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We’re ready to launch month two in the year 2020 and have lined up five webinars to help you learn more in February. In addition, we’re adding one to help get you familiar with how certain functions on our website work. Each of the webinars this month are free for anyone to attend and will last about fifteen minutes. No registration is required, you can just simply hit the link below the description of each webinar a few minutes before the scheduled start time. Remember that if you’re a current NBA member and can’t attend the live webinar as it’s…
Read MoreIn starting off the New Year, we’re adding a couple additional opportunities for you to jump in with some online learning this month. Each of the below webinars is entirely free and open to anyone with an internet connection. To join us live for any of the webinars listed here, just click the link below the description. Our free webinars usually last about 15 minutes and are intended to be a quick look at specific aspects of braille transcription work. All levels of expertise are encouraged to join, as we think there’s always a little something more to learn! Remember,…
Read MoreIn 2009, a long time Board Member and friend of NBA passed away suddenly. There were many individuals who wished they had been able to thank and honor this individual for everything she had done before she passed. It was through this desire that the concept of the NBA Lifetime Achievement Award was born. Each year, the NBA Board of Directors seeks to find a braille transcriber that is worthy of receiving an award honoring their work. For the 2019 award, we are proud to announce that the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award is Robert Stepp. Award Reception As…
Read MoreTo wrap up a year of online learning we’re going to celebrate the month of December with five different webinars! We’ll have our usual Formats Friday covering part of the Braille Formats code, and our usual Music Mondays that will cover part of the Music Braille Code. Then we’re adding a Foreign Language webinar, a Tactile Graphics webinar, and a special UEB for Technical Materials webinar. The first four mentioned above will follow the usual format of our free, shorter-length webinars. They last about fifteen minutes and anyone is welcome to attend without registering in advance. For these, you can…
Read MoreAs codes are announced and their complex applications become part of a transcriber’s routine, there are sure to be questions. For over a decade our team of transcribers have been answering your technical questions about braille on our Ask An Expert forum. This week Cindi Laurent, President of the National Braille Association is announcing a brand new forum topic to handle a brand new set of questions. She writes: NBA is growing our services! We are pleased to announce that our latest forum on Ask on Expert has gone live. The UEB Technical forum is a place for you to…
Read MoreWe may be winding down from our conference in Phoenix, but we’re winding up with our webinar schedule! Whether or not you’re a member, as long as you have an internet connection you can join in at any time to our free webinars. They last around 15 minutes or so, and provide an opportunity to learn a bit more on a wide array of topics tailored to transcribers and teachers of the visually impaired. Here’s our lineup of free webinars for November. To join, you just click the link a few minutes before start time! (Please note that there is…
Read MoreEach year during our Professional Development Conference we host a Silent Auction. For one-and-a-half days during the conference, attendees outbid one another on an array of items donated from individuals and organizations. All of the proceeds raised during the Silent Auction directly support our efforts to provide educational services to transcribers and teachers of the visually impaired. There is always a great collection of items. We receive handmade goodies, crafted things, artwork, consumer electronics, and an endless list of other fun things. While the conference itself is always a lot of fun, the Silent Auction is particularly exuberant. In fact,…
Read MoreThe Fall 2019 BULLETIN: Vol. 55, No. 3 is now available for current NBA Members to download right from our website! Once you’re logged in, navigate to the “My Account” using the link at the very top of your screen. Then you’ll find a link to go to view the Bulletin. 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…
Read MoreWe are now just a few weeks from the start of our annual Professional Development Conference! We’ve been busy prepping to greet those of you who are joining us in Phoenix this year, and wanted to provide a few updates. No Onsite Registration During previous conferences, we’ve allowed attendees to show up at the conference and register on-site. This year, many of our workshops have reached their capacity for attendance, so onsite registration will not be an option for Phoenix. We would hate for anyone to travel and incur expenses of getting to the conference and then not be able…
Read MoreWe’re hoping that you’re among those who will be joining us for our 2019 Professional Development Conference in Phoenix this month. If you’re not able to be with us but still want to learn a few new transcription tricks, the October webinar lineup is now officially announced! We did shift a few dates for the regularly occurring Formats Friday and Music Mondays, so be sure to pay close attention with dates on this month’s schedule. Formats Friday: NotesPresenter: Cindi LaurentFriday, October 11 at 1:00p EST Description: Section 16.7 talks about miscellaneous note issues. Let’s look at some more examples of…
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