[Cabs-talk] Fwd: [nabs-l] Slate Contest

[JKTomasell at aol.com]

i like the idea of this contest.
Jaime Tomasello
 
 
In a message dated 2/23/2011 5:47:37 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
dsmithnfb at gmail.com writes:

hey  cabsters,
this sounds pretty neat. Take a look at.
A friend is  gaging  interest in a contest in her student division,
who would be in  for having  a contest in california  between  us
students?
Darian

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From: Karen Anderson <kea.anderson at gmail.com>
Date:  Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:13:29 -0600
Subject: [nabs-l] Slate Contest
To:  nabs-l at nfbnet.org

Hello NABSters,



James Konechne from  BISM has asked me to cerculate the following. Feel free
to contact either  him or me with any questions.



Karen  Anderson





Hi all,

My name is James Konechne. I'm  the Braille instructor at Blind Industries
and Services of Maryland's  comprehensive adult blindness structured
discovery

training  program.

As a large component of my Braille curriculum, I teach our  students how to
write with the slate and stylus. A strategy I recently  began utilizing to
monitor

my students' accuracy and speed with this  skill has been to create a 
monthly
contest within the student body. Not  only does this give me the information

I need to gage their progress,  it also encourages a healthy dose of
competition between the students. The  contest consists of two components: a
slate sprint

and an endurance  race. Each involves writing the alphabet repeatedly. For
the slate sprint,  the students write as fast as they can for 30 seconds. I
count

each  four letters as a word and take a word off for every error that is
made.  The endurance race is similar in scoring and speed, with the  
exception
of

the student being timed for five minutes of constant  writing.

My students were trash talking lately and came up with the  idea of having a
friendly little competition among all adults currently  learning how to 
write

with the slate. They are ready and willing to  take on any writer with the
guts to join in on the contest!! If you want to  get a piece of the action,
time

your students for both races and  send me your results via e-mail. Then, let
the trash talk begin!! Let's  have a little fun and promote Braille writing

at the same  time!



Official Rules:

Contest writing must be done using  a standard, 28-cell, four-line slate.

Standard, heavy weight Braille  paper must be used.

Only one alphabet can be written per  line.

The clock must be allowed to continue to run while the slate is  being moved
to fresh paper since this is an essential component of  writing.



A Timing Example and Scoring:

In the five  minute endurance race, if, for example, a student writes five
complete  alphabets, they will have written a total of 30 words. If they  
make

five errors, five words are subtracted bringing them down to a  total of 25
total correct words. This is then divided by five to come up  with a total 
of

five words per minute.



Call or e-mail  with any questions.

James K

cell  4109250707



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