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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. <br />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.<br /><br />Kristen J. Sims<br />Teacher of Blind Students<br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #5167c6 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> Carrie Gilmer <a href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com"><carrie.gilmer@gmail.com></a></div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> 'Professionals in Blindness Education Division List' <a href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org"><pibe-division@nfbnet.org></a></div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> </div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Date:</b> Sunday, January 11 2009 08:49 PM</div><div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille</div><smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><smarttagtype name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><style></style><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Great minds think alike?it is not the first time we have-smile<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks Sheila!<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Carrie Gilmer, President</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">National Organization of Parents of Blind Children</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A Division of the National Federation of the Blind</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NFB</span></font></placename><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></span></font></place><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: 410-659-9314</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Home Phone: 763-784-8590</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com">carrie.gilmer@gmail.com</a></span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.nfb.org/nopbc">www.nfb.org/nopbc</a></span></font><br /><br /></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><hr tabindex="-1" align="center" width="100%" size="2" /></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Sheila Amato<br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:38 PM<br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <personname w:st="on">Professionals in Blindness Education Division List</personname><br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille</span></font><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">That's part of the beauty of such a listserv... I learned something new today! </span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If you only do what you've always done... you only get what you've always got. </span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So, thanks for sharing your idea... it's "new" to me!</span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sheila</span></font><br /><br /></div><blockquote style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 5pt 0in 5pt 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">----- Original Message ----- <br /></span></font><br /></div><div style="font-color: black"><p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="carrie.gilmer@gmail.com" href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com">Carrie Gilmer</a> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">'Professionals in Blindness Education Division List'</a> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:27 PM<br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille<br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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!<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">Smile. <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Carrie Gilmer, President</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">National Organization of Parents of Blind Children</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A Division of the National Federation of the Blind</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NFB</span></font></placename><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></span></font></place><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: 410-659-9314</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Home Phone: 763-784-8590</span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com">carrie.gilmer@gmail.com</a></span></font><font color="#000080"><span style="COLOR: navy"><br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.nfb.org/nopbc">www.nfb.org/nopbc</a></span></font><br /><br /></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><hr tabindex="-1" align="center" width="100%" size="2" /></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Sheila Amato<br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:32 PM<br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <personname w:st="on">Professionals in Blindness Education Division List</personname><br /><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Pibe-division] People Braille</span></font><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Great game, Carrie - I use a variation on this when I do presentations or teach graduate students.</span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I use white paper plates, 2 chairs and six people.</span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </span></font><br /><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sheila</span></font><br /><br /></div><blockquote style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 5pt 0in 5pt 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">----- Original Message ----- <br /></span></font><br /></div><div style="font-color: black"><p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="carrie.gilmer@gmail.com" href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com">Carrie Gilmer</a> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a title="EMakowske@nfb.org" href="mailto:EMakowske@nfb.org">'Makowske, Elizabeth'</a> ; <a title="tops-2005@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:tops-2005@nfbnet.org">'Training & Organizing People to Serve 2005'</a> ; <a title="rryles@latech.edu" href="mailto:rryles@latech.edu">'Ruby Ryles'</a> ; <a title="fschroeder@sks.com" href="mailto:fschroeder@sks.com">'Fredric Schroeder'</a> ; <a title="pobc-presidents@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pobc-presidents@nfbnet.org">'Parents of Blind Children State Presidents List'</a> ; <a title="nabs-l@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nabs-l@nfbnet.org">'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'</a> ; <a title="blindkid@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:blindkid@nfbnet.org">'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)'</a> ; <a title="jsa-parents@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:jsa-parents@nfbnet.org">'NFB Junior Science Academy Support List'</a> ; <a title="pibe-division@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:pibe-division@nfbnet.org">'Professionals in Blindness Education Division List'</a> ; <a title="nopbc-board@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nopbc-board@nfbnet.org">'NOPBC Board of Directors'</a> ; <a title="gwunder@earthlink.net" href="mailto:gwunder@earthlink.net">'Gary Wunder'</a> <br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sent:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:58 PM<br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> [Pibe-division] People Braille<br /></span></font><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Greetings!<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I came up with this as a new way for my <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Saturday</placename> <placetype w:st="on">School</placetype></place> 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 <a href="http://www.braille.org/">www.braille.org</a>.<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">People Braille<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You will need: a minimum of six people (for each cell)<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A minimum of six frozen pizza cardboard circles (or cut out your own)<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Each person represents a dot. For a ?round? or game someone would be dot one always and someone dot two, etc.<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For the Braille novice or learner do the alphabet<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For those with grade II knowledge and depending on the size of the group take it up a notch to contractions<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.<br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Try it and tell me how it went! <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Happy Braille to you! <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Carrie Gilmer, President</span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">National Organization of Parents of Blind Children</span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A Division of the National Federation of the Blind</span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NFB</span></font></placename><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <placename w:st="on">National</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></span></font></place><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: 410-659-9314</span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Home Phone: 763-784-8590</span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="mailto:carrie.gilmer@gmail.com">carrie.gilmer@gmail.com</a></span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.nfb.org/nopbc">www.nfb.org/nopbc</a></span></font><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <br /></span></font><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="2" /></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">_______________________________________________<br />Pibe-division mailing list<br />Pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/pibe-division_nfbnet.org<br />To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Pibe-division:<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/pibe-division_nfbnet.org/brltrans%40verizon.net<br /></span></font><br /></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="2" /></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">_______________________________________________<br />Pibe-division mailing list<br />Pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/pibe-division_nfbnet.org<br />To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Pibe-division:<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/pibe-division_nfbnet.org/brltrans%40verizon.net<br /></span></font><br /></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br />Pibe-division mailing list<br />Pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/pibe-division_nfbnet.org<br />To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Pibe-division:<br />http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/pibe-division_nfbnet.org/ksims%40opsb.net<br /></blockquote>
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