[Pibe-division] People Braille

Mon Jan 12 15:43:43 UTC 2009

I do this type of exercise with my students as well. I, like you, thought I was the only crazy person doing this. My variation is with hula hoops and I use it to teach slating skills in my 1 student classes. We are the stylus and we hop from hoop to hoop slating out the letters (Great for hyperactive kids). If the weather permits you can jump in chalk pieces then into the hoops or lay large sheets of paper over the hoops and punch(jump) through it. 
I have done this with my little students since I first started teaching. I had a developmentally delayed student who turned out to have MR. She was in Kindergarten and was falling further and further behind, I racked my brain trying to figure out how to get her to learn the letters. She loved it. I have also done this with adventurous older students but, teens don't like to hop, they very coolly step from dot to dot.

Kristen J. Sims
Teacher of Blind Students

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From: Carrie Gilmer <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
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Date: Sunday, January 11 2009 08:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille
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

NFBNationalCenter: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

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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
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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 Gilmer

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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

NFBNationalCenter: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

www.nfb.org/nopbc

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
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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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From:Carrie Gilmer

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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 SaturdaySchool 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

NFBNationalCenter: 410-659-9314

Home Phone: 763-784-8590

carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

www.nfb.org/nopbc

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