From Jennie.Herreid at business.uconn.edu Mon Jul 12 16:05:07 2010 From: Jennie.Herreid at business.uconn.edu (Jennie Herreid) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:05:07 +0000 Subject: [Uabs] Friendly Reminder: Braille Questionnaire - Univ. of Connecticut Message-ID: <7221B7C92134764EBFF9736912799011D893@SBEXCH10STOR02.business.uconn.edu> Group, I understand that last week was a busy week for parents (and educators) of blind & visually impaired children with the national convention going on. Therefore, I am reposting my previous request to complete the university's short Braille Questionnaire: The following link is to a short academic survey designed to assess parent's attitudes towards a new technology that we hope may create a more engaging Braille reading experience for children. It also includes an accessible version for visually impaired respondents, which can be found within the cover letter. If you're a parent of a visually impaired child or have experience learning / reading Braille, please feel free to take it. You may also opt-in by providing your e-mail address for a chance to win a $25 iTunes's gift card. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AU2S3X345 Alternatively, if you have difficulty using the survey, please feel free to contact us Monday through Friday (9 - 5 pm EST) to take it over the phone. Thank you, Jennie, Justin, Corey, and Chris Justin Rattner Research Analyst Connecticut Center For Entrepreneurship And Innovation (CCEI) University of Connecticut 222 Pitkin Street East Hartford, CT 06108 Tel: 860-728-2141 Justin.Rattner at Business.Uconn.Edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nabs.president at gmail.com Wed Jul 14 04:25:04 2010 From: nabs.president at gmail.com (Arielle Silverman) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:25:04 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] NABS Bulletin Additions Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks to everyone who helped out with our NABS activities at convention! I will be sending out a bulletin early next week reporting on convention, and then will resume my first-Monday-of-the-month schedule in September. If you have events you'd like announced in the next bulletin, please send announcements to me by Sunday, July 18. Thanks! Arielle -- Arielle Silverman President, National Association of Blind Students Phone: 602-502-2255 Email: nabs.president at gmail.com Website: www.nabslink.org From nabs.president at gmail.com Tue Jul 20 01:49:18 2010 From: nabs.president at gmail.com (Arielle Silverman) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:49:18 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] NABS July Bulletin! Message-ID: National Association of Blind Students >From the Desk of the President July 19, 2010 In This Bulletin: 1. Convetnntioneport! 2. State Division Announcements 1. Convention Report! As usual, we had a busy, productive, and fun NFB national convention, this time in Dallas, Texas, on July 3-8. As always we heard many informative and energizing speeches during our general sessions and the banquet. If you weren't at convention, or even if you were, you'll be able to read the presidential report, banquet address, resolutions, and other convention highlights in the August-September issue of the Braille Monitor. Details should be in the next NABS bulletin. NABS had some exciting activities as well. On Saturday afternoon, the NABS board put on high school and college readiness discussions for youth, and on Saturday night, we had a student hospitality night at convention for the first time in many years. Several students dropped in to hang out with us, some of whom were first-time convention attendees, and we hope to continue the student hospitality social at future conventions. On Sunday evening, we held our annual business meeting where we learned about new developments in access to academic materials, including the popular Blackboard Learn platform, and heard from two enthusiastic NABS members about the contribution the NFB has made in their lives. At the end of the meeting, we held elections for two of our board positions, and Meghan Whalen and Darian Smith were elected to serve an additional two-year term on the board. Personally, I enjoyed meeting some of our new members, and I hope that you will continue to be active in NABS and your local NFB affiliate. If you just joined NABS at this last convention and want to stay connected, I'd encourage you to find the NABS chapter in your state, if there is one. There's a list of NABS state chapters, and contacts for states that don't have NABS chapters yet, at www.nabslink.org You can either fan National Association of Blind Students on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or keep reading the monthly bulletins to find out about upcoming student conference calls and our next in-person meeting at Washington Seminar. Finally, if you aren't on our email discussion list and would like to correspond with other NABS members, you can join by going to http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org State Division Announcements: >From New Mexico: We are selling mugs with pictures on them of different sceens of our state and they cost $10 per mug. Please contact me via email if people are interested in these mugs. I hope to eventually send out discriptions of each mug we have and are selling and those in a brochure we are using. Also we are selling T-shirts with the Whozit logo on the left brest and the text message acrynym for too good to be forgotten ?2G2B4G,? just above the whozit, and the Louis Braille coin on the back of the shirt. We are selling them for buy one get one half off. The price is $10 for one shirt and $15 for two. We are selling 2XL for $12. Sizes range from small to 2XL. If you or anyone has any questions, please email me at nmabs.president at gmail.com. Thank you, Tara From California: Please see attached flyer. -- Arielle Silverman President, National Association of Blind Students Phone: 602-502-2255 Email: nabs.president at gmail.com Website: www.nabslink.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are interested in purchasing tickets for the raffle, please send all personal checks, money orders, or Cashier's checks to: Tamika Williams, AABS President 6060 Southbend Drive North Mobile, Alabama 36619 Please make all checks and money orders payable to Tamika Williams, AABS President, and include AABS iPod Fund Raiser in the memo line of all checks and money orders. On a separate sheet, please include, your name, e-mail address, and phone number in print or Braille. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact, Brittney Urquhart, AABS Vice-President, at blu0001 at auburn.edu Thank you in advance, Tamika From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sat Jul 31 13:58:40 2010 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:58:40 -0700 Subject: [Uabs] The National Association of Blind Students Presents: Meet your nabs committees. Message-ID: Happy Summer Fellow Students! We hope that wherever your travels took / are taking you enable you to gain enjoyment and excitement. For all of you that were able to join us in Dallas, thank you for sharing in another great convention. For those who were there in spirit; thank you for doing just that and we are excited to get to see you in Orlando next year! But, enough about the past and the future; we?re here now in the present, and as you all know, there?s a lot of work and exciting things to get done! With that, your nabs board is getting ready for another great year working with and serving you. As you probably know by now, the national Association of Blind Students operates year-round via its board of directors; many of us co-chair committees that are vital to the success of the division. On Sunday, August 8 at 7 p.m. eastern time We will be holding a conference call that we would like to invite all of you, our fellow students, to attend. On this call, we will introduce the various committees we have, what these committees do, and the board members who chair them. It is at this call where we are looking for any of you who have a wit for websites, feel for fundraising, eye for editing and writing or a mind for membership building who might have that itch to join a committee. Maybe you have an idea for a committee? Bring that too! We would appreciate your attendance, encourage your sharing of suggestions and ideas, but more than that, welcome your participation in all of our committees! So, come and join us, work with us, let us get to know each other and how we can change what it means to be a blind student together! Information: What: Getting to know the Nabs Committees When: Sunday, August 8. 7 p.m. EST. How: Call-in at 712.775.7100 (pass code 257963) Or listen via www.nabslinkaudio.org Thank you and we look forward to getting to know and work with you all. With warm regards, The committees of the national association of blind students -- Darian Smith Skype: The_Blind_Truth Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/goldengateace ?We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.? - Teilhard de Chardin