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Looking to start off the New Year learning a few new tricks? Our three webinars this January are sure to get you engaged and on track for 2018! Though only current NBA members have full access to the archive of recorded webinars, we invite anyone to join us at no cost as they happen live. To attend one of the webinars, use the link within the descriptions below. Formats Friday – Tables Presenter: Cindi Laurent Friday, January 5, 2017 at 1:00p ET Description: This webinar will review the guidelines in Section 11. We will look at different methods and formats for…
Read MoreWe are wrapping up our inaugural year of webinars by offering our regular lineup of free, short-length trainings. As always, the following webinars are open to anyone with an internet connection, and are on a first come, first serve basis. No registration is required for our free trainings. Attendees can just simply tune in a few minutes prior to the start of the webinar using the information outlined below. If you’ve missed out on previous webinars, current NBA members can watch replays of all the free trainings we’ve done. To view the replays, sign in to our website and navigate…
Read MoreFor over 70 years, the National Braille Association has been guided by a volunteer Board of Directors. It is now time to nominate individuals to fill the upcoming board vacancies that will be available in the Fall of 2018. Those selected to serve in the officer and director positions listed below will be installed at NBA’s Professional Development Conference in October, in Detroit, Michigan. We encourage all members of NBA to become involved in this nominating process by submitting the names of individuals for director positions and by selecting current directors to serve in officer positions. NBA is seeking nominations for the…
Read MoreThe Fall 2017 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 53, No. 3) is now available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those who receive the braille, print, and disc editions of the Bulletin, you should be receiving those editions within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member, you still have access to the digital edition.…
Read MoreThis November, we have a great lineup of webinars that we are excited to share! We’ll have our regularly scheduled free, fifteen minute learning opportunities and also a lengthier training on Braille2000 available with a paid registration. As always, our Braille Bytes, Music Mondays, and Formats Friday webinars are free and open to anyone with an internet connection. Space is limited to the first 25 people who sign-in. We encourage you to sign-in just a few minutes prior to the start time (no registration is required). If you’re not able to join live, current NBA members can always watch the…
Read MoreOctober is going to be an exciting (and busy) one! During the last week of the month we’ll all be in Orlando, Florida for our annual Professional Development Conference. But, in those few weeks leading up to the conference, we’re going to be hosting three of our free, fifteen minute webinars! We’ll be continuing with the themed “Music Mondays” and “Formats Friday” webinars, and our third “Braille Bytes” which features a different topic each month. Please remember that these quick learning opportunities are open to anyone with an internet connection at no cost. Attendance is served on a “first arrived”…
Read MoreFollowing the positive feedback that we’ve been receiving from our members, NBA is continuing to expand our webinar offerings! We’ll continue to offer our monthly Braille Formats topic on the first Friday of each month, and a rotating topic once per month. But, now we’re adding to that lineup a monthly music braille webinar to assist those of you wanting to learn more about how to transcribe music. Starting with September, we’d like to introduce to you the efforts of our Music Braille Committee to bring yet another free educational opportunity that we’re calling “Music Mondays”. Plus, we’ve gotten great…
Read MoreJoin us on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 11:00am EST for our first extended-length webinar! As we’ve been doing short, free webinars throughout the year, we have also been planning opportunities to conduct webinars that allow the presenter a chance to delve deeper into a topic. Our first ever extended-length webinar will be led by Kyle DeJute, Chair of NBA’s Mathematics, Science and Computer Notation Braille Committee. It is titled Testing our Patience – Examples of Nemeth Code Within UEB Context in Standardized Tests. Kyle describes the material that she will cover in Testing Our Patience as: Through a series of…
Read MoreWe’ve just announced the next two free, 15-minute webinars that we’ll be presenting in upcoming weeks. At the end of July, we’ll be leading “Update to the Guidance for Transcription Using Nemeth Code within UEB Contexts. What Has Changed?” and at the beginning of August we’ll continue the discussion about Braille Formats with our monthly “Formats Friday“. Remember: these short webinars are free and open to anyone with an internet connection who would like to attend. However, current National Braille Association members can sign in to our website with their member account and view the archive of previous webinars. For those…
Read MoreThe Summer 2017 NBA Bulletin (Vol. 53, No. 2) is now available for current NBA Members to download right from the Member’s Section of our website. Once you’re logged in, navigate to the Member’s Section using the link at the very top of your screen. Both PDF and BRF files are available to download right now! For those who receive the braille, print, and disc editions of the Bulletin, you should be receiving those editions within coming weeks. Remember: even if you receive any hardcopy form of the Bulletin, as a current member, you still have access to the digital edition.…
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