[nabs-l] Reading the Braille Monitor

Sun May 27 18:03:58 UTC 2012

Hi Elizabeth and everyone,

You are correct! Here is how to access the Monitor on the Web site and on
Newsline for the phone:

On the Web site:

1. Go to www.nfb.org
2. On the home page, click on the Publications link.
3. On the publications page, click on Braille Monitor.
4. Select the decade you want, for example 2000-Present to read the most
recent issues.
5. Once you have clicked on a decade, you will find headings for each year.
Select the heading with the year you want to read from, for example 2012.
6. Select the month you want from the links under the heading for each year.
7. Once you have selected the month, a new page will load which will look
like the cover of that issue of the Monitor. Under the cover text, you
should see a "Contents" heading. Note: In the 2012 issues, there will be a
link on the cover page which says "skip to contents." If you are reading the
Monitor on the Web site, you might want to click on that link so you can
skip all the information on the cover about the thumb drive version of the
Monitor and how to access it on an NLS player. Under the contents heading,
you will find links to all the articles, plus a Listen Now (MP3) link to
listen to the audio version of each article, as was recorded in the
cassette/thumb drive versions.

On Newsline (assuming you are using the phone to access Newsline:)

1. Of course, log into Newsline.
2. From the main menu, press option 7 for magazines.
3. When prompted by Newsline to select a category, select Blindness-Spesific
by pressing option 1.
4. Press 1 again for the Braille Monitor.
5. Select the issue you want to read. Note: Because of the way Newsline is
set up, each monthly issue of the magazine will be read as the issue for the
first of that month. For example, the May issue of the Monitor will be read
on Newsline as "The Braille Monitor for May 1, 2012."
6. Select the section you want to read. Most of the time, you want to press
11 for the Articles section. The About the Braille Monitor section is all
the information on the cover.
7. Read the articles using the standard Newsline commands (1 to go to the
previous article, 3 to go to the next article, etc.)

By the way, I personally am subscribed to the hardcopy Braille version of
the Monitor, but sometimes I'll look at it on the Web site or on Newsline if
I want to refer back to an article or if I want to read something in the
Monitor before my Braille issue comes. Josh, see my previous email for a
more detailed explanation of how to find the agenda on the Web site. Happy
reading!!

Hope this helps,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Elizabeth
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:53 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Reading the Braille Monitor

Hello Joshua  and All,

While subscribing to the Braille Monitor ensures that you receive it each
month, there are a few ways to read it that do not involve a subscription. 
In addition to the various subscription options, you can also read the
Braille Monitor online at the NFB website as well as through Newsline. If
you view it online through the NFB website, you can view older issues of the
Braille Monitor that go back as far as ten or twenty years. So if you are
currently not a subscriber of the Braille Monitor, and would like to read
through some of the most recent issues or articles, I would suggest finding
it online. Unless I am mistaken, I believe you can find issues of the
Braille Monitor listed under the publications section of the NFB website.

Hope this helps,
Elizabeth

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From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:43 AM
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] GPS Solutions

> Thanks, Arielle.
> #1. I don't get the Braille Monitor, so I can't listen to it, unliss I 
> subscribe to get it, which I will do, at convention.
> I'm getting the Braille version, this time.
> Also, #2. I went to the site, and read the schedule, but it didn't 
> give the information I was looking for, like the times for each 
> meeting, unless I was looking in the wrong place.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 5/26/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to be fair to Joshua, Dave Andrews usually does email out the 
>> agenda every year. So Joshua was correct when he said he was 
>> expecting to get an email with it. However, Dave usually doesn't send 
>> it out until the first week of June. As others have pointed out, you 
>> can get it before Dave sends it out by going to the NFB website. 
>> However, I didn't know that it was up yet, either, until Karen 
>> mentioned it this morning. I've been around the NFB a long time, and 
>> in fact used to be your president, and I listen to the presidential 
>> releases, but I didn't know exactly when the agenda goes up on the 
>> website. So let's not jump on one of our fellow listers or start 
>> talking about "inappropriate behavior" just because he made an honest
mistake.
>> Arielle
>>
>> On 5/26/12, Tina Thomas <tinadt at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> First of all, had you been listening to the monthly presidential 
>>> release and or reading your Braille Monitor you would have known to 
>>> check the NFB website for all convention activities. So instead of 
>>> making assumptions and accusations check your facts before writing 
>>> and sending a message that makes you look foolish. Now Josh I'm not 
>>> picking on you, but in recent years, I've notice that with this 
>>> younger generation of students we have become  a little softer and 
>>> more politically  correct as well as tolerant of behaviors that are 
>>> inappropriate and intolerable  because we're afraid to hurt 
>>> someone's feelings. Well let me just tell you when I started in the 
>>> student's division many moons ago as well as going to a NFB center 
>>> we got our feet put to the fire and at the time, we thought our 
>>> mentors were being mean and harsh but looking back on all of those 
>>> experiences now, I'm grateful that they cared enough to teach us  
>>> self respect, responsibility
>>> and accountability.  I think that NABS should provide   mentoring to
>>> those
>>> students who are new to the federation and NABS and since I brought 
>>> it up, I'm willing to spend time with a student who wants to learn 
>>> about our philosophy as well as what having well adjusted blindness 
>>> skills can do to further self concept and confidence. I think that 
>>> this is one area that NABS has been lacking in recent years, and as 
>>> an older student who is now a TVI, I think it would be in  NABS best 
>>> interest to seek out some of the older students and have us buddy up 
>>> with a young student and provide them with the knowledge that was 
>>> given to us by our mentors who were and are still federationists.
>>> Regards,
>>> Tina
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On Behalf Of Joshua Lester
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 7:17 AM
>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] GPS Solutions
>>>
>>> What?
>>> You got the agenda, before everyone else?
>>> Please send it to me, off list!
>>> Thanks, Joshua
>>>
>>> On 5/26/12, Jordyn Castor <jordyn2493 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey guys!
>>>> So you know how we were talking about the GPS app for the iPhone 
>>>> from Sendero being a possibility? Well, I looked at the Agenda for 
>>>> convention, and look!!! This is an item for one of the General 
>>>> sessions. :)
>>>>
>>>> "THE SEEINGEYE APP: GPS FOR THE BLIND ON THE iPHONE
>>>>
>>>> Mike May, Chief Executive Officer, Sendero Group; Davis, California"
>>>> I can't wait!! Our convention is so exciting this year!
>>>> Anyways, just wanted to let you know.
>>>> Jordyn
>>>>
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