http://www.readtv.com/blog/ Read-TV's Blog en leah@readtv.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-04T16:59:21+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/rotary-the-rotarian-and-i-love-when-we-count/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/rotary-the-rotarian-and-i-love-when-we-count/#When:15:59:21Z The Rotarian, a magazine that is delivered to every Rotary member in Canada and the United States, featured the DVD, "I Love When We Count." Very exciting news indeed! The Rotarian, a magazine that is delivered to every Rotary member in Canada and the United States, featured the DVD, "I Love When We Count." Very exciting news indeed! Here's how your Rotary club can get involved: Numeracy is Literacy Get involved in the exciting Rotary literacy project, “I Love When We Count.” By providing educational content in a DVD format we can share literacy information with those that need it most, those with low-literacy. How You Can Be Involved Rotary Clubs organize initiatives where the DVD is given to families for free. The President of Rotary International 2007/2008, Wilfred J. Wilkinson, provides a message to parents as a DVD special feature. Families receive a gift of literacy and are reminded of your commitment and participation in literacy initiatives. We will pool all Rotary Zone 22 orders together to get the lowest possible bulk rate. We are aiming for a bulk rate of $3.50 per DVD. Math is Everywhere “I Love When We Count” emphasizes family numeracy learning as a part of a child’s everyday world. It will help parents integrate and highlight math activities in daily life. “I Love When We Count” is for families with children ages 0-6. Give the Gift of Literacy “I Love When We Count” is an affordable and deeply impactful literacy service project. Over 55,000 families have received “I Love When You Read” and “I Love When We Count” DVD’s for free. Let’s share these gifts of literacy even further. Please call or email me, Leah Tremain, for more information 2012-05-04T15:59:21+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/busy-times/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/busy-times/#When:02:25:26Z It's been a busy time for us. We've expanded what we do. Tremain Media creates products for the educational market and sold over 68,000 of our educational DVD's. We found that, over time, there was a demand for the quality of our products outside the rigors of education. People appreciated...First of all a big thank-you to Toronto Public Library for your purchase of I Love When We Talk. We're proud that the full catalog of our educational DVD's are available to borrow from TPL. It's been awhile since we posted - it's been a busy time for us. We've expanded what we do. Tremain Media creates products for the educational market and we sold over 68,000 of our educational DVD's. We found that, over time, there was a demand for the quality of our products outside the rigors of education. People appreciated the brains we brought to any endeavor - so we slowly started expanding. Tremain Media is now a full service media company. We still create intellectual property that we own and sell but we now create work for other organizations, firms and clients as well. We highlight some of our most recent work here - but to sum it up - we work in any medium from paper to light. Today we delivered 300 beautiful books to Laichwiltach Family Life Society, we got our hands on a publication that commissioned photographs taken by Tremain Media, and we continued our work in a First Nations language preservation project. We are truly honored to be working with the people and teams that have called on us to help them. It's exciting to be diving into new subject areas with those people that know those areas the best. Contact us about any project you have in mind and let's see what we can make happen. 2012-02-28T02:25:26+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/i-love-when-we-talk-featured-in-strongstart-bc-centres/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/i-love-when-we-talk-featured-in-strongstart-bc-centres/#When:21:02:12Z I Love When We Talk included as a resource at all StrongStart BC Centres through 2010 LegaciesNow... I Love When We Talk In All StrongStart BC Centres The early-literacy, early-language DVD, I Love When We Talk, was given to StrongStart BC Centres across the province as part of professional development workshops for StrongStart BC facilitators. 2010 Legacies Now provided the DVD's and partnered with British Columbia's Ministry of Education to provide the training. StrongStart Workshops a Success Workshops have just finished up and the Fiona Morrison, Director of Early Learning at 2010 Legacies Now, and StrongStart BC workshop leader, was pleased with the results. "There was a lot of idea sharing, networking and mentoring that took place at these workshops. The StrongStart facilitators really shone a light on how they engage, interact and educate families and children in their StrongStart BC Centres." Over 400 I Love When We Talk DVD's Distributed Fiona Morrison made sure that each StrongStart BC facilitator received a copy of the DVD, I Love When We Talk. "I'm a big fan of the I Love When... series. I Love When You Read and I Love When We Count are in most StrongStart Centres so I was quite pleased to include I Love When We Talk as part of the resource package for facilitators." Twelve regional sessions were held throughout British Columbia and over 400 I Love When We Talk DVD's were distributed. Fiona's Favourite Chapter StrongStart BC facilitators discussed how the educational DVD can be used in their StrongStart BC centres. Fiona also used the DVD to spark discussion. Fiona says, "my favourite chapter of I Love When We Talk is called: The Importance of your Home Language. I co-developed the iPals (Immigrant Parents As Literacy Supporters) program and know of how important it is for parents to speak their home language to their young children. "There is a mistaken assumption that parents should try to speak English as much as possible but that assumption has been proven wrong by research. The literacy skills a child learns when hearing and participating in their first language run deep. It also deepens their sense of self and their sense of their culture." The Importance of Your Home Language is a DVD extra feature in I Love When We Talk. Fiona shared the chapter as a tool to engage the facilitators in discussion and as a way to remind them to share this information and the DVD to their StrongStart BC families. Conversation Between Children and Caregivers is a Cornerstone of Literacy "Speech and language between children and their caregivers is a cornerstone of literacy. I appreciate that we have another tool that reinforces this for parents," Fiona concluded. 2010-11-29T21:02:12+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/winnipeg-public-library/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/winnipeg-public-library/#When:17:16:19Z The I Love When...series becomes a part of Winnipeg Library's Early Literacy Kits. We're proud to be a part of your literacy strategy. I Love When We Talk, I Love When You Read and I Love When We Count are now a part of Winnipeg Library's Early Childhood Literacy Kits! Thank-you Winnipeg Library - we're very proud to be a part of your literacy strategy. I Love When 2010-10-20T17:16:19+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/hamilton-wentworth-district-school-board-adopts-literacy-dvds/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/hamilton-wentworth-district-school-board-adopts-literacy-dvds/#When:17:37:36Z DVD's from the I Love When We... series are arriving at Parenting and Family Literacy Centres across Ontario. Most recently, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) included Tremain Media's literacy, numeracy and language DVD's in all six of their Parenting and Family Literacy Centres.DVD's from the I Love When We... series are arriving at Parenting and Family Literacy Centres across Ontario. Most recently, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) included Tremain Media's literacy, numeracy and language DVD's in all six of their Parenting and Family Literacy Centres. Parenting and Family Literacy Centres are school-based programs for parents and their children, aged birth to six years of age that operate during the school day. The parent/caregiver stays with the child at all times. These programs help to prepare children for school and encourage families to be part of their children’s learning. Program Facilitators work as partners with the Kindergarten teachers and local community programs, collaborating to create a welcoming learning environment that will help prepare children for school. Centres are free to attend and no pre-registration is required. Drop by any of Hamilton-Wentworth's six Parenting and Family Literacy Centres where you will be able to borrow: I Love When We Count, I Love When You Read, I Love When We Talk or Read-TV. Thank-you HWDSB! We are proud to be a part of your early-learning programs. 2010-08-11T17:37:36+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/bc-association-of-speech-language-pathologists-and-audiologists/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/bc-association-of-speech-language-pathologists-and-audiologists/#When:23:31:43Z Thank-you to the BC Association of Speech / Language Pathologists and Audiologists (BCASLPA). It was wonderful to have you on board as a sponsor for I Love When We TalkThank-you to the BC Association of Speech / Language Pathologists and Audiologists (BCASLPA). It was wonderful to have you on board as a sponsor for I Love When We Talk. Also, thank-you for featuring I Love When We Talk in your montly newsletter "Vibrations." BCASLPA is a non profit association which supports over 1000 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and supportive personnel in BC. I Love When 2010-08-10T23:31:43+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/grass-roots-press/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/grass-roots-press/#When:22:51:30Z Tremain Media is proud to have Grass Roots Press as a distributor for the I Love When We... series. Tremain Media is proud to have Grass Roots Press as a distributor for the I Love When We... literacy and numeracy series. Grass Roots Press has been publishing and distributing literacy materials to over 4000 individuals and organizations across North American since 1997. The company was founded on the belief that the best resources are those developed by literacy educators. A special thank-you to Dr. Pat Campbell and the Grass Roots Press team. You are a pleasure to work with. Thank-you for distributing over 400 copies of I Love When You Read, I Love When We Count and I Love When We Talk DVD's to libraries, schools and literacy initiatives across North America. Here is a quote from one of their many happy customers: “We love sharing I Love When You Read with our families during our Calgary Reads at Home program. It is accessible and communicates a clear and critical message.” Steacy Collyer Co-Executive Director Calgary Reads I Love When 2010-08-10T22:51:30+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/ministry-of-education-newsletter/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/ministry-of-education-newsletter/#When:17:08:22Z The newest DVD release, I Love When We Talk, is featured in Spring 2010, Ministry of Education, Early Learning Newsletter. I Love When We Talk, our newest DVD release, is reviewed in the Ministry of Education's, Early Learning Newsletter.pdf This newsletter goes out to the early learning professionals and facilitators in every school district in the province of British Columbia. Parents if you'd like to borrow I Love When We Talk you will find it in many Strong Start Centres in British Columbia. By late fall 2010 there will be a copy of I Love When We Talk in every district's Strong Start program courtesy of 2010 Legacies Now. 2010-06-30T17:08:22+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/spark-early-learning/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/spark-early-learning/#When:21:39:15Z The Sunshine Coast adopts I Love When We Count and I Love When We Talk as part of their SPARK program which focuses on the latest research on ways that parents can support their child's learning at home. I Love When We Count and I Love When We Talk will be shown to parents attending School District 46's SPARK program. "The early years of a child's life are critical for setting the stage for success in later life. Parents of children under five can attend a new SPARK! class every Fall, Winter and Spring until their child enters Kindergarten. Classes are FREE and focus on the latest research and ways that parents can support their child's learning at home." I Love When We Count and I Love When We Talk support the latest research in numeracy and literacy and help parents learn how they can best support their children. I Love When 2010-06-15T21:39:15+00:00 http://www.readtv.com/blog/british-columbia-library-special/ http://www.readtv.com/blog/british-columbia-library-special/#When:14:31:37Z For the month of April 2010, B.C. libraries that buy 1 of our literacy DVD's receive 10% off. Libraries that buy 2 or more will receive 20% off. Let's Celebrate To celebrate BC libraries, to celebrate the new release of I Love When We Talk and to celebrate spring (we like to celebrate!) we are offering British Columbia libraries a special on all of our literacy DVD's. April Special for BC Libraries For the month of April 2010, BC libraries that buy 1 of our literacy DVD's receive 10% off. Libraries that buy 2 or more will receive 20% off. B.C. libraries have been wonderful in their support of the DVD, I Love When You Read. You can find I Love When You Read in every library outlet in British Columbia. How to Order Phone 1-888-843-9428 or email sales@readtv.com to place your order or if you have any questions. Leah or Steven will take your order. We look forward to hearing from you! Don't Pay for 30 Days BC libraries don't have to pay ahead. We will send you your literacy DVD's with an invoice - which gives you 30 days to pay. Download the .pdf Download the BCLibraryAprilPromo.pdf Uncategorized 2010-04-12T14:31:37+00:00