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CTEBVICTEBVI JOURNALJOURNAL WINTER 2012-13 Volume LIV, No. 3 • President’s Message Scholarships, Conference, JOURNAL goes virtual, and more . pg. 4 • Ann Kelt Lifetime Achievement Award . pg. 9 • 2013 Conference News . pg. 6 • Membership Renewal . pg. 8 • Looking for new JOURNAL Editor . pg. 11 • UEB News . pg. 12 And LOTS of great Specialists’ Articles . starting on pg. 14 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired Message from the Editor THE CTEBVI JOURNAL Conference time is just around the corner. Once Editor again, if you are able to volunteer your time to be Marcy Ponzio on a committee or monitor a workshop, please contact the respective committee chair (contact Layout Editor information online). Kevin McCarthy UEB is the hot topic right now. You can read all Print Proofreader about in the BANA press release and Sue Reilly’s Cath Tendler-Valencia article found on pages 12-13. Braille Transcription IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Be sure to read Contra Costa Braille Transcribers the President’s message regarding the JOURNAL going virtual only. You can read all about the whys for this decision on pages 4 and 8. Embossing Transcribing Mariners And, last but not least, Braille Challenge is on its way. Teachers and students, please visit the The CTEBVI JOURNAL is published three times a year by website for regionals in your area, and to register the California Transcribers and Educators for the Blind and to participate in this great event. You can also Visually Impaired, Inc., 741 North Vermont Avenue, Los get contest descriptions and download practice Angeles, California 90029. ©2012 by California Transcribers contests. www.braillechallenge.org Enjoy and and Educators for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc. except have fun!! where noted. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced without the consent of the publishers. Safe and Happy Holidays to you all. See you at Conference. Editorial office for the CTEBVI JOURNAL Marcy Ponzio and all other CTEBVI publications is: Marcy Ponzio, CTEBVI Publications Braille Publishing Braille Institute of America 741 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90029-3594 Email: [email protected] Phone: (323) 666-2211 (For MESSAGES ONLY and recorded information about 2013 CTEBVI Conference) Deadlines for submission of articles: Spring Issue: April 18, 2013 Fall Issue: August 8, 2013 Winter Issue: November 9, 2013 PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER CTEBVI JOURNAL WINTER 2012-13 Volume LIV, No. 3 What’s Inside: President’s Message ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Gifts and Tributes & Contribution Form .......................................................................................................... 5 2013 Conference News Silent Auction .................................................................................................................................... 6 AFB Teen Employment Workshop ..................................................................................................... 7 CTEBVI Membership ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Announcements ............................................................................................................................................. 9 CTEBVI JOURNAL Editor .............................................................................................................................. 11 Special Articles: BANA Press Release – UEB ......................................................................................................................... 12 BANA Update – Sue Reilly, CTEBVI Representative to BANA ...................................................................... 13 Our Specialists Say: Computer-Generated Tactile Graphics – Jim Barker Caps and Joins ................................................................................................................................ 14 Braille Mathematics – Mary Denault Fill in the Blank--Punctuation Indicator or Not??? ............................................................................. 16 Textbook Formats – Robert Roldan Transcribers Notes .......................................................................................................................... 20 Infant/Preschool – Beth Moore and Sue Strafci Focusing on Parent to Parent Connections ...................................................................................... 25 Business Column – Bob Walling Braille = What!?! ............................................................................................................................ 26 Music in Education – Richard Taesch Teachers, Transcribers, & Music Readers’ Column ......................................................................... 27 CTEBVI Executive Board and Board of Directors ................................................................................................ 30 CTEBVI Committee Chairs .................................................................................................................................. 31 President’s Message The CTEBVI Board of Directors met in the fall at the Burlingame Airport Marriott, the site of our March 2013 conference. One decision we made was to increase the amount of money awardable next year from the Katie Sibert Memorial Scholarship fund. Because we received a large bequest in 2012 and because we know many school districts do not have funds to send transcribers and educators to conference, we want more of our money available for those wanting some financial help. The Katie Sibert form is available on our website, http://www.ctebvi.org/scholarships.htm and needs to be returned to the committee chair by January 31, 2013. Both the Katie Sibert fund and the Donna Coffee Youth Scholarship fund have been opened up to members outside California. In keeping with our mission to be inclusive of all our members, many of whom live in other states, even outside the country, we felt that the stipulation that the funds be open only to Californians was outdated, obsolete, and needed to be removed. Therefore, we did! Speaking of conference, our registration packet will be online as of January 1, 2013, so go take a look at it and then sign up! As one of the workshop chairs, I was extremely pleased with the depth and breadth of the proposals. If you want to learn more about iPads and other devises, there is a six-hour, no charge, preconference, hands-on workshop available for a limited number of participants, as well as a second four- hour afternoon preconference workshop. And that doesn’t include the one-class-per-session workshops on various applications, uses, and comparisons of these iOS and Android devices. For teens, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is presenting an all-day Teen Employment Workshop. Teens will actively participate in activities throughout the day designed to support them in navigating the employment process specific to vision loss. We’re hoping their families will attend our workshops for parents before joining them at the end of the day. And not to be left out, transcribers have detailed workshops on Braille Formats 2011 which will no longer be optional as of January 2013. Some new presenters and some we haven’t seen in a few years keep the subject matter pertinent and engaging. Also at the board meeting, CTEBVI decided to make the JOURNAL an online only publication. If all goes according to plan, this will be the last printed JOURNAL. About a third of our membership is already accessing the JOURNAL online. Our membership chair, Judi Biller, sends each of these members an email stating that the JOURNAL is now available online and gives them a link. See Judi’s announcement in this copy of the JOURNAL for more details. We want to use our funds wisely, not have to raise your membership dues, and reduce our paper consumption. This move will greatly reduce our costliest non-conference expense. And finally, as most of you will have heard by the time you read this, BANA adopted Unified English Braille (UEB) in November. They will now start an implementation plan. CTEBVI, a BANA member, will be actively involved in the planning of many of the issues going forth. This will be a multi-year endeavor, so most of us will not see any changes for some time (years) to come. But expect this to remain on our radar and eventually change all our lives. Patty Biasca 4 CTEBVI WINTER 2012-13 Volume LIV, No. 3 Gifts and Tributes OUR GRATITUDE AND THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT CTEBVI THROUGH GIFTS AND TRIBUTES General Fund Donna Coffee Fund Katie Sibert Fund Lisa Gessow Jamie Dote-Kwan Jamie Dote-Kwan Martha Pamperin Lisa Gessow Kathleen Talley Jacqueline Wise Contributions to the CTEBVI Gifts and Tributes Fund will be used to improve services to persons who are visually impaired. 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