[duxuser] Re: DBT 11.1 - Learning Tables
- From: <Ann.Foxworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:07:56 -0600
This is great news for the state services for the blind in Texas as we have
written an entire braille curriculum around thos very tables in Duxbury. Our
instructors can open any reading passage in Duxbury and translate it to the
Lesson the student is working on. Now it will be more convenient for the
instructor to find those tables. THANK YOU DUXBURY!!!
ANN FOXWORTH, BRAILLE CONSULTANT
DARS/DBS
CRISS COLE REHABILITATION CENTER
4800 N LAMAR
AUSTIN, TX 78756
PH: 512-377-0471
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:15 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] DBT 11.1 - Learning Tables
This message may be of interest to anyone who is either teaching braille or
learning braille.
"Graduated Tables" was previously located way down at the end of the list of
languages in "Document: Translation Tables". It contained two BANA braille
courses and latterly one BAUK course.
The purpose is to allow additional braille material to be produced at whatever
level the student has reached when following a course.
In 11.1 this feature has been moved into the Document menu, and is now called
"Learning Tables".
Depending on what main braille Template you begin a document with, Learning
Tables will display courses appropriate for that language.
Consequently if you start with "English (American) - Standard Literary Format"
you will see:
NLS I.M.B.T.
TSVBI Clusters
If you have started with a British (English) Template you will see:
Braille in Easy Steps
Fingerprint
Take off Series
And starting with a Unified English Braille Template (UEB) you will see:
RNZFB STAR (from New Zealand)
S.A. Syllabus Level (from South Africa)
Additionally the menu shows Grade 1 at the top and Grade 2 at the bottom.
Within each course, you will see it is broken down into sections, books or
units, which follow the course material.
It is hoped that the inclusion of these tables will greatly assist in teaching
and learning braille following a recognised course, where the provision of
additional material at the level a student has reached, will help a student
become more fluent and confident in reading braille.
If anyone has any specific question on this subject, please feel free to ask
here.
George Bell
Managing Director
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
76 Bunting Road Ind. Est.
NORTHAMPTON, NN2 6EE, UK.
Tel: (01604) 792777
Fax: (01604) 792726
mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
web: http://www.techno-vision.co.uk
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