American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
Future Reflections Winter 2020
Odds and Ends
MATHEMATICS
Your Tech Vision on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/yourtechvision
Dr. Denise Robinson of Your Tech Vision has created hundreds of videos that explain how blind students can do mathematics on the computer using the JAWS screen reader. Examples include how to make a curved line in a graph using Excel, how to do geometry on the computer, labeling items in a graph, and using the Desmos Graphing Calculator.
PODCASTS
BBC World Service—CrowdScience-Downloads
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d42rc/episodes/downloads
CrowdScience offers an inexhaustible variety of free, downloadable podcasts on scientific topics and their impact on our lives. Among the wealth of topics are "Are Humans Capable of Outwitting Asteroids, Volcanoes, or Other Causes of Mass Extinction?", "What Is Infinity?", "How Low-Carbon Can CrowdScience Go?", and "What Is Empathy?"
NEW BOOKS
New Books in UEB from Seedlings
Seedlings Braille Books for Children
http://www.seedlings.org/order.php
Contact: 800-777-8552
Seedlings has released six new titles in Unified English Braille (UEB), bringing the total to 540. The new titles are Magic Treehouse 8, Midnight on the Moon; Magic Treehouse 7, Sunset of the Sabertooth; The Velveteen Rabbit; Maniac Magee; First American Colonies; and Who Was King Tut?
TACTILE GRAPHICS
Tactile Graphic Image Library
American Printing House for the Blind
The Tactile Graphic Image Library (TGIL) provides free PDF files that can be printed on a Tyger printer to create tactile graphics. Categories include coloring pages, mathematics, science, maps, monuments, and flags.
Braille Hub USA
www.braillehubusa.com
Contact: Tashya Taylor, 785-393-2202
[email protected]
Braille Hub USA is a transcription service based in Topeka, Kansas. In addition to producing Braille and large-print materials, including Braille music and Nemeth and UEB mathematics, Braille Hub USA provides tactile graphics for students from kindergarten through college. Products range from O&M maps to math, art, and life sciences.
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