Braille Boot Camp is four days of hands-on experiential learning focused on braille and tactile graphic production. Susan O'Brien and Sharon Nichols will lead participants through both small group and individual activities to create braille and tactile graphic documents.
Activities include:
• Document conversion into editable text.
• Braille Document Production for Literary, Foreign Language, Mathematics and Technical materials.
• Tactile Graphic Production of one-page and multiple-page tactile graphics.
• Creation of Templates for basic shapes and Cartesian coordinate planes.
• Applying braille format and tactile graphic placement decision-making.
• Opportunity to work with graphic embossers and software programs used in producing tactile graphics.