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How to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Safe
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Tips on how to set your Zoom sessions to keep them private.
Learning Management Systems in the Age of Pandemic
Graduate in cap and gown with electronic devices he used to learn and graduate, phone, computer, etc.
A narrative of how our BVI school quickly chose a Learning Management System for immediate use in this new age of a pandemic.
Remote Learning Materials: Student with CVI and Multiple Disabilities
Photo of Egg Hunt book cover (two bright Easter eggs with background of green field and blue sky and text,"CVI: Visual Scanning"
Download these free digital books/PDFs designed specifically for students with CVI!
Interlining Braille: Remotely!
Braille document on an iPad with Apple Pen writing corresponding print & Good Notes app. Text, "Interlining Braille: Remotely"
Is your student completing assignment in braille during COVID-19 school closures?
CVI-Friendly Videos: Resources for Students with CVI
Screenshot of CVI-Friendly Chicka Chicka Boom Boom video with outlined A, B, C and palm tree.
Here are terrific, teacher-created videos for students with CVI!
Word Melodies: Emerging Reading and Writing App
Screenshot of Word Melodies Home screen with cartoon animals, musical notes and text, "Accessible Emerging Reader App"
Just released - an exciting, fully accessible app for students who are emerging or beginner readers!
Tips for Providing Remote Video Instruction for Students with CVI
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Tips for maximizing remote video instruction for students with CVI.
Preparing Middle School and High School Students with VIB for Remote Learning
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This TVI shares her experiences setting up and using remote learning tools with students who are visually impaired or blind.
Virtual Instruction: Zoom Video Conferencing Platform
Zoom logo with "Video Conferencing" and text, "Virtual Instruction"
Here is the Zoom information you have been looking for!
Tech Standards for Students with VIB: What's Happening
Cartoon image of two teachers standing behind a student who is using a computer; text: "Tech Standards"
How does your student/school/district's tech skills compare to others across the country?
Aeden's Journey on the iPad: Part 6 Dictation
Photo of Aeden dictating on his iPad, image of dictation symbol and text, "Dictation"
Introducing dictation to an emerging reader and writer.
Field Test an iOS App (TestFlight and CodeQuest apps)
Screenshot of TestFlight email invitation to field test Beta version of CodeQuest.
How (and why) do you provide feedback when field testing a Beta version of an iOS app?
Alphabetic Word Sign Book for Early Readers
photo of a fluffy white cat laying on the couch and text, "Braille Contractions"
Practice braille contractions while reading about Noelle the cat!
Moving Forward with Accessible Digital Math: Part 1
Cartoon student sitting at a desk looking at a bar chart on his computer.
What math-related tech skills should we be teaching now?
Phase III CVI - Summer
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This course will provide content related to students who have cortical visual impairment (CVI) and who are considered to be in Phase III CVI.

Dual Media or Multimedia?
Photo of girl sitting on stack of books reading & photo of computer, phone with ear buds. Text: "Dual Reader VS. multimedia
Which is the most appropriate term?
HELP! Math Feedback Needed!
Math manipulatives (counting discs and numbers) and text, "Join the Math Discussion"
TVIs, we need YOUR feedback about math skills/activities for K-3rd students.
Assistive Technology for Fluctuating Eyesight
Assistive Technology for Fluctuating Eyesight. www.veroniiiica.com
Assistive technology considerations for people who have fluctuating eyesight or changing vision.
Teaching the CodeQuest App to Students who are Visually Impaired
Screenshot of CodeQueest app, with a path through 3x5 maze and text, "Teaching CodeQuest"
Coding concept games are navigating through a maze; how can students with visual impairments access digital mazes?
Tech Skills for Preschoolers Part 1: Computer Literacy
Image of toddler boy leaning over a computer; with hand on a computer keyboard. Text: "Preschool: Computer Skills"
Their computer tech goals for preschoolers?!?
Ballyland CosmoBally App
Ballyland CosmoBally App logo: Ballylander with astronaut helmet in space.
Learn about planets with CosmoBally in this fun interactive space-themed story!
Teaching Number Line Math Skills Part 3: Accessible App
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Cosmic Numbers is an accessible number line created to teach basic digital number lines skills for students who are visually impaired.
Teaching Number Line Math Skills: Part 2
Logan's hands on a tactile number line with a braille math worksheet beside him.
Introducing addition and subtraction to a young braille student using a number line.
Teaching Number Line Math Skills: Part 1
First grade student with two hands counting out squares and moving a ladybug object to the desired number line 10-frame square.
Simple fun ways to adapt and teach basic number line concepts to a young braille student.
Digital Thanksgiving Book for Early Readers
Cover page of a digital book titled I am Thankful with an image of four book boxes lined up next to each other on a shelf.
This emerging reader is learning to read in three mediums: magnified print, braille and auditory.
The Equalizing Power of Assistive Technology versus the Reality
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In spite of vast technological innovation, a significant portion of the BVI populations’ technology use lags significantly behind the general population
Audio Memos App and WH Questions
Sign with Who, When Where, How, Why and What with text, "Recording O&M lessons"
Expanding your O&M lessons with this fun activity for non-traditional O&M students.
Data Collection Made Easy
Image is a bar graph with an arrow pointing up.
Quick and easy self-calculating data sheets
Google Meet and Screen Share
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The free and easy way to use Google Meet to Screen Share
Preparing a Low Vision Student to Use a Screen Reader
High school student wearing glasses typing with one hand while leaning close to view a computer screen.
This is part two of the Screen Reader for Low Vision Students series.
CAI and Self-Determination
Image of person walking with white cane superimposes over computer
A brief examination of research that explores the relationship between self-determination and computer aided instruction (CAI).
Benefits of Using a Braille Display with Emerging Readers
24 month old boy sitting at a child's table with fingers pressing keys on an APH 18 Refreshabraille.
Consider introducing your potential or emerging braille reader to a refreshable Braille Display!
Promoting Learning in Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers with CVI: Strategies from the CVI Companion Guide to the Developmental Guidelines
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This workshop focuses on recommended practices in early intervention and early childhood special education

Oct. 19, 2019

Promoting Independence: 19 Ways to Step Back
Two transition-aged students work as a staff member looks on.
Learning to step back and allow students to be as independent as possible is a crucial step in helping them to develop independence.
Screen Reader for Low Vision Students?
Ipad displaying Chapter 3 of A Very Wimpy Kid with two-fingers making the Read All VoiceOver gesture.
My student is low vision, why should he/she be introduced to a screen reader?
Bigger is Not Always Better: Understanding Magnification
Magnifying glass held over four lines with parts of four words and text, "Is Bigger Always Better?"
When is too much magnification detrimental? Is there an alternative?
Ten "Odd" Things I Do With Double Vision
Ten "odd" things I do with double vision. www.veroniiiica.com
Seeing two of everything can be overwhelming. Here are ten things that I do to help minimize the effects of my double vision, and why.
From a Distance Part 3: Screen Sharing Options
Join.me, Skype 2, Google Hangout, Splashtop and screen leap logos and text, "From a Distance: Part three Screen Sharing Options"
In the third and final installment in this series, we will look at apps and services for screen sharing.
Keyboarding for Young Children
Picture of a person's hands typing
Experiences and suggestions for teaching keyboarding to Pre-K and early elementary BVI students in a group class (computer lab)setting.
UEB Math Online
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UEB Online’s new Braille mathematics program introduces students to Braille mathematical symbols and expressions.
Adding Alt Text to an Image in Word for Office 365
computer screenshot of book cover image, Frank and Beans, in a Word document with alt text pane open
Need image descriptions to Bookshare books? Here's how!
Literacy for Students who are Deafblind Tutorial
Little boy and a story board

Hearing impacts our ability to communicate, connect with others, and respond to environmental cues.

Literacy for Students who are Deafblind
Little boy and a story board

Hearing impacts our ability to communicate, connect with others, and respond to environmental cues.

Accessing Content: The ECC Connection Tutorial
cupboard full of games

Explain the benefits of playing games with your students

Accessing Content: The ECC Connection
cupboard full of games

Explain the benefits of playing games with your students

Planning Transition for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
graduate from Perkins

The transition from special education to post school life presents significant challenges to students, their families and their educational teams.

Ten Things I Wish My TVI Taught Me About Transition
Ten things I wish my TVI taught me about transition. www.veroniiiica.com
Ten things that I wish my teacher of the visually impaired would have taught me about transitioning to a four-year college with low vision.
The What's the Complexity Framework: Designing a visually accessible school day for the child with CVI (Fall Session)
Little girl with CVI

Use the "What's the Complexity" Framework to design a visually accessible school day for for children with CVI.

Cortical Visual Impairment (Fall Session)
A young girl wearing glasses is pointing at a computer screen.

The course will include information pertaining to the causes of CVI and program planning/interventions for individuals with CVI.

Struggling Braille Readers Can Improve Their Tactile Skills with these 10 Tips
Image of a Braille Cell with text, "Struggling Braille Readers".
Try these approaches when teaching emerging braille students.

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