New website for students with blindness who want to study STEM

[ph...@sonokids.com]

Dear colleagues and friends,

 

It is with great pleasure that I’d like to share the launch of a great new online educational resource, the website https://audiothrive.org/.

It is created by Argyrios, one of only few blind astrophysics PhDs in the world, with the goal to share resources for blind students who want to study STEM.

I had the pleasure of meeting Argyrios through the Sonification World Chat and at the Audible Universe Workshop.

The Audiothrive website offers valuable content and interesting topics presented with kindness and humour which makes it easily accessible for most ages.

Argyrios writes about his daily life, and how he studied physics without sight.

He discusses accessibility and technology, career and job searching tips, and he presents ‘Star stories’ where he will teach a bit of astronomy in a simple and accessible way.

 

Please check out https://audiothrive.org/ and share widely within your networks.
Please make your students aware of this great new resource.

I have added the link to Audiothrive to the STEM webpage on the SPEVI website: https://www.spevi.net/stem/

 

Kind regards,

Phia

 

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Phia Damsma
Creative Director Sonokids Australia - Developers of Accessible Educational Software and Apps https://www.sonokids.org

Fellow of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia

 

[Blake Collins]

Hello from the US,

I am a blind TVI and COMS. This is really exciting to see! Thank you Phia. I was reading through some of the resources and I wanted to highlight the Blind in Stem blog section. I have been teaching one of my students in high school student (grade 9) LaTeX this year by using Microsoft Word. It cuts out some of the complexity of Overleaf or other platforms to use LaTeX. While being slightly limited in what you can do with it, Word offers many of the base symbols and syntax you need to create matrices, complex fractions, summation notation etc for higher level math. It also allows for easier feedback from teachers I believe, as it removes the need for braille translation. I wrote a little article for Paths to Literacy about how to use LaTeX for TVIs here. 

Yours in education,

Blake Collins (she/her)

Washtenaw Intermediate School District

Teacher Consultant for Students with Visual Impairments

Peripatologist, COMS

bcol...@washtenawisd.org

cell: 734-312-0811
1819 South Wagner Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106

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