March 14, 2010
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Read for the Record Sets another Record in 2008,
AIT Partners with Pearson Foundation to Distribute This Year’s Featured Book
JumpStart’s campaign to Read for the Record shattered its 2007 record with more than 425,000 participants across the country. Read for the Record events took place in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.—as well as places where military families are stationed around the globe—making it the largest shared reading experience in world history. “One day. One book. For children everywhere. October 2, 2008” featured the Pearson Foundation’s publication of Corduroy, by Don Freeman. AIT again handled distribution for this worthy cause. The $8.99 purchase price of a copy of Corduroy was donated to JumpStart to support that organization’s efforts to spread literacy to underprivileged children across the United States and to kids of military families around the world.
AIT Produces Special Videos for Civics, Math Program
For the second year, AIT has produced a special video for the Center for Civic Education and the Center on Congress that highlights the recipients of the American Civics Education Teacher Award (ACETA). AIT has also produced a promotional video for the Hands-On Equations® program.
AIT’s Service Work Continues to Expand
AIT continues to expand service work for a variety of educational media distributors. Included: metadata development for Learn360, an online instructional media streaming service. AIT has worked with Learn 360 to segment or index hundreds of videos and write descriptive metadata that allow users to access the media in Learn360’s online service. We have also developed metadata for A&E Television Networks content that will be distributed online through the Hot Chalk delivery service.
Math Tutorial DVDs Now Available
AIT has released two Math tutorial DVDs. These DVDs have been specially designed and authored by CaptionMax so that they have menus and enhancements that make them useful for both hearing and sight-impaired persons. Hearing and sight-impaired people can borrow the DVDs at no charge from the Described and Captioned Media Program. Teachers find these enhanced media resources useful for improving vocabulary and reading skills and for helping learners to grasp the math concepts presented on screen. The math DVDs are part of the Digital Math collection of media resources, which includes online practice test questions and more than 150 short video tutorials.