I have accomplished just about every thing I've wanted to with learning braille. I feel as if this was a great experience to learn something new. I will continue to practice braille regularly in order to get ready for my final presentation on the subject of blind children. I am also planning on making a small children's book written in braille that I plan to show to my class during my senior project presentation. Thank you to all who have read my blog.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
NUMB3RS
Learning single-letter contractions takes a lot of work. I guessed it would be challenging and I was right. Every letter abbreviated a bigger word.
The next thing would be to learn two-letter contractions but i'm going to skip to learning numbers because I just want to learn basic braille for now. Just Enough to Know Better teaches more in depth with braille if one wanted to go that far.
Numbers 1-9 are the same as the first nine letters of the alphabet and zero is a j. To transform these letter into numbers, you place a number sign in front of them, like this:
The next thing would be to learn two-letter contractions but i'm going to skip to learning numbers because I just want to learn basic braille for now. Just Enough to Know Better teaches more in depth with braille if one wanted to go that far.
Numbers 1-9 are the same as the first nine letters of the alphabet and zero is a j. To transform these letter into numbers, you place a number sign in front of them, like this:
When writing double or larger digits, you place the number sign in front of the first digit only.
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