[Pibe-division] People Braille

Mon Jan 12 01:48:52 UTC 2009

Great minds think alike-it is not the first time we have-smile

Thanks Sheila!

Carrie Gilmer, President

National Organization of Parents of Blind Children

A Division of the National Federation of the Blind

NFB National Center: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

www.nfb.org/nopbc

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From: pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Amato
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:38 PM
To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List
Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille

That's part of the beauty of such a listserv... I learned something new
today! 

If you only do what you've always done... you only get what you've always
got. 

So, thanks for sharing your idea... it's "new" to me!

Sheila

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From: Carrie <mailto:carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>  Gilmer 

To: 'Professionals <mailto:pibe-division at nfbnet.org>  in Blindness Education
Division List' 

Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:27 PM

Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille

Great variation Sheila-as usual not only are my ideas sometimes not as
ingenious as I first thought they are also more often not totally new!

Smile. 

Carrie Gilmer, President

National Organization of Parents of Blind Children

A Division of the National Federation of the Blind

NFB National Center: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

www.nfb.org/nopbc

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From: pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Amato
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:32 PM
To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List
Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille

Great game, Carrie - I use a variation on this when I do presentations or
teach graduate students.

I use white paper plates, 2 chairs and six people.

We create a cell by having dots 1 and 4 (2 people, each holding one plate)
stand up shoulder to shoulder. Dots 2 and 5 are seated on the chairs in
front of them, and dots 3 and 6 sit on the floor directly in front of the
folks on chairs. Thus, we have a top, middle, and bottom to our human cell. 

The 6 participants keep their plates on their lap. When a letter or
contraction is called out, the folks who have plates that correspond to dots
in that letter or contraction hold their plate up under their chin and face
the plate forward. 

This is also good for folks who have mobility disabilities. I've done this
with folks in wheelchairs who were dots 2 and 5, and thus, they were able to
participate as well. 

Sheila

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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:58 PM

Subject: [Pibe-division] People Braille

Greetings!

I came up with this as a new way for my Saturday School kids to have fun
with Braille. Not all of my ingenious ideas stick (c'mon!-smile)-hope this
one will. Try it with your kids, families and their friends at your seminars
or Saturday schools, at your teen nights and student meetings or chapter
meetings, with your students in school and to sighted classmates, post it on
www.braille.org.

People Braille

You will need: a minimum of six people (for each cell)

A minimum of six frozen pizza cardboard circles (or cut out your own)

Tape the circles with double sided carpet tape or good old duct tape to the
floor about 12 inches apart in the shape of a Braille cell

Each person represents a dot. For a "round" or game someone would be dot one
always and someone dot two, etc.

For the Braille novice or learner do the alphabet

For those with grade II knowledge and depending on the size of the group
take it up a notch to contractions

The leader would call out "letter A" and of course only dot one would get on
the cell, "letter B" and dots one and two and so on and so forth.

You could figure a way to keep it competitive and keep score for learners, a
penalty for not knowing your dot number needed to get on or off the cell for
example.

I believe this has potential to be a great, fun, active way to get learners
to correlate and remember dot numbers with each letter or contraction while
getting a sort of mental map, repetition that is not boring works wonders
for learning! It is also a great way for siblings and family and interested
others to learn. 

Try it and tell me how it went!  

Happy Braille to you! 

Carrie Gilmer, President

National Organization of Parents of Blind Children

A Division of the National Federation of the Blind

NFB National Center: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

www.nfb.org/nopbc

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