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Holiday Gifts for Students with Visual Impairments
Image of wrapped present with text, "Holiday Gift Ideas"
'Tis the Season - are you looking for gift ideas?
Teaching Number Line Math Skills Part 3: Accessible App
Screenshot of Cosmic Numbers level 1: Astronaut Tommy is on #1 of the Number Line with text, "Cosmic Numbers App"
Cosmic Numbers is an accessible number line created to teach basic digital number lines skills for students who are visually impaired.
Accessibility Overview Workbook Series 1: Introduction
Hand holding an iPad with text, "VO Workbook: Intro"
Students and teachers: Learn about basic iOS accessibility features.

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Help this robotic mouse find his cheese!
Photo of Code and Go Activity Set with Robot mouse, tunnels, modified arrow cards, board, activity cards, etc.
Coding Concepts: Code and Go Robot
In the third and final installment in this series, we will look at apps and services for screen sharing.
Join.me, Skype 2, Google Hangout, Splashtop and screen leap logos and text, "From a Distance: Part three Screen Sharing Options"
From a Distance Part 3: Screen Sharing Options
Where does the national shortage of TVIs and schools merge brilliantly? The answer is quite simply, Career Day!
Poster text, "Teachers to Students with Visual Impairments give students the power to Braille," with hand over sim Braille
TVI Career Day: inspiring students to become TVIs
Experiences and suggestions for teaching keyboarding to Pre-K and early elementary BVI students in a group class (computer lab)setting.
Picture of a person's hands typing
Keyboarding for Young Children
WRAL news reports about a company that actively recruits people with disabilities.
Sean Mealin working at his computer in his SAS office, with text, "Recruiting employees with Disabilities".
SAS Recruits Employees with Disabilities
Learn more about Android's low vision features!
Image of home screen on an Android phone with text, "Android Phone Training Videos".
Android Phone Training Videos
UEB Online’s new Braille mathematics program introduces students to Braille mathematical symbols and expressions.
Logo for website UEB Online
UEB Math Online
Teach coding concepts using familiar stories. Learning to separate 'turn' and 'move forward' commands.
Imageof The Snowy Day book by Ezra Jack Keats, the Caldecott Medal, and text, "Coding Concepts #3: Snowy Day"
Coding Concepts #3: Snowy Day
The Refreshabraille 18 has a unique feature that allows users to flip the braille display, enabled with a quick shortcut.
Graphic of title text: Help! My Refreshabraille 18 is All Jumbled Up!
Help! My Refreshabraille 18 is All Jumbled Up!
It's alive! A behind-the-scenes look at how your favorite bookstore books get converted to accessible formats.
Text, "How Bookshare Books Come to Life"
How Bookshare Books Come to Life
Directions on how to download Bookshare books in Apple Books (iBooks).
Bookshare and Apple Books logos with text, "Bookshare, Apple Books"
Read Books from Bookshare in Apple Books
Building mental maps starts with room familiarization and then then the world!
Silhouette of head with puzzle pieces outside and inside the head and text, "Building Mental Maps".
Building mental maps: preschool to college
The status of the new Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems laws.
Image of electric car plugged into electricity with text, "New noise laws for electric cars."
Hybrid and Electric Cars Required to Make Noise
A digital accessible book for emerging/young readers!
Image: Cover of the book What Can Swim? Includes title and an image of a Golden Retriever swimming in the water.
What Can Swim?
In this 2nd of 3 posts on the topic, two iOS note-taking apps are compared, and the pros and cons of each are discussed.
Hand is shown using a stylus to handwrite on a tablet screen.
Note-taking Applications for the iPad: Part 2
In the first of three posts on this topic, the use of two note-taking applications for iOS devices is discussed.
Hand is shown using a stylus to handwrite on a tablet screen
Note-taking Applications for the iPad: Part 1

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