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MCA Denver + Touch & Create Studio Present: Dynamic Drawings by MCA Denver Teens
This interactive, virtual workshop series serves as an engaging creative outlet for teens who are blind and visually impaired or interested in accessible tactile art. Each session will focus on utilizing three-dimensional media to create artwork that explores spatial relationships, texture and form. As participants explore the materials and creative process, they will hear from...
Code Jumper 101B
Code Jumper 101B
Jump start interest in STEM activities through exploration of the Code Jumper kits. Join our presenters, Beth Dudycha and Robin Lowell, to examine advanced lesson plans, and ways Code Jumper prepares all students for the next steps in computer science.Participants will engage in 10 advanced lessons for Code Jumper Participants will learn how to add...
Free Mental Health Resources
Free Mental Health Resources
Tuesday Tea Hosted by CSB Topic: Free Mental Health Resources Date: 10/27/20 Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm PST Presenter: May Nguyen, MS, LEP, NCSP In this time of so much uncertainty, it is important as educators, parents, and caregivers to support the emotional well-being of our students and colleagues as well as our own mental health....
Parent Panel
Parent Panel
Parents will share with the group in an open and honest discussion of what has or hasn’t worked with virtual learning, how they are adapting to the new normal of distance learning, and experiences working through obstacles and added limitations to the instruction process. Read more: http://www.cadbs.org/train2020/
Daring Greatly
Daring Greatly
One thing is certain: job searching definitely makes us feel vulnerable. But in order to reach our goals, we must embrace and overcome our vulnerable feelings. In this session, we will discuss some of author Brenee Brown's thoughts about why vulnerability is a strength and how this concept applies to the job search process. https://brenebrown.com/books-audio/ Presenters:...
Eye Opening Symposium
Eye Opening Symposium
A free community event sponsored by The Blindness Coalition of Central Kentucky. The Eye Opening Symposium provides education to professionals and caregivers who interact with persons with vision loss. CEUs: https://www.acvrep.org/recert/ce-opportunities-details?id=2978
Lived Experiences with Problem Solving Webinars
Lived Experiences with Problem Solving Webinars
Nonprofits. Banks. Marketing agencies. Any company or organization hiring. The National Federation of the Blind invites employers, leaders in diversity and inclusion departments, human resources managers, and all hiring managers to attend one of our Meet the Blind Month webinars on lived experiences with problem solving. The National Federation of the Blind—Who We Are Problem-Solving...
Guiding Principles of Using the Barraga Visual Efficiency Program (1 of 2)
Guiding Principles of Using the Barraga Visual Efficiency Program (1 of 2)
The Barraga Visual Efficiency Program (BVEP) provides information and materials to evaluate needs and to design instruction to maximize use of available vision to address the needs of students with low vision who have ocular impairments and who have achieved cognitive developmental skills at or beyond the 3-year-old level. Attend this two part webinar to...
Halloween Audiojack Group Story Session
Halloween Audiojack Group Story Session
We are doing a live Audiojack session with our friends at VIDI Space to premiere the new Halloween Audiojack. This session is free and open to all. You can connect with video or audio only. You do not have to participate and can listen along and just enjoy the show. We will hear the new...
Managing Diabetes with Vision Loss Forum
Managing Diabetes with Vision Loss Forum
Individuals who are diabetic and also have low vision or are blind face a variety of daily challenges. From eating the right types of food to testing blood sugar, there are often many considerations that need to be addressed to help them maintain independence. and remain healthy. Let’s discuss the techniques and strategies that help...
Audio Description: If Your Eyes Could Speak Webinar
Audio Description: If Your Eyes Could Speak Webinar
Description: Audio description provides a verbal version of the visual. Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative, describers convey the visual image that is not fully accessible to a significant segment of the population and not fully realized by the rest of us--the rest of us, sighted folks who see but who may not...
Google Docs with JAWS
Google Docs with JAWS
Tuesday Tea Hosted by CSB Topic: Google Docs with JAWS Date: 11/3/20 Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm PST Presenters: Maximo Avendano & Scott Jaffray The basics of using Google Docs with a screen-reader and braille display will be demonstrated. Resources for independent practice will be distributed and discussion will focus on tips, tricks, and other related...
Southwest Orientation & Mobility Conference 2020 (Online Only)
Mark your calendars... SWOMA 2020 is going virtual this year! This November we will be Zooming into the Future ...and we can’t wait for you to join us!! Although we are moving our face-to-face conference to an entirely online format this year, you can still expect timely and informative keynotes and breakout sessions as well as...
Disability Virtual Career Fair
Disability Virtual Career Fair
Are you a person with a disability looking for a career opportunity or internship? This Virtual Career Fair is FREE for career seekers with disabilities to attend. Experienced professionals, recent college graduates and college students with disabilities meet online with employers across the nation to discuss competitive career opportunities! Candidates are invited to interact with...
What We Mean by Learning Through Play
What We Mean by Learning Through Play
The aim of The LEGO Foundation is to redefine play and re-imagine learning, but what does this mean exactly? What is Learning through Play, and why is play so special? What holistic skills do children develop when they play? This hands-on workshop will allow participants to reflect upon and discuss “what is play?”
JAWS with Google Classroom
JAWS with Google Classroom
Are you new to Google Classroom? Do you want to learn more about using screen reader software to navigate and complete classwork within Google Classroom? Join this webinar to preview the Google Classroom interface, navigate using keyboard commands, and explore other various components using JAWS. Instructors Elizabeth Whitaker, Technical Writer at Vispero Primary Core or...
Tasty Treats for Gift Giving
Tasty Treats for Gift Giving
The holidays are fast approaching. Deborah DeBord will join us again to share her spectacular ideas and tips for creating non-perishable food gifts. Bring your questions and ideas to share with the group! Date: Wednesday, November 11 Time: 4:00 PM Central Time
Play Facilitation in Theory and Practice
Play Facilitation in Theory and Practice
Let’s investigate how to best facilitate using learning through play principles. In a mix of workshop and lecture, you will be introduced to the core Learning through Play pedagogical framework that The LEGO Foundation has developed together with leading experts within Learning through Play pedagogy.
NWABA Core Stability Workout
NWABA Core Stability Workout
Join Northwest Association for Blind Athletes in a fun and fully accessible core stability workout! Please contact us for the Zoom meeting information.
Transition Services to Help with Life After Graduation
Transition Services to Help with Life After Graduation
Do you feel your child will be prepared for life after high school? Has your child’s transition plan been affected by remote learning? Are you concerned that your child's transition services aren't meaningful? This presentation will focus on : • -Development and Implementation of a Transition Plan; • Age-Appropriate Transition Assessments; • What to Do...
NWABA Zumba Clinic
NWABA Zumba Clinic
Join Northwest Association for Blind Athletes in a fun and fully accessible Zumba clinic! Please contact us for the Zoom meeting information.
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Get the facts, straight from the dog’s mouth on a variety of topics about the guide dog lifestyle! Join hosts Jane Flower, Youth Outreach Specialist and Jake Koch, Community Outreach Specialist at Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) for this three part online series. This event is designed for those who are interested in exploring...
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Get the facts, straight from the dog’s mouth on a variety of topics about the guide dog lifestyle! Join hosts Jane Flower, Youth Outreach Specialist and Jake Koch, Community Outreach Specialist at Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) for this three part online series. This event is designed for those who are interested in exploring...
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Guide Dogs for the Blind: Path to a Guide Dog E-Series
Get the facts, straight from the dog’s mouth on a variety of topics about the guide dog lifestyle! Join hosts Jane Flower, Youth Outreach Specialist and Jake Koch, Community Outreach Specialist at Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) for this three part online series. This event is designed for those who are interested in exploring...
Virtual PE (Pre-K to Elementary)
Virtual PE (Pre-K to Elementary)
Join NWABA for a virtual PE session for pre-k and elementary students. This will be an hour of fitness and dribbling (soccer) skills and games using equipment you readily find around your house with some time to connect with peers. All instruction will be fully accessible to all learners.
IEP Seminar – NFB of Arizona
IEP Seminar – NFB of Arizona
The Arizona affiliate is hosting an IEP seminar for parents of blind children, education professionals, and students. This is Taking place over zoom and this is open to everyone nationally. We are inviting all those who are interested in finding out more about the education process for children in early intervention age through high school....
NWABA Pilates Clinic
NWABA Pilates Clinic
Join Northwest Association for Blind Athletes in a fun and fully accessible Pilates clinic! Please contact us for the Zoom meeting information.
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Let’s take a deeper dive into both phone and computer apps we are using. We will have longer demonstrations of apps from There's an App for that, and any other apps we find useful are fair game. While different apps may be brought by the facilitator, we invite attendees to come with their favorite apps...
Easy Chair Yoga
Easy Chair Yoga
All you need is a chair, some comfortable clothes, and no shoes and together we can enjoy a relaxing and stress-free hour in the comfort of our own homes. Hosted by Leslie Spoone, Certified Aerobic Instructor and Personal Trainer.
LEGO Foundation: Manipulation
LEGO Foundation: Manipulation
Learn how to encourage and facilitate the understanding of bricks and their manipulation. Watch, in a real school setting, children participating in two playful activities: Save the Turtles and Caterpillar into Butterfly.
NWABA Intermediate Full Body Workout Circuit
NWABA Intermediate Full Body Workout Circuit
Join Northwest Association for Blind Athletes in a fun and fully accessible intermediate level full body workout circuit! Please contact us for the Zoom meeting information.
LEGO Foundation: Orientation
LEGO Foundation: Orientation
Discover fun ways to introduce brick position and the importance of their orientation. View children as they learn and understand, through play, about vertical/horizontal in Find the Crazy Duck, and right-side-up positioning in Apple Trees.
HEALTH Check-Up
HEALTH Check-Up
Home, Emergency, Attitude, Lifestyle, Tools, Health - Giving you the resources to be prepared and ready in all situations! Each week Terry brings a new topic to share.
Open Mic Night
Open Mic Night
Come share your talent, music, poetry, stories, etc. with our fun and awesome community! Your performance material can be up to 10 minutes in length! Please keep performances family appropriate with no profanity! Reoccurring every Wednesday. For a full list of weekly calls, vist: https://acb.org/ACB-community-conference-calls
LEGO Foundation: Constellation
Understand the importance of introducing alternative methods to promote knowledge of the braille cell and stud arrangement. Watch children at play become physically engaged while they discover the constellation of dots in Body Braille Twister and Six-Car Parking Lot.
Tips and Tricks Around the House
Tips and Tricks Around the House
We’ve all come to vision loss in different ways and times in our lives. Here’s an opportunity to ask those, “How do you do this?” questions and share tried and true techniques with one another. Join Elizabeth for this open chat. Disclaimer: The purpose of this group is for peer support only. It is not...
Resistance Training 101
Resistance Training 101
It’s time for an upper body workout using resistance bands. Hand weights, Soup cans, or other household items can be substituted. These exercises can be done sitting or standing. Let’s all get moving with Leslie Spoone, Certified Aerobic Instructor and Personal Trainer. Reoccurring every Thursday.
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Let’s take a deeper dive into both phone and computer apps we are using. We will have longer demonstrations of apps from There's an App for that, and any other apps we find useful are fair game. While different apps may be brought by the facilitator, we invite attendees to come with their favorite apps...
Easy Chair Yoga
Easy Chair Yoga
All you need is a chair, some comfortable clothes, and no shoes and together we can enjoy a relaxing and stress-free hour in the comfort of our own homes. Hosted by Leslie Spoone, Certified Aerobic Instructor and Personal Trainer.
LEGO Foundation: Characters
LEGO Foundation: Characters
Identify creative approaches to introduce understanding of the unique differences between braille characters. See children as they learn to read letters and numbers in two activities: Musical Letters and The Bull Pen.
A Bill of Rights for All Children with Visual Impairment and their Families
A Bill of Rights for All Children with Visual Impairment and their Families
Tuesday Tea Hosted by CSB Topic: A Bill of Rights for All Children with Visual Impairment and their Families Presenter: Emily Coleman Join us with Emily Coleman, mother of a blind child, Superintendent at TSBVI, and one of the co-authors of the Bill of Rights for All Children with Visual Impairment and their Families in...
Sight Tech Global Conference
Vistas Center invites you! Sight Tech Global is the first global, virtual conference dedicated to fostering discussion among technology pioneers on how rapid advances in AI and related technologies will fundamentally alter the landscape of assistive technology and accessibility. Speakers Format will include one on one interviews, panels, demos with top technologists, researchers, founders, designers...
LEGO Foundation: Literacy
LEGO Foundation: Literacy
Discover fun ways to teach that the concept of correct braille brick arrangement produces meaningful words. Watch children identify letters, and read and write words in two literacy activities: Hidden Word and Words and Space.
LEGO Foundation: Numeracy
LEGO Foundation: Numeracy
Discover fun ways to teach that the concept of correct number braille brick arrangement can produce math calculations and geometry to solve problems. Watch children identify numbers and develop their ability to perform basic math in two numeracy activities: Battle and Perfect 10.
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Apps We Like and How to Use Them:
Let’s take a deeper dive into both phone and computer apps we are using. We will have longer demonstrations of apps from There's an App for that, and any other apps we find useful are fair game. While different apps may be brought by the facilitator, we invite attendees to come with their favorite apps...