New Student Material Order From Walkthrough

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Here is a quick walkthrough of our new order form to enter your student orders. We have also updated our Handbook for Ordering Instructional Materials to provide great information and tips to assist you when placing your student orders.

Link to New Student Materials Order Form

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IMC Team

Weekly Dose of Braille

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Let me introduce you to the Preference Rule and see if it helps you decide when and how to use contractions in certain situations. Remember, when the word is unfamiliar and when the pronunciation or syllabification is unknown, then it is OK for contraction use to be based on the best judgment of the transcriber and/or proofreader.

So many wonderful rules and we are fortunate to have them in place for us to ALWAYS refer to, one of my favorite spots to double check myself, is making reference to the Rules of Unified English Braille 2013 handbook.

— Denise Bean

New Weekly Dose: The Preference Rule

For more information and to see past Weekly Dose of Braille topics check out our Weekly Dose of Braille Page.

The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. This insightful Weekly Dose of Braille brings your attention to the common use of Unified English Braille and how to implement these rules and formats used by braille transcribers and proofreaders. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question, but are neatly put into a Weekly Dose of Braille for your easy access. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.

Textbook Order Quick Tips

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Here are a few tips to help with textbook orders:

  • Please include title, author, ISBN, publisher, copyright, and date needed by for each book. Be sure to use the ISBN from the back cover by the bar code. Omit hyphens when entering the ISBN into the form.
  • Provide a pacing guide, which includes a timeline and the order in which the material will be covered.
  • In braille textbooks, the print page numbers are located in the upper right hand corner and Braille page numbers are located in the lower right hand corner.

Thanks, IMC Team

Weekly Dose of Braille

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We sometimes will come across words we have to look up in order to understand how and when they should be used to determine how a contraction is used or not used. For those that do not know the meaning of the word Anglicized, you better take a closer look at this week’s dose. — Denise Bean

New Weekly Dose: Using UEB contractions Foreign Text

For more information and to see past Weekly Dose of Braille topics check out our Weekly Dose of Braille Page.

The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. This insightful Weekly Dose of Braille brings your attention to the common use of Unified English Braille and how to implement these rules and formats used by braille transcribers and proofreaders. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question, but are neatly put into a Weekly Dose of Braille for your easy access. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.