Today we have two great braille resources for you. Our Weekly Dose of Braille and a Braille Bits Podcast. Enjoy!
Braille Bits: Lesson 8 Podcast
Braille Bits is a correspondence-guided class conducted by the Library, providing braille lessons online or by mail. This podcast highlights each Braille Bits lesson and features an interview with a special guest to discuss all things braille. Check out the Braille Bits page for more information.
Join us for a great conversation with Jerry Cole, Braille Transcriber for the Library, and a review Braille Bits Lesson 8 which focuses on strong wordsigns (child, shall, this, which, out, still) and strong groupsigns (ch, sh, th, wh, ou, st).
Weekly Dose of Braille
When it comes to shortform words, it can overwhelmingly be a lot of information and knowing how to apply the rules, can sometimes be too much, especially when trying to put rules into a neat and tidy box. However, these rules are important, especially knowing how and when they should be used, it almost can make my head spin. No problem, reach to the Weekly Dose and check it out if you are not sure how a rule works! Just as a reminder, go to the link provided below and explore a topic to find your answer!
New Weekly Dose: Shortforms – Rules not on the Shortforms List
For more information and to see past Weekly Dose of Braille topics check out our Weekly Dose of Braille Page.
The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. This insightful Weekly Dose of Braille brings your attention to the common use of Unified English Braille and how to implement these rules and formats used by braille transcribers and proofreaders. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question, but are neatly put into a Weekly Dose of Braille for your easy access. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.
