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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...
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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
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...
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a leader in our field. For many years, the TSBVI Short-Term Programs (STP) has excelled in teaching...
Creating and using digital graphs is a challenge for many students with visual impairments. Traditionally, students have received graphs in a tactile format;...
Students with visual impairments and blindness are successfully using technology in the classroom and it is exciting to see how technology has a positive...
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...
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...
When a student becomes frustrated expressing their ideas in writing in their primary learning medium and it has negative implications on learning and their...
This year, my student wanted to learn how to connect her Polaris to her Windows laptop with JAWS to use it as a braille display.
I downloaded the correct...
In the previous posts (see above) we’ve looked at a variety of braille displays. In this installment, we are going to take a look at the fifth generation of...
If you are a Refreshabraille 18 user, you may have, at some point or another, found that your device's braille display is all jumbled up! My students have...
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...
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 fun European folktale is one explanation of why a bunny brings eggs at Easter. A folktale is a legend or tale that has a moral or lesson and is typically...
NOTE: There are seven other articles in this series that may help you familiarize yourself with the Orbit and its capabilities:
Layout and Menu Structure of...
EquatIO is a math extension that makes math digital. Type, handwrite, dictate, or simply copy a printed math equation; EquatIO converts these math equations...
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 first evening of summer, the song “Here Comes the Sun” popped into my head, as I reflected over the school year and the progress one of my student’s has...
Tech savvy classroom teachers in the 21st Century are using Google Forms, Sheets and Flubaroo (add-on) to create, grade and tests, including weekly spelling...
As educators, our primary job when teaching screen reader skills to students is to teach the basic gestures (tablets), keyboard commands and/or braille display...
Over the years, WebAim has facilitated surveys about the preferences of screen reader users. The 7th survey, which was done in October 2017, received 1,792...
Traditionally, a braille student completes math equations using a manual Perkins Braille Writer. However, 21st Century classrooms are completing assignments...
When using a screen reader, it is quite typical that you will access websites and applications. On webpages and within apps, you will hear special coding and...
School year 2016-2017 was a pilot year for the MAP assessments at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind. As a school, we were looking for a way to provide...
As our classrooms become online classrooms, providing digital math in a braille format has been a critical issue. Math has traditionally been provided as hard...
Some students may use two Google accounts, one for personal email and another for school email. Here is how they can open two accounts and switch between the...
Sometimes it's hard to know how to get started with teaching JAWS. Students who are in elementary school benefit from beginning technology instruction at an...
Many students who attend Short-Term Programs at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired rely on the use of Perkins braillers and braille...
In this post, you will learn how students can access math materials digitally on a Windows computer using the NVDA screen reader. Your student will need the...
In this video, Brice demonstrates the basic commands used to navigate math equations on a Windows machine running NVDA. The same principles apply when using...
Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read books; students can create their own books or selet books created by others. Tar Heel Reader is a...
