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DCMP News & Announcements
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Nourish Short Films
Nourish Short Films are fifty-four clips telling the story of food and explores such themes as farm to fork, food and health, cooking and eating, edible education, and food and community. Speakers include best-selling author Michael Pollan, healthy food advocate Anna Lappé, British chef Jamie Oliver, pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke, eco-chef Bryant Terry, and Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters. Grades 7-12.
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Deaf History Month
We have comprehensive deaf-history resources, both those that are available to registered DCMP members and those that are available to everyone on our YouTube channel.
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Parents’ Choice” Award-Winning Television Programming
Quality television programs have been made accessible through DCMP, and through recipients of five Department of Education (ED) funded television access grants. Programming from one company, Litton Entertainment, has consistently been recognized by Parents’ Choice Children’s Media and Toy Reviews for quality programming. Bridge Multimedia provides description for Litton through the access grants, and titles from the following 2016 award-winning series are being distributed by DCMP: Game Changers; Peg + Cat; The Henry Ford Innovation Nation With Mo Rocca; Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown; Lucky Dog; Ocean Mysteries; Sea Rescue; and lots more.
New Media Releases
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Nadine Burke, M.D.: Food is Health - 2011 - 2 minutes
Nourish is an educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities. In this clip, Dr. Burke explains that nutrition is medicine. Part of the Nourish Short Films Series.
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Surgical Robots - 2009 - 3 minutes
Step into the future of medicine with a look at the surgical robotics being developed at the Johns Hopkins Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology. Here, engineers are designing less invasive surgical techniques and robots that a decade ago may have seemed like science fiction. Many of these techniques are leading to significantly quicker and less painful recoveries while giving surgeons more flexibility than ever before.
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Signing Made Easy - 2009 - 3 minutes
Experts say learning sign language is on par with an English speaker trying to learn Japanese. It’s not easy. And for this reason about 75% of hearing parents can't sign fluently to their deaf children. Thad Starner, director of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech, and his team are developing devices to bridge this communication gap. With funding from the National Science Foundation, they’re making it easier for both kids and parents to learn sign language.
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Hidden Oil Plumes - 2009 - 3 minutes
Will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico create dead zones? That’s the concern of University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye. She’s headed to the gulf to investigate how the oil and methane gas discharged by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill is impacting the ocean microbes that live there. With funding from National Science Foundation, she is also looking at how the dispersants used to break up the oil are impacting marine life, including microbes, fish, and shellfish.
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BPS: Brain Positioning System - 2009 - 3 minutes
What happens in your brain when you get lost or forget something? Johns Hopkins University Neuroscientist Amy Shelton believes she can find the answer. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she’s testing human spatial recognition. Study subjects learn and recall their way around a virtual maze while an MRI scans their brains. By analyzing MRI images of blood flow in the human, Shelton can get a picture of how the brain learns and recalls the spatial world outside the body. By understanding those processes, she believes she can develop techniques that will help improve human memory.