[stylist] Vejas, question about youth writing contest
vejas
brlsurfer at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 23:14:06 UTC 2012
I agree about maybe doing it just for elementary students and
also maybe for adults, to see how much knowledge they've
retained.
And if they like to write but just lost their vision and don't
know Braille well, then I suppose they could write a note and not
have to do it. That way they can still write it.
Vejas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:22:32 -0600
Subject: [stylist] Vejas, question about youth writing contest
Vejas and/or other youth on this list:
Gee dude! I'm hoping to see one of your story's come in to our
2012 writing
contest for youth. And recall, our youth contest requires both a
Braille
hard-copy (hand embossed, like with a Perkins or by slate, no use
of an
embosser), and as a word document attached to an email.
Our youth contest is all about promoting Braille literacy, and so
the
hard-copy requirement. We want to see the quality of Braille
that a person
can produce (meaning, we are encouraging quality of Braille
knowledge and
use). And here is a thought as I am writing this to you --- Tell
me the
strait of it --- it appears that once a young blind guy gets
proficient with
the code, in reading and writing Braille, and once the person
gets a
notetaker with a Braille display, they no longer are interested
in
hand-"brailing out a longish document? (In part, I'm asking
because we are
not getting many entries from who we think are "the more
experienced Braille
users." Most entries are coming from the elementary age group, in
general
from kids who are learning the Braille code. (Yeah, we see some
high school
kids who are just now learning Braille, or are saying they know
it.)
[We may need to open up a section of the youth contest to those
who wish to
submit electronic entries, just like the adults are required to
do (no
hard-copy print is accepted). After all, we do want to encourage
our blind
youth to write!]
Robert Leslie Newman
President, Omaha Chapter NFB
President, NFB Writers' Division
Division Website
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
Chair, Newsletter Publication committee
Personal Website-
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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