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Teachers of students with visual impairments or blindness are responsible for teaching so many things. How do you prioritize what to teach when?
It used to be...
TVIs - our mission is to help our students learn math and to love learning math! What mainstream, approved digital math tools are you teaching your students?...
Zoom meetings have become the "new normal" for businesses and for classes. Scribe for Meetings is a new tool that enables the meeting host to upload PowerPoint...
The Math Melodies app is a FREE fully accessible math app created specifically for students who are blind or low vision. The app covers a wide range of math...
When reading, some students breeze over the words without truly understanding the meaning - missing many of the humorous lines that are weaved into the story....
Teachers of the Visually Impaired are jumping for joy! Why? Math Melodies is a fully accessible math app covering a wide range of math topics ranging from...
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...
What happens when Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are all mixed together? Find out in this whacky poem! These activities can be done on any device; the...
Teachers are buzzing about APH's new beginning braille letter app, BrailleBuzz! This is a sister app to the popular stand-alone BrailleBuzz toy. Both games...
While looking for public fall-themed educational activities, I came across Kids Listen, podcasts for kids. Kids Listen is unique in that all the content is...
Emerging readers should be flooded with interesting books and these books should be available in various formats! Preschoolers love to do the same activity...
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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
For remote instruction, my student with multiple disabilities and CVI receives materials via Google Classroom. Service providers post short videos of fine...
In recent times, there has been a huge increase in the use of video conferencing software. So many educators and other professionals have been required to...
Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program, ObjectiveEd has developed Braille AI Tutor – an innovative system to enable students to...
During COVID-19 school closures, Amazon has made their books and audio stories for children and students of all ages FREE - no subscription! Books can be...
At the time of the writing of this post, there are a lot of people at home from work and school. Because of this stability, people are looking for ways to...
As a college student studying data science, I have to have a basic understanding of different subjects and topics so that I can better understand the data I am...
Learning Management Systems for the BVI in the Age of Pandemic
With the new forced paradigm in this world of distance learning, our school, like almost every...
Since our state has moved to remote learning while all public schools are closed for a minimum of three weeks because of the Coronavirus, students have had to...
This is a perfect time for students with visual impairments to learn and master new tech skills; having strong tech skills will have a significant, lasting...
Zoom is a leader in accessible video and audio conferencing. With school closures, educators are turning to Zoom as a means to provide virtual instruction....
Students with visual impairments and blindness are successfully using technology in the classroom and it is exciting to see how technology has a positive...
All students need to learn to use commas and have opportunities to practice using commas. Quite often braille students who are pulled out for language arts,...
Book Creator is a simple tool that educators, family members, and students frequently use to create fun digital books. Book Creator's latest update included...
As educators, finding good children’s books is essential to developing literacy in students. The Epic! app allows educators to provide students access to...
My student has been learning to read high frequency words in braille and alphabetic word signs. She’s had the greatest success reading teacher created...
One of the most-used apps by far on my Android phone as a person with low vision is the Google Lens app. In the last 24 hours, I’ve used it seven times for...
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...
This month, I created a pumpkin themed book for my first grade dual media learner using the Book Creator App. Since she loves cats, I wrote a simple story...
Ask your student his/her "resolutions" for the new school year! This fun activity can be done with an individual student as an O&M or VI lesson or with the...
We are very pleased to be the chosen partner by the American Printing House for the Blind to distribute Code Jumper internationally outside of the US....
Update 9/4/2019
APH recently updated their APH Crossword web-browser game. There are several noteable updates, including:
Letters are larger - match the...
This is the second post in the screen reader for low vision series. The first post, Screen Reader for Low Vision Students? Includes common indicators that a...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
For a variety of reasons, students who have functional vision are often resistant to using a screen reader. Should these students be introduced to a screen...
Accessing the web is a critical component in today's classroom. WebAIM's goal is to help make the web more accessible to individuals with disabilities by...
Alt Text description of book on the post's featured image: "Microsoft Word document displaying the image of the book cover Frank and Beanswith an alt text pane...
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