November
17, 2004
Holt, Rinehart
and Winston Launch New Spanish Curriculum
Expresate employs
instructional and multisensory learning techniques that connect students
to Spanish-speaking countries, their arts, culture and people, while
teaching them to converse in Spanish. The company consulted a team of
instructional design experts and classroom teachers when creating Expresate.
Holt video staff traveled over 40,000 miles around the world to collect
video, photographs, and audio accounts of Spanish life, which were developed
into a full complement of visual and audio supplementary materials to
further immersion in Spanish culture. Many of these visual and audio
components are integrated into the online textbook version of Expresate
and all are available on VHS, DVD or CD-ROMs. Expresate is available
in Levels 1, 2 and 3 for high-school grades and Levels 1A and 1B for
middle school grades.
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Texas Defines
Marriage for the Entire Country?
When the Texas Board
of Education said they would only approve Holt, Rinehart and Winston
and Glencoe/McGraw Hill middle and high school health textbooks for
adoption if they defined marriage as between a man and a woman, they
may have defined marriage for the entire country. Texas's argument for
the change was that it follows a Texas law that defines marriage as
being between a man and a woman. Since Texas is one of the largest textbook
adopters in the country, publishers tend to want to make them happy.
But Texas's demands may cause the rest of the country to have to use
the textbooks whether they agree with the wording or not unless publishers
print an unedited version for non-Texans.
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TAA Members Can
Attend CCC Event Free
The Copyright Clearance
Center will be holding another Beyond the Book event at the San Francisco
Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center December 2 from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m., with a post-conference networking reception from 8 p.m. to
9 p.m. TAA members are invited to attend free of charge. The event will
feature special guest panelist Ken Goffman, founder of Mondo 2000, the
iconoclastic magazine that defined the digital culture of the early
nineties, and author of Counterculture Through the Ages, the first book
ever to look at the concept of counterculture throughout human history.
Other panelists include Mike Kanellos, editor at large of CNET News.com,
Gary Luke, editorial director of Sasquatch Books, and Glenna Matthews,
author of Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream. The first
20 registered attendees will get the opportunity to sign up for a free
book proposal review by literary agent (and TAA member and advisor)
Michael Lennie.
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Council
of Fellows Applications Due November 30
TAA is now accepting
applications to the Council of Fellows, which honors distinguished authors
who have a long record of successful and diversified publications. Any
author whose textbooks or academic articles have established his/her
presence in their field over time and who has been innovative in the
presentation of material may apply. Fellows are provided with special
engraved medallions upon induction. They also receive free lifetime
membership in TAA. Applications are due November 30, 2004. They should
be sent to TAA, P.O. Box 76477, St. Petersburg, FL 33734. For information
and to download application instructions, click
here. For more info, contact Janet Tucker at (727) 563-0020.
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Texty, McGuffey
Judges Needed
TAA needs judges
for its Texty/McGuffey Awards in the following areas: Mathematics/statistics;
computer science/engineering; physical sciences; life sciences; and
humanities/social sciences/accounting/business/economics/management.
The one page evaluation would be due by March 1, 2005. Books would be
sent in January. Contact Margaret at TAAmargaret@tampabay.rr.com
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2005 TAA Convention
To Be Held in Las Vegas
TAA's 2005 annual
convention will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada in June. Jay Black and
John Wakefield will serve as co-chairs.
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