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Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

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For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
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Still image from: Real City Heroes: Sergeant Cooper the Police Car--The Case of the Missing Garbage (Part 5)

Side view of a red fire engine as it drives on a street with factory towers in the background.

C, G, I William Watermore the fire truck spraying water onto vehicle that's on fire. They are amongst power transformers in a power station in the middle of a city.

Sepia tone image of a police officer in uniform leaning on his squad car near the right rear passenger door as he talks to a small crowd of teenagers. Caption, narrator talking. We'll cover why belonging to a gang.

White text on a light blue background with balance scaled illustrated above reads, "Rights and Responsibilities for Kids."

Still image from: Rituals of the World: Haiti--The Carnival of Specters

Film still shows 2 girls and a young woman wearing 1900s attire in sun hats and dresses.

Still image from: Sarah & Duck: Bubble Bumbling

Still image from: Sarah & Duck: The Art of Pink

Graphic of the globe suspended above flags from multiple countries with an ethernet cable in front. Spanish captions.

Person holding a phone with a photo displayed on the screen. Spanish captions.

Woman with long blond hair looks at camera with her head tilted up slightly and her lips parted as she speaks. Shelves with books and file boxes fill background on the right.

People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.

A computer drive. Caption: to build out a wide-ranging, urban-sensing project

Young woman wearing headphones speaks into a microphone and faces away from camera in a darkened foreground. A young man and young woman watch her through a window in the background.

Person handling a partially ripe strawberry still on the vine. Caption: "What can we plant? What's the rotation strategy?"

Map with areas shaded in different colors and patterns. Some locations are identified with text and others have lines of various patters indicating potential behavior of the fire. Caption: Their software will generate behavior models of the fire,

Still image from: Seven Dogs (Spanish)

Nicaraguan children lean against a post, standing beneath a line of clothes in a jungle setting. Spanish caption. La mayoría de las personas mayores, no tuvimos ni escuela.

Architectural model of skyscraper with city below. Caption. This skyscraper will cost $100 billion to construct.

Title card on rusty light brown background reads, "Civilization is a complex society with 5 characteristics. Advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology."

Portal side of a Gothic cathedral framed by leafy branches in the foreground. Spanish caption. Fue necesario establecer gobiernos.

Closeup of interconnected beam structure with train and cityscape in background.

Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: Brrr...How Cold!

Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: The King's Speech

Still image from: StoryMakers With Thyra Heder ("Sal Boat: A Boat by Sal")

Still image from: StoryMakers With Valerie Bolling ("Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun")

Person kneeling on the ground next to a pile of dark material. Caption: which sells fashion items made from recycled garbage.

Crowd of Swazi children and women stand in front of a building. Caption. I don't know how many of us live here.

Middle aged man in a suit stands in front of a large conference table. He looks at camera as he speaks and gestures with both hands.

Title card on blue background reads, "Rob's Test Tips. Answer Out of Order. It's O, K to Guess. Best Way to "Bubble In."

Bill Gates dressed in a suit and tie with a microphone clipped to his tie.

View from behind of singer Allegra Jordan, standing on a stage in front of a spotlight as the edges of the image remain shadowed.

Girl wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt gives an interview standing outside under a canopy. The segment is framed by a yellow border and turquoise-and-yellow text that says, "Dressing Up!!!"

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Landscape image of an Amish farm. Caption. So the Amish can hardly afford to farm here anymore.

Instagram post with closeup of a bottle of the Chanel cologne, Pour Monsieur. Instagram column with caption and comments are to the right.

Still image from: The Automat -- Horn & Hardart Documentary

Black and white photo of a girl wearing a flannel jacket, hat, and gloves, leaning against a wood railing. Caption. Got to let our children take their chances here.

2 men stand outside of a New York City building, 1 is sitting next to a dog on a stoop, the other looks down at a piece of paper. Text below reads, "And this year, I'm up to 421 dollars."

Twilight shot looking down a city street with multi-story buildings. Text below reads, "The United Nations ranks Finland #1 in the world in education". Caption. For Finland being on the top in all these rankings.

Senior woman smiles at a woman wearing a plaid shirt and walking down the hall.

People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.

Students and their teacher from the magic school bus standing in front of a landfill piled high with trash. Caption: (Wanda) How am I ever going to find my soldier in that mess?

Students from the magic school bus encased in raindrops. Caption: Water always falls out of the clouds, eventually.

Girl dressed in old-fashioned work clothes sits among lush green ferns, palm trees, oak trees, and other plants.

Girl dressed in old-fashioned work clothes appears to be sitting down or getting up, surrounded by lush green ferns, palm trees, oak trees, and other plants.

Animal puppets in front of the backdrop of a jungle. Spanish captions.

One puppet tells a story while a group listens to him. Spanish captions.

Still image from: The Power of Your Story: Using History and Creativity to Help Communities

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Still image from: This Is How the Night Sounds: Radio Company of the Night (Spanish)

Still image from: This Is How the River Sounds: La Macarena Urban Center (Spanish)

Woman with shoulder length straight brown hair speaking. Caption. But this will happen only if citizens vote.

A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.

2 Inuk children lay on a sled pulled through the snow by 4 Huskies. 2 children follow behind.

Illustrated man reading large poster. Caption: The printing press meant books could be mass-produced.

Soldiers wearing 19th century British military dress uniforms. They are marching in twos with rifles down a grassy hill.

Young girl walking out of a door. Caption: I'm taking it to the experts-- the post office.

Man holding a wooden bucket. Caption: helped spread a terrible plague

Shawn the Train, a red locomotive, smiles on a track surrounded by green hills. Caption. Let's learn the traffic signs.

Illustration of a lemon tree filled with ripe lemons under a lemon-colored moon. A girl wearing a white nightgown dances in front of the tree. Caption. Her tree glowed golden in the night.

Indigenous woman with braided pigtails wears a traditional red costume with glitter and a cape with long multicolored fringe as she dances.

Side view of an industrial kitchen counter with 4 women wearing white hair nets while they prepare to mix and bake something in silver mixing bowls and springform pans. 1 woman on the left side takes a paper from a woman on the right.

Team of lacrosse players in uniform form a circle on the side of a rainy neighborhood street at dusk. They hold their black and white lacrosse sticks up and together in the center, and some players wear Santa hats.

Sign that reads, "5 County Legislator. Twenty sixth district. 4 year term. Vote for any one," on the left. On the right, it reads, "6 Mayor. Vote for any one." Yellow text on screen reads, "Vote." Caption. Or who will lead our city or state.

Slide shows white text on a black background that reads, "What Are You?"

Police man with dress cap walking and looking backwards as he shines a flashlight towards a car window. Caption. And get them on the right track.

Person in a tan and yellow fireman's uniform buckles a red fireman's helmet over a full gas mask. Several firemen's uniforms hang in the background.

Still image from: Who Was Queen Elizabeth II?

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Semper Fido and Punxsutawney Phil

Crowd of Sudanese people wearing bright clothing and carrying full large white bags on their heads while they walk outside. Caption. Narrator. Separated from their families, many orphaned.

Illustration of 2 plateaus with 1 white and 1 red horizontal stripe topped with green trees above several adobe-style homes. Caption. And the importance of our culture.