Braille Bits

Braille Bits: Lesson 21

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:53:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 21 features special guest Sarah Willeford, Libary Director for the Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled. Lesson 21 focuses on the numeric indicator.

Braille Bits is a correspondence-guided class conducted by the Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, providing braille lessons online or by mail. This podcast corresponds with each Braille Bits lesson. It features each Braille Bits Lesson and an interview with a special guest to discuss all things braille. Check out the library’s blog for more information about Braille Bits.

Braille Bits: Lesson 20

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:12:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 20 features special guest Roger Erpelding. Lesson 20 focuses on Typeform Indicators.

Braille Bits Lesson 19

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:01:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 19 features special guest Kay Escobedo, a paraeducator in Iowa. Lesson 19 focuses on Grade 1 Indicators.

Braille Bits Lesson 18

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:33:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 18 features special guest Judy Dixon, Consumer Relations Officer for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 18 focuses on shortforms.

Braille Bits Lesson 17

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:40:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 17 features special guest Enrique Mejia, Orientation Center Communications Instructor for the Iowa Department for the Blind discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 17 focuses on final-letter groupsigns.

Braille Bits Lesson 16

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:12:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 16 features special guest Terri Wilcox, Vocational Rehabilitation Teacher for the Iowa Department for the Blind discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 16 focuses on more shortforms.

Braille Bits is a correspondence-guided class conducted by the Iowa Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, providing braille lessons online or by mail. This podcast corresponds with each Braille Bits lesson. It features each Braille Bits Lesson and an interview with a special guest to discuss all things braille. Check out the library’s blog for more information about Braille Bits.

Braille Bits Lesson 15

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:19:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 15 features special guest Leland Smith, Vocational Rehabilitation Teacher for the Iowa Department for the Blind discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 15 focuses on rules for initial-letter contractions.

Braille Bits Lesson 14

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:01:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 14 features special guest Helen Stevens, Education and Training Director for the Iowa Department for the Blind discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 14 focuses on Dot 5 Initial Letter Contractions.

Braille Bits: Lesson 13

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:51:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 13 features special guest Cody and Bettina Dolinsek discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 13 focuses on more shortforms.

Braille Bits: Lesson 12

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 18 May 2020 14:13:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 12 features special guest Chelsea Page, Vocational Rehabilitation Teacher, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 12 focuses on Lower Groupsigns (bb, cc, ff, gg, ea).

Braille Bits: Lesson 11

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 11 May 2020 17:42:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 11 features special guest Karen Keninger, Director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 11 focuses on rules; Compound Words, Lower-Sign and Lower Groupsign.

Braille Bits: Lesson 10

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:40:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 10 features special guest student Lauren Thompson discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 10 focuses on Lower Wordsigns (in, enough, be, his, was, were) and Lower Groupsigns (in, en, be, con, dis).

Braille Bits: Lesson 9

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:40:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 9 features special guests Nami Wallace, Orientation Center Instructor and Karley Prinds, Orientation Center Home Management Instructor for Iowa Department for the Blind discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 9 focuses on Strong Groupsigns (ar, ed, er, gh, ow, ing) and a summary of what has been earned so far in previous lessons.

Braille Bits: Lesson 8

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:20:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 8 features special guest Jerry Cole, Braille Transcriber for the Library, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 8 focuses on Strong Wordsigns (child, shall, this, which, out, still) and Strong Groupsigns (ch, sh, th, wh, ou, st).

Braille Bits: Lesson 7

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:52:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 7 features special guest Matt Nemmers, Activities Coordinator for the Education and Training Team at the Iowa Department for the Blind, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 7 focuses on contractions: and, for, of, the, with.

Braille Bits: Lesson 6

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:16:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 6 features special guest Kayla Bartholomew discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 6 focuses on punctuation (period or decimal, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon).

Braille Bits: Lesson 5

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 02:46:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 5 features special guest Beth Pieters, Literacy Consultant for Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 5 focuses on hyphens and alphabetic wordsigns.

Braille Bits: Lesson 4

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:08:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 4 features special guest Sandi Ryan, Commissioner, Iowa Department for the Blind, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 4 focuses on capitalization.

Braille Bits: Lesson 3

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:39:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 3 features special guest Karen Cunningham, Instructional Materials Center Librarian, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 3 focuses on the last six letters of the alphabet.

Braille Bits: Lesson 2

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:25:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 2 features special Emily Wharton, Director Iowa Department for the Blind, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 2 focuses on the second 10 letters of the alphabet.

Braille Bits: Lesson 1

Library - Iowa Department for the Blind — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:46:00 +0000

Braille Bits Lesson 1 features special Sarah Willeford, Library Director, Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, discussing the importance of braille. Lesson 1 focuses on the first 10 letters of the alphabet.