- Professional Development: PD 2004
- Camps, Sport and Recreation: Space camp 2004, SCORE camp
by participant Bryony
- Assistive Technology: E-text Resources, PocketViewer
and QuickLook, Free Internet Browsing Tool, Computer tips for Windows XP,
Styles in Word, Word of Mouth Technology
- Information for Family and Student: Glaucoma
support group, University News
- VCE: Expo
- DE&T: Significant Dates, Vacancies
- An AT (or VT) in the NT: From our northern correspondent
- SVRC: Contact Details
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Bulletin 3, 5th March 2004
- Professional Development: VCE PD day report by Joanna Sims,
PD session audio tapes available
- VCE: VCE exam timetable, VCE high performance pack, VCE
– audio tape & CD commentaries
- VT Caseload: A child with PDD – article by Dr Mike
Steer
- VI students with additional impairments: Tactile Awareness
Activities
- Braille: Braille Production at the SVRC, Braille Recipe
Book
- DE&T: Interpreting Services
- From the Field: Seminar – Talking mobile phones,
Vizhelp email group, UK: Accessible formats copyright law, Work experience
resource
- Staff and Student News: VCAL Award, More student news including
RVIB Bursaries for 2004, Staff News
- SVRC News: New speed limit for street in front of SVRC
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Bulletin 4, 18th March 2004
- Professional Development: Educational Support for Students
with Low Vision Day - Reminder, Educational Support for Blind Students - Report,
Round Table Conference - Sydney 2004, Spectronics Summer Conference, Communication
Aids Training
- VCE: Special Arrangements, Past VCE Exam Papers, Book Review
– VCE Survival Guides, Post School Options, Making a Smooth Transition
to Tertiary
- Sport and Recreation: VAF Come n Try Day - Report, Swish
Players, Victorian Secondary Schools Sports Association
- Braille: Tried & True Braille Teaching Strategies,
Foreign Languages in Braille
- For your Computer (hardware, software & internet):
Free Books in MP3 Format, Fun Websites, Impact Keyboards, Mimio Upgrade, WordWeb,
E-Dictionary and E-Atlas, Computer Tip - Control & Roll (try it, you'll
like it!), Past VCE Exam Papers, BrailleNote Manuals, A Cautionary Tale -
Back up your Files!!!!!
- Workshops and Forums: RVIB College Workshops, National
Youth Week Forums
- Audio Described Video & DVD
- Vision Related Information: Colour Vision, Disclosure,
Why it’s Important to Join the BCA
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Bulletin 5, 2nd April 2004
- Professional Development: PD Program for Term 2, Educational
Support for Blind Students PD Day – More Feedback, Educational Support
for Vision Impaired Students with Additional Impairments, Learning about Low
Vision
- Information, Articles and Websites Relating to Vision Impairment:
Selecting and Using Low Vision Devices, Aniridia Website, JVIB: Feb 2004
- Assistive Technology: On Purchasing a Computer, Computer
Tip - Getting Rid of Pop-ups, Screen Modification Tutorials, Alternative Cursors,
Pocket Viewer for Sale, Quote for Mimio
- Camps, Sport and Recreation: Space Camp 2004, Auskick Program
– Invitation for VI Kids, Short Term Care/Holiday Camps
- For Senior Students: Network of Students with Disabilities
Discussion List
- A Low Vision Session in a School
- Information for Families: Parent Organisations –
VizHelp, NAPVI, VAPVI, Siblings of Children with Disabilities
- Texts on CD-ROM: Report 2004
- Staff and Student News: Student's Writing
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Bulletin 6, 23rd April 2004
- Professional Development: 2004: SVRC PD, Concord Education
Support Centre, Upcoming Events, RVIB College
- Resources for Supporting Students with Vision Impairments:
Modern Cursive Fonts – Downloads, The Ultimate Talking Dictionary
- National and International: School Funding, Research Projects
(Computing and Internet-Related Technologies, Teaching and Supporting Students
with Vision Impairments), Unified English Braille Code
- Support Groups and Organisations: Young Blind Citizens,
VAPVI Meeting, VizHelp Excursion
- Camps and Activities: Great Victorian Bike Ride 2004, SCORE
2004
- Websites: Useful DE&T Websites - Hardware and Software
Suppliers, Spybot, Disability Culture in Children’s Literature
- Personal Perspectives: Whoops! I have Missed the Seat Again!,
Personal Security Tips, Life Coping Skills
- Exhibitions and Festivals: 4Sight Photographic Exhibition,
The Other Film Festival
- From VT Land: Business and Pleasure?, Pularumpi (Northern
Territory) Visit
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Bulletin 7, 7th May 2004
- Professional Development: PD Day - Educational Support
for Vision Impaired Students with Additional Impairments, Round Table Conference,
Training for Communication Aids, JVIB Articles
- Adaptive Technology: Mobile Phone - Where to find more
information, TLC for your BrailleNote, Low Vision Web Browsing Tool, Changing
Font Size
- VCE Exam timetable
- From the Field: Swimming Cook Strait, Book Review
- Interesting Website: Pictorial History of Braille Writing
Machines
- For Teachers, Aides and Parents: What is Dyspraxia?, Program
for Students with Disabilities
- For Students: How to get a Job
- Feature Article: Recreation and Vision Impairment
- Staff and Student News: including Faye's visit to Kiribati
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Bulletin 8, 21st May 2004
- Professional Development 2004: PD Day - Educational Support
for Vision Impaired Students with Additional Impairments, JVIB Articles
- Recreation: Auskick – Invitation for Students with
Vision Impairments, Southern Cross Games 2004, Paintings that Speak Volumes
- Open Days: Universities, TAFEs and Independent Tertiary
Colleges
- Websites for Students and Young Adults: NICAN, Careers,
Cooking in the Dark
- Websites for Parents and Teachers: Active Learning, Preparing
for the Workplace
- From the Field: Braille Product Signage, VAPVI News, Retititis
Pigmentosa - Personal Accounts
- Staff and Student News: Letter from a Student: Support
Skills Program, Murphy’s Law for the VTS by Denise Probert
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Bulletin 9, 4th June 2004
- Professional Development: PD 2004, *New* Mimio Workshop,
SPEVI Conference, Hadley – Free VI Distance Education, JVIB, Post Graduate
Scholarships
- For Teachers and Parents: Support Group Meeting, Hark the
Sound (Sound Game for Kids), Braille Tactile Signs
- For Students: WBU-AP Braille Writing Essay Competition,
Hark the Sound (Sound Game for Kids)
- For Your Computer: Touch Typing Tutor, XP Shortcuts and
Keyboard Commands
- Feature Article #1: Social Interaction
- Feature Article #2: Tactual Graphics
- News: An AT (or VT) in the NT, Staff News, SVRC News, Student
News, Perspective on Vision
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Bulletin 10, 18th June 2004
- Professional Development: PD for 2004, Term 2 VT Day Report
- Camps and Recreation: Space Camp 2004, Mt Baw Baw Do It
Yourself Ski Camp!!!, Fun Walk or Run
- For Families: Support Group - Term 2 and 3
- For Students: Road Safety O&M Morning, Dickenson Literary
Competition, Website that Talks
- Important Information for VIPs: Travel Pass Renewal
- Technology: RVIB Adaptive Technology Helpdesk, RAVE Competition
- From the Field: RVIB Further Education Bursary Recipients,
Cooking in the Dark – Discussion List
- Feature Article: Kiribati Experience by Faye Squires
- News: SVRC, Staff and Student News
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Bulletin 11, 16th July 2004
- Professional Development: Programs offered by the SVRC
for term 3, VT PD Day Term 3, Programs offered by the Concord Education Support
Centre
- Camps and Recreation: Space Camp 2004, Great Victorian
Bike Ride 2004, GDV Grampians Camp, Link to Article on Scuba Diving
- For Teachers, Parents and Students: Coping with RP, Young
Blind Citizens Victoria
- Feature Article #1: Bill Brown - A Youngster with Very
Difficult Behaviors - Whose Problem?
- Feature Article #2: Black Belt - White Cane
- News From The Field: Changes to DE&T Disability Funding,
Merger for Blindness Agencies, New Disability Organisation, Australian Braille
Authority Meetings for 2004, SVRC Staff and Student News
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Bulletin 12, 30th July 2004
- Professional Development: Statewide Vision Resource Centre,
Mountbatten BYO Group, EMR Student Disability Conference, Round Table 2004
Conference Report
- Camps and Recreation: Space Camp 2004, EASE Ticketing -
Why Not Join Up?
- Resources for Schools: Multicultural Education Resource
Centre, Eating Disorders Resource for Schools, Chemicals
- From the Field: TACPAC - Communicating through Touch, BrailleNote,
Brief Notes from Interesting Articles, Jot a Dot, PAC Mate, Nystagmus Network,
Aniridia Network, Visability Issue featuring the Right to Read
- Feature Article: Using Minidisk Reader-Writer as a Learning
Tool
- For Visiting Teachers: Equipment in Schools, New References
at the SVRC, June 2004, VCAA Website - Past Exams, Assessment Reports,
Exam Timetables etc
- For Students: Melbourne University Discovery (Open) Day,
Talking Books on CD, VCAA Website - Past Exams, Assessment Reports, Exam Timetables
etc
- SVRC News: Staff and Student News, Referrals to Psychologist
Geoff Bowen
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Bulletin 13, 13 August 2004
- Professional Development: SVRC PD for term 3, Visiting
Teacher PD Day Report: Siblings, Visiting Teacher PD Day Report: Blueprint
for Government Schools, Window Eyes Workshop: Report
- Assistive Technology (with a focus on e-text and keyboarding skills):
E-Text - Lea's Favourite Shortcuts, E-text - What is it?, Keyboarding Skills,
Fun Keyboarding for the Reluctant Typist, ‘Big Keys’ Keyboard
- Camps and Recreation: GDV: Sydney Trip (applications close
soon), GDV RP Weekend: Report, Sports ‘Come ‘N’ Try Day
- Feature Article: Australian Braille: A Fragmented Future?
– Article by Dr Mike Steer
- Schools, VCE and Beyond: Changed Requirements for VCE Eligibility,
RMIT Disability Co-ordination Officers
- Funding and Scholarships: Making Schools Boy Friendly,
DE&T Disability Funding Levels for 2005, Freedom Scientific Scholarship
Program (applications close soon)
- Staff and Student: News, Braille Pen Pal Wanted, Braille
Request Forms for Schools
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Bulletin 14, 27th August 2004
- Professional Development: SVRC PD Program for Term 3, September
Courses at RVIB College, Mini PD on Magnification Options – Report,
Invitation to Submit a Paper to the 1st iNet Online Conference
- Camps and Activities: Space Camp 2004
- For Visiting Teachers and Senior Students: Changes to Special
Entry Access Scheme to Tertiary Institutions, Invitation to RVIB VTAC Application
Day - 8 September, September Courses at RVIB College, University of Western
Sydney - Open Day
- Funding and Scholarships: Application Process for the Program
for Students with Disabilities 2005, Disability Studies Scholarships &
Ethel Temby Study Tour Awards
- Assistive Technology: Touch Typing Tutor and TTTutor Key
Commands, Making a Talking Book Using PowerPoint, Cheap Flash Drives
- From the Field: 4sight Week Coming Soon, VisTech Newsletter
– August 2004, RT News - August 2004
- Literacy: New Perkins Panda Early Literacy Program for
Vision Impaired Children
- Article Summary: “Connecting Research on RP to the
Practice of O&M”
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Bulletin 15, 10th September 2004
- Professional Development: PD for Term 4, SVRC EXPO, SPEVI
Conference News, Seminar – Behaviour as Communication
- Recreation: Accessible Viewing: Impressionists
- Assistive Technology: Product Review: Universal Reader
Plus, Two Free Voice Softwares, Tip for Laptop Batteries, Hoax & Scam
Emails
- Feature Article #1: Calling for New Visiting Teachers
- Feature Article #2: SVRC Ventures into the Digital Age
- From the Field: CBMI on the Move, BiTS Update, DeafBlind
Website, RVIB Publications
- For Students and Families: Albinism Website
- Staff and Student News: Student Work: “Off with the
Fairies”, Book Review: Beyond the Red Door, News from the Tactile Projects
Department, Digital Measurer for Maps, Staff & Student News
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Bulletin 16, 8th October 2004
- Professional Development and SVRC Events: SVRC EXPO, SPEVI
Conference, Parent Support Group
- Information for VTs, Parents and Students: RVIB Try Day,
2005 Further Education Bursary, Futures for Young Adults
- Feature Article #1: A Position on High Stakes Testing for
Students with Special Needs
- Feature Article #2: Meeting Diverse Needs in the Classroom
- From the Field: Eye Research Australia – Clear Insight
Report, Test of Proficiency in English Literary Braille
- Review: Computer Game - “Grizzly Gulch”
- Staff and Student News: Space Campers Return Home, Staff
News
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Bulletin 17, 29th October 2004
- Professional Development: Workshops: PAC mate, myReader
and WYNN, Product Reviews: myReader, – August 2004 and September
2004, SPEVI Conference – Volunteers Needed
- Senior Students: Glossary of VCE Acronyms, Post School
Options
- Camps and Recreation: New Vision Camp - January 2005
- From the Field: Discrimination Case, Access to the Law
for People with Vision Impairments (CD), CVI Website, National Parent’s
Forum, EnVision including ‘Working Through Change’, Tactual Drawings
and Maps
- Feature Article #1: Brooke Fox - Music CD Review (and some
reflections on her unique life with albinism)
- Feature Article #2: Autism Spectrum Disorder
- For VTs: Travel Claim Forms in Electronic Format and New
Travel Rates
- For VTs and Parents: Games for Kids with Low Vision, Student
Scholarships
- News: Staff and Student News, Another Approach to Teaching
Touch Typing
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Bulletin 18, 12th November 2004
- Professional Development: EXPO, PAC Mate and myReader PD
Report, RVIB College Training Sessions, Thinking Conference, CVI PD, SPEVI
Conference Volunteers
- Camps and Recreation: New Vision Camp 2005, News from Guide
Dogs Victoria Children’s Mobility Service
- Feature Article #1: Effective Homework Habits for Students
with Vision Impairments
- Resources for Teachers and Parents: AUSLAN Sign Bank, Resource
Gateway: Refugee Children
- Adaptive Technology and Accessible Resources: BrailleNote
PK, Next Mac OS X Version with Voice, Universal Design of Learning Materials
- Post School Option: FutureFlex
- For VTs and Schools: Booklists for 2005
- Staff and Student News: Student Writing, Thanks, News
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Bulletin 19, 26th November 2004
- Professional Development: SVRC PD 2005, Masters in Special
Education, October 2004, CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: SPEVI COUNCILLOR 2005-2007
- Assistive Technology: Windows XP Access Features, Searching
the Net in a Less Cluttered Way, Text-to-Speech & Text-to-Audio –
a Few Notes, Font for VIPs, Mountbatten for Sale
- From the Field: VI Students in Northern Kenya, The Other
Film Festival, National Library for the Blind (UK), Low Cost Eye Care and
Glasses, Social Skills Resources, Early Braille Readers Project
- DE&T News: Blueprint, Principal Class Workload, Changes
to Software Rolling Fund
- Staff and Student News: News, Student Writing, Christmas
Morning Tea
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Bulletin 20, 10th December 2004
- Professional Development: EXPO 2004, SPEVI and Your Membership
- From the Field: Tactile Signs, Computer Users Group, CD
Audio Books, World Youth Championships, BCA’s Employment Page
- Assistive Technology: OnLine Newsletter, Switch-Activated
Games, Assistive Technology Tutorials
- Funding and Assistance for Students with Disabilities:
Program for Students with Disabilities 2005, Vision Impaired Peoples Aid Foundation,
Entry Point, Circle Concept
- Christmas Resources: A Multicultural Christmas, Santa Claus
is Coming to Town (selecting gifts for children with vision and/or hearing
impairments), Computer Games for the Whole Family, Christmas Worksheets and
Activities – for Schools, VTs etc, Other Sources of Somewhat Educational
Traditional and Multicultural Christmas Ideas
- News: Mountbatten for Sale, Staff and Student News (including
an idea for students who miss out on the school camp), SVRC Back in the White
Pages
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Bulletin 21, 17th December 2004
- Christmas Wishes and Thank Yous
- Assistive Technology: Vision Tech Website Updated, Equipment
Grants
- Professional Development: SPEVI Executive Positions Vacant,
SPEVI Conference, Unified English Braille Workshop
- Feature Article #1: Blind Film Maker
- Idea for Beginning Braillies
- News: Staff and Student News, Bulletin 2005, VT Contact
Details
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