Reading List

here and then when you click on adding to Reading List, you will get a list

of the current Reading Lists

and you can choose the one you want and click the Add button.

So it doesn't matter whether you're in the table view

or the list view.

Now this is what a member is going to see

when they look at their Reading Lists.

They'll go into their account --

they'll log in, they'll see My Bookshare,

and here they'll see My Reading Lists.

And the Reading Lists will be Reading Lists

that the student has created

and the ones that were created by the sponsor.

So they'll be listed right here.

And they can choose then a Reading List.

And when they choose a Reading List, they'll see the books

that have been put on their Reading List.

So this is a "12th grade literature books"

and these are the books that have been put there.

They'll also -- you'll also notice

that when a student sees the books

that have been put on their Reading List --

either they've done it

or they've been assigned these books

by their sponsor --

they will see a Read Now link.

If they click [INAUDIBLE]

browser, whatever browser they're working in,

and it will open the Bookshare Web Reader.

And it will open that book

right in the Bookshare Web Reader.

This Read Now button is available

only for students who are signed in with their individual memberships.

So if they have their individual membership username

and password, they'll see this.

Or if they have a username and password

that has been assigned to them by a sponsor,

they'll see this Read Now feature.

Sponsors do not see this Read Now.

So as a sponsor,

if you go into see all of the books

on a Reading List that you've created,

you will not see the Read Now.

Only members with individual memberships

see that Read Now link.

Now these are the steps for sharing a Reading List with a member.

So in My Bookshare you're going to select My Reading Lists.

You're going to select the Reading List

you want to share.

You're going to determine what members

you want to share that Reading List with.

You're going to add members to that Reading List.

So this is what it looks like.

This is a "9th and 10th Grade Summer

Reading" list.

So that has been created.

This title "The Book Thief"

is going to be added to that Reading List.

And then for the Reading List,

you have Members.

You choose your members

by selecting them in the checkboxes,

and add the selected members

to this Reading List.

Okay. I'm going to demonstrate how to create and share a Reading List.

I'm in My Account, my sponsor account.

I'm going to create a Reading List.

I'll do that by clicking

on the Reading List link here on the --

under My Bookshare.

When I do, I see the Reading Lists

that I've created.

I'm going to create a Reading List.

I'll click on the button that says Create Reading List.

Now I have to give it a name.

So I'll give it the name "Summer Reading 2016."

I can always give it a description if I want.

It's optional.

I have two choices here for Status.

"Reading List is visible to all Reading List members"

or "The Reading List is only visible to the owner."

If you want to share this Reading List with members,

you have to use the "Reading List

is visible to all Reading List members."

And now you can click the Save button.

Okay. Now we have --

the Reading List has been established.

But we don't have any titles in it.

It tells us that the Reading List is currently empty.

So to add a book to this list

we're going to have to use the Search or the Browse.

So if I use the Search, I can come up here

and I can type the name of a book.

And I'll search for that book.

And here I have the title "Black Beauty."

And over here on the right under Action,

I can add this book

"Black Beauty" to a Reading List.

So I’m going to click Add to Reading List.

And I get the drop-down box.

And I can decide where I want to put that title.

Into what Reading List.

Well, I'm going to put it into the one

I just created which is the Summer Reading 2016.

And I'm going to click Add.

And it says that book has been added

to the Reading List "Summer Reading 2016."

So if I click on that link,

it brings up my Summer Reading 2016 Reading List,

and I see that this book has been added.

This title has been added.

The next thing I want to do is I want to assign members

to this shared Reading List.

So I'll click on the Members tab

and it says there are no members here.

To add members,

I have to click on "Add members."

And now I can go into my roster

and I can choose members

that I want to add to that Reading List.

So I'll check the checkboxes

in front of their names

and then I will click on "Add selected members."

And now these are the members

who are now sharing the titles

in this Summer Reading 2016 list.

Okay? So I have my Titles,

"Black Beauty."

And I have my Members.

Now students who have an individual membership

or have been assigned a username and password

by a sponsor

can now read Bookshare books in the Bookshare Web Reader.

Sponsors cannot read books in the Web Reader

unless they use the Bookshare Individual Demo Account.

And I'll show you what that is in another slide or so.

A student can search for a book or they can select a book

from My Reading Lists and click on the Read Now link.

So here we have -- they have the Read Now

and they can click on that

and it will take them into the Bookshare Web Reader.

Now this is what the Bookshare Web Reader looks like.

The Bookshare Web Reader is a reading tool

and it will open in the browser

that you're using.

If you open the book in Chrome or Safari browser,

there is a text-to-speech function

that will read the text aloud.

The first time a member uses the Read Now feature

in Chrome,

Chrome will ask the user to install a text-to-speech extension in Chrome.

It's just a one --

one procedure.

And you only do it at the beginning.

Safari already has text-to-speech capability built in,

so you don't have to add anything.

If the student or the member is opening the book

in Firefox or Internet Explorer

or Microsoft Edge,

there is no text-to-speech option.

So therefore the user would have to use a screen reader application

to hear the text read aloud.

Now this is a demo account for the Web Reader.

So if you're a sponsor,

you can use this demo username

and password

to get into an account

that looks like a student or a member account.

And you can see how the Web Reader

works by signing in with these username and password.

So let me demonstrate this.

In order to open and read a book in the Bookshare Web Reader,

I'm going to need to log in with the demo account.

So I have to log out of my account,

my sponsor account.

And I'm going to log in to the individual demo account.

So it's individualdemo@bookshare.org,

and the password is "memberdemo."

And I'll sign in.

Okay. This is --

this mimics a student

or a member login and account.

And so I'm here in My Bookshare.

And as a student I'm going to look

into the Reading Lists

that I have been assigned and shared with me.

I'm going to see what is in the My Favorites Reading List

and I'm going to choose a book in the My Favorites

Reading List to read in the Bookshare Web Reader.

And I am using Chrome -- the Chrome browser.

So I have a number of books that have been assigned to me,

and I can read them.

And so I'm going to start with "Black Beauty,"

and I’m going to click on the Read Now button

here next to "Black Beauty."

And what it will do is it will open that book

right into the Web Reader.

And I can begin to read that book

by using some of the tools here on the toolbar.

>> "Chapter 01 My Early Home.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow

with a pond of clear water in it.

Some shady trees leaned over it,

and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field,

and on the other we looked over a gate

at our master's house,

which stood by the roadside;

at the top of the meadow was a grove of fir trees,

and at the bottom a running brook overhung

by a steep bank."

>> So that was an example

of reading a book

using a Reading List

where a book has been shared with a student.

And then that student was able to access that Reading List and access the title --

a title in that Reading List, which was "Black Beauty."

Click on that

and it opened in the Bookshare Web Reader.

Of course this is Chrome;

Safari would work the same way

because you have the text-to-speech option here.

If you're using Firefox or Microsoft Edge

or Internet Explorer,

you will see this speaker here,

but it will not be active.

You will not have any text-to-speech.

So before we close today,

I would just like to talk about our action plan for next time.

I would like everyone

who is working with Bookshare,

if you are working with students

who do not have individual memberships,

I'd like you to assign them usernames and passwords

so that they can start using shared Reading Lists

and the Bookshare Web Reader.

Then you can practice creating a Reading List,

and then adding at least one book

to that Reading List.

And then sharing that Reading List with one or more members.

And if you feel adventuresome

and the student or the member feels adventuresome

and they want to read that book in the Bookshare Web Reader,

you could encourage them to do that.

>> Okay.

Thank you, Karen.

And as you see, the web address for the Survey Monkey is there.

You can go there and complete that.

And input the code

s5nk8b.

That's s5nk8b.

And we did have some questions,

but I lost them on my computer,

so I can't find them.

One question was, Can you use it with Chrome?

Bookshare.

>> Yes, you can use the --

you can use Bookshare with any browser.

But if you're -- if a student is using the Bookshare Web Reader --

so they have a book that they've search

for or a book

that has been placed on their Reading List

and they click the Read Now button,

the Chrome browser

has a text-to-speech extension

that will be loaded or installed.

And they can actually hear the text read aloud.

So yes, it does work with Chrome.

>> Okay. And if you could just click your panel.

And here's the questions. Okay.

>> Okay, we're looking for more questions, so ...

>> And right here. And click this ...

uh-oh.

I made it disappear.

>> Okay.

Do we ask Susan or ...?

>> Yeah.

Beth or Susan, if you could --

>> Beth or Susan, if we're having a little bit

of problems here with seeing the questions,

are there questions that I can answer

that you see on the chat --?

>> Karen. >> Yes?

>> Karen, can you hear me? I'll read them to you.

>> Sure. >> This says,

"When I assign a book it tells me to download it.

I do not have Read Now."

>> Okay.

As a sponsor, you will not see Read Now.

Only members or students

that have individual memberships

and are logging in with their individual membership username or password,

or if they have a username and password

that was assigned to them by their sponsor,

will see the Read Now.

Sponsors and primary contacts

will never see Read Now on anything

when they log in with their login credentials.

The Read Now is only for members and only members

with individual memberships are going to see that.

But if you want to see how it works,

you can sit, of course, with your student.

If your student has an individual membership

or username and password,

you can sit with that student and get in.

And then it will --

you'll be able to see what they're seeing.

>> Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry ...

>> We're getting some feedback here.

>> Doug, you'll want to mute yourself.

>> Yeah, Doug is trying to do that.

>> Okay. >> I think -- okay.