[Nfb-krafters-korner] Fw: [Nfb-seniors] Experiencing the Solar Eclipse

[Annely Rose]

Here's some additional information for a Facebook location.  Happy eclipsing!

Annely

--- On Fri, 8/18/17, Robert Leslie Newman via NFB-Seniors <nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> From: Robert Leslie Newman via NFB-Seniors <nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfb-seniors] Experiencing the Solar Eclipse
> To: "0senior division listserv" <nebraska-senior-blind at nfbnet.org>, "NFB Senior Division list" <nfb-seniors at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Robert Leslie Newman" <robertleslienewman at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, August 18, 2017, 10:44 AM
> Here are some methods for getting in on the
> ECLIPES 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> (1) The Eclipse Soundscapes app for iOs
> devices is perhaps the most
> revolutionary, since this offers the
> user a chance to experience this event
> through vibrational touch on the screen
> as well as through sound.  A special
> app, available through iTunes, uses an
> interactive rumble map customized to
> the viewer's location.  The
> Soundscapes app will geolocate you and start the
> narration to align with the planetary
> movements as they occur from your
> local vantage point. The specialized
> imaging description techniques making
> this possible were developed by the
> National Center for Accessible Media
> (NCAM), a part of television station
> WGBH of Boston, Massachusetts. .  Other
> partners in the Eclipse Soundscapes
> project are the Smithsonian
> Astrophysical Observatory (H.E.C.) and
> the National Park Service.  Download
> the app from
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8.
> 
> I am not aware that this app is
> available for Android devices.
> 
>  
> 
> (2)  If you have a way to get to
> Facebook,  tune in Monday beginning
> 
> 12:00 PM EDT as the Harvard-Smithsonian
> Center for Astrophysics and solar
> astrophysicist Henry "Trae" Winter put
> on a special, pre-eclipse live event
> geared with the blind and visually
> impaired in mind.
> 
> Follow this project on Facebook at
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/EclipseSoundSAO/.
> 
>  
> 
> (3)  The ACB Radio Interactive
> Channel will be offering narration of the
> solar eclipse.  Go to http://www.acbradio.org/interactive.  The Audio
> Description Project, an initiative of
> the American Council of the Blind
> (ACB) along with the Mid-Tennessee
> Council of the Blind, the Tennessee
> School for the Blind, and the Tennessee
> Performing Arts Center, will host
> this audio description of the solar
> eclipse.
> 
> Between 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM EDT, Dr.
> Joel Snyder will host an event titled,
> "A Total Eclipse - Audio Described," on
> ACB Radio Interactive.
> 
>  
> 
> Happy listening.
> 
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