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Title: Designing Effective Tactile Displays Using the Tactile Graphics Kit Date: 8/22/24 Time (stated in Eastern Time):2:00-3:30 pm Duration:1.5 hours Description: Are you a TVI looking for great hands-on methods for creating tactile graphics with your students? APHs Tactile Graphics Kit provides a fun, convenient, and highly effective solution for designing and delivering graphics. How do you use aluminum sheeting for graphics creation, and which kinds of graphics work best with this process? How do you get these to your students, and involve them in the process? Spend some time with us learning the hows and whys of utilizing this wonderful kit in the classroom setting. Craft along with us as we make a few aluminum tactile graphics together for math, social studies, and science worksheets! Instructors Name: Leanne Grillot Title: Senior Director of Outreach Services, APH Email: lgrillot@aph.org Name: Jenny Wheeler Title: Southwest Regional Outreach Specialist, APH Email: jwheeler@aph.org Content Information: Primary Core or ECC Area:compensatory skills Target Audience: TVIs, O&M instructors, parents, paraprofessionals, and braille transcribers Pre-requisite knowledge: braille and basics of creating a tactile graphic Learning Objectives: Complete a plan for creating a meaningful and relevant tactile graphic using the Tactile Graphics Kit. Correlate tactile graphics design guidelines with tools from the Tactile Graphics Kit. Apply effective strategies to enhance readability and comprehension of tactile graphics when using the Tactile Graphics Kit. Utilize the Tactile Graphics Kit to successfully integrate braille keys and labels in a tactile graphic. ACVREP Credit is only available for the live presentation. To collect ACRVEP credit, please listen for the opening and closing codes, then submit these to the webinar certificate portal found at https://aphhive.org/#/ |
