Common Core/Curriculum

How to Create Accessible Digital Maps Using SAS Graphics Accelerator and Google Maps
Screenshot of NIU university map with the virtual cane focus on Holmes Student Center, Bearing 2 O'clock, distance 397 yards.
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Quickly create customized, accessible digital maps that students can use to build mental maps and answer map-related educational questions.
Concept Development: Drawing
Photo of Victor sitting in a car drawing a campus map using the Sensational BlackBoard tactile drawing tool.
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Why do students who are visually impaired need to be able to draw items for educational purposes?
CodeQuest: A Free APH App!
Cartoon astronaut character and text, "APH's CodeQuest - a coding concept app - is in the App Store!"
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Travel through space with this fully accessible exhilarating coding concept app!
Getting Started with Non-Visual Digital Maps
2 Screenshots of Elon Campus: One is a visual map (Google Maps) and & the other is a non-visual map made from Google Maps data.
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Why does a non-visual map look different than a visual map?
Braille Reading Activity: Pizza!
photo of Mountain Mike's Pizza Menu in braille in front of a Perkins Brailler and text, "Braille Reading Activity: Pizza!"
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Motivate your braille reader with menus, recipes or other highly preferred reading materials!
Adapted Books for Student with CVI: Fruits and Vegetables
Coverof the Vegetables book with pepper, zucchini, and carrots with the text “Vegetables” and red speaker icon.
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Check out these two books: Fruits and Vegetables
Creating CVI-Friendly Videos using PowerPoint
Black background with red bubbled words, "Creating CVI-Friendly Videos"
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Quick and easy method to create CVI-friendly videos using PowerPoint and two free web applications.
How to Scale Up Students' Digital Literacy Skills
Screenshot of video: "How to Scale up Students' Digital Literacy Skills, Ting Siu, TVI/COMS, Ph.d" and headshot of Dr. Ting.
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When and how should we introduce young students with visual impairments to technology?
ABC's of iOS: A VoiceOver Manual for Toddlers and Beyond!
Cover page of ABC's of iOS: A VoiceOver Manual for Toddlers and Beyond! a collaboration between Diane Brauner & CNIB Foundation.
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This manual will help you introduce iOS technology and VoiceOver to 3 to 8 year old students!
Teaching a Totally Blind Braille Learner Virtually: What worked and what didn’t
Image of a computer monitor displaying Uabacus app and text, "Teaching a Blind Braille Learner Remotely"
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Practical and fun ways to teach braille, abacus, tech, and more to a 3rd grade student remotely!

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