[NOBE-L] National Science Foundation Podcast Project Focused on STEM and BVI Students

[Angela Wolf]

Hello, All:
 If you or someone you know teaches upper elementary students, please
check out this opportunity.  The project has goals of using podcasts
in inclusive ways to deliver content to blind and low vision students,
but also to provide access to role models in the field of science.
Dear TEACHER,


STEM Storytelling through Podcasts for Sighted, Blind, and Visually
Impaired Students (or SSP for short) is an NSF-funded project
involving the use and creation of podcasts in the classroom. We are
attempting to broaden participation for blind and visually impaired
and sighted upper-elementary students through engaging with podcast
technology to tell stories about scientists, including those who are
Blind and Visually Impaired. We would like to invite you to consider
being a part of our teacher advisory board.


About the Teacher Advisory Board

For this project, we want to make sure to include a range of teachers’
voices, expertise, and experience. We will use our teacher advisors’
feedback in designing and modifying our podcasts and resources
developed as part of this project. We are looking to recruit 25
teachers from classrooms with sighted students and those with blind
and visually impaired students, who teach STEM courses in grades 3-5,
and are working in a variety of schools and conditions across the
country.


Our teacher advisors will help review our material throughout the
year, providing feedback via short questionnaires and focus group
discussions with other teachers. They will also help by testing some
of our resources in their classrooms with their kids. We expect that
involvement with the advisory board will take roughly 10 hours over
this academic year. Duties will involve:


Reviewing materials 2-3 times throughout the year

1-hour focus group discussions at 2 times throughout the year

Completing 2-3 short questionnaires throughout the year that take
roughly 15 minutes each

As appropriate and reasonable, testing resources in your teaching


Teachers who are selected as a teacher advisor for this project will
receive a $500 stipend for the year. They will also receive
recognition as a teacher in a national project, as well as early
access to podcast resources and professional learning opportunities.
There will be an opportunity for teachers to continue in years 2 and 3
of the project, as well.


If you are interested, please go to the teacher interest form to apply!

-- 
Angela Wolf, MPA, CTSVI
Director of Curriculum
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
512-206-9178
wolfa at tsbvi.edu


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