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The National Homework Hotline for Blind and Visually Impaired students (NHH-BVI) was created in response to the school closures due to COVID. (See Homework...
Learning and using a dedicated braille notetaker can be very challenging, especially during times when contact with a TVI or AT Specialist is inconsistent. ...
Finding Solutions
Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
Assistive Tech for The Win!
Up to this point, the content we’ve put out on this blog page has mostly about cooking. However, our wonderful meal kit delivery...
Get #AllInTogether for Summer Reading
Are you looking for fun and EASY ways to keep your child or students learning this summer?
Bookshare’s #AllInTogether ...
We all have been thrown into the deep end with regard to virtual/distance learning! Some of us had prepared our students and some didn’t. Some of us are tech...
This month, HIMS released the BrailleSense Polaris firmware upgrade. Since my students use Google Drive to access and share files, they were highly...
As each state embarks on providing remote instruction to students, many companies are providing free training through video conferencing and webinars, as well...
Are you struggling how to use a HumanWare product? Looking for step-by-step guides and videos? HumanWare just released the free HumanWare Buddy App to assist...
Students with visual impairments and blindness are successfully using technology in the classroom and it is exciting to see how technology has a positive...
I was very impressed with APH’s two new refreshable braille displays that will be released this year. The Chameleon 20 and Mantis Q40 will be available on...
As educators, we often teach basic reading skills, such as identifying letters, words, building vocabulary and spelling. However, when was the last time you...
The Active Braille is a forty-cell refreshable braille display with cursor router keys, a Perkin’s style keyboard, two triple action keys, and two spacebar...
Press release submitted to Paths to Technology by Orbit Research.
SONIPAT, INDIA – October 15, 2019 –
Orbit Research announced the launch of the Orbit...
How do you start teaching digital literacy skills to young students who are learning technology? Memorizing a list of commands is B-O-R-I-N-G!
How about...
AppleVis continues to be a wonderful resource for learning about Apple products and the accessibility of these products. Scott Davert reports about using a...
NOTE: Please see other posts in this series including:
So Many Braille Displays Part One (focusing on the Brailliant BI 40 and BI 80 models)
So Many Braille...
This month, I attended a training presented by Jonathon Taylor, Tech Support Specialist from HIMS Inc. about braille devices. The TVIs at the organization...
Google Classroom, one of the many google suite products available to users of the Polaris, is an app that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store onto any...
Updated post: Documents added 8/3/19
As a TVI, one of my primary roles is to teach students with visual impairment self- advocacy skills. My students need to...
BrailleSense Polaris is a braille notetaker with a 32 cell refreshable braille display, Perkin'sstyle keyboard with a backspace and enter key, and a small LCD...
Calling all BrailleNote users! Do you have questions or want to learn more about BrailleNotes? This BrailleNote family user group has recently been formed!...
EdTech can be transformative for all sorts of students, of all different ages and abilities. As a support tool it can be particularly effective in helping...
Last week, HIMS released a firmware update for the BrailleSense Polaris. One of the major updates allows an individual to copy a file from the internal storage...
I’ve got a neat new tip to share with y’all today, and it’s all because my student was confident enough to speak up and correct me after I made an incorrect...
Once my student began having difficulty uploading documents from the Downloads folder located in the flash disk of the Polaris to Google Drive, she spent a...
NOTE: Please see other posts in this series including
So Many Braille Displays Part One (focusing on the Brailliant BI 40 and BI 80 models)
So Many Braille...
I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2019 DC/MD annual AER conference. My presentation focused on common issues that TVIs and service providers faced when...
Just last month, I was weighing whether or not to purchase a BrailleNote Touch or a BrailleSense Polaris, two competing braille notetakers that both have...
Setting the scene
In my work with the Tennessee School for the Blind, I work with many of our classroom teachers regularly to figure out new and improved...
NOTE: Prior to reading this article, you may wish to review previous articles in this series:
Layout and Menu Structure of the Orbit Reader 20
File Structure...
In the first article in this series, we introduced the layout of the Orbit Reader and proceeded into the basic menu structure. In the second article, we...
One of the reasons my students use the Braille Sense Polaris is because the braille notetaker uses Google applications to directly access Google Chrome, Docs,...
The BraillseSense Polaris has a terminal clipboard to cut and paste text from a document saved to the internal storage system of the Polaris to another device...
Students are becoming tech savvy at early ages - including students who are emerging braille readers. These young students, with their small fingers and hands...
Several users have mentioned new issues with the Braille Note Touch and Google Classroom. One issue is that the focus jumps back to the top. Are you having any...
Technology for the blind and visually impaired has come so far! Just in the last couple of years we have seen amazing new devices and features come out. One of...
I was introduced to Braille in elementary school when we knew I had a visual impairment that was impacting my ability to read, but we didn’t have a diagnosis....
The BrailleSense Polaris is a 32 cell braille notetaker with many features, including a fully functional Word Processor that provides access to a variety of...
I love using my brailleNote Touch. I write on it, and I share documents with my teachers. I type on the keyboard to write what I want. the device is different...
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