Here are a few ideas How are you monitoring students safety and problem solving if you are only on the phone with them? Have you been able to teach in person so long as you stay six feet away? If so how does this work with monitoring and communication. With the increasing use of AIRA, how are you advising students to use or avoid these technologies at this time. Resources for disposable gloves, masks and sanitizers that would make it possible to be in live training at least to some degree. If only teaching via distance, do you focus more on philosophy, mental mapping, route planning, or concepts? Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness Louisiana Tech University 600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall PO Box 3158 Ruston LA 71272 Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 <mailto:ebell at latech.edu> ebell at latech.edu www.pdrib.com ************* "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould From: NOMC <nomc-bounces at lists.nbpcb.org> On Behalf Of Keller, Becky Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 4:17 PM To: NOMC Mailing list <nomc at lists.nbpcb.org> Subject: Re: [Nomc] NOMC Zoom Meeting Proposals Hello again all, I'm sending out another call for questions or topics that you wish to have discussed in our upcoming Cane Travel meeting this Tuesday. I have not received anything as of yet to put on the agenda, so please respond as soon as you can. Thanks in advance for your time and thoughts. Hope you are enjoying a nice weekend. Take care and talk to you soon, Becky Keller, NOMC, COMS Lead Orientation and Mobility Instructor Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+Azalea+Avenue+Richmond,+VA+23227+(804&entry=gmail&source=g> 401 Azalea Avenue <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+Azalea+Avenue+Richmond,+VA+23227+(804&entry=gmail&source=g> Richmond, VA 23227 <tel:(804)%20371-3093> (804) 371-3093 becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov <http://becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov/> Facebook: VDBVI <https://www.facebook.com/VDBVI> Worldwide Web: Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired <http://www.vrcbvi.org/> YouTube: VRCBVI <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwsqnBw28gUNgMMSkH_eYci37g9XY6Qzd> "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." -Arthur Ashe **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE** This message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the intended recipient), you may not read, print, retain, use, copy, distribute, or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and destroy all copies of the original message (including any attachments). On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:49 PM Keller, Becky <becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov <mailto:becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov> > wrote: It's me again, last email of the day from me...promise! I revisited a very well learned life lesson today. I guess it didn't sink in the first time I experienced it though...smile. I decided this morning to offer up the suggestion that we possibly create an outline or agenda for our Cane Travel meeting, so that we may have a little more structure rather than just shooting from the hip. That being said, after my suggestion was made, it was bounced back at me to come up with said outline. Lesson relearned...if you come with an opinion...be ready with an answer! LOL. Anyway, I am again coming to you all for suggestions, thoughts, ideas, and most importantly questions that you have that you wish to be discussed during our next gathering. Also, I sheepishly suggested that we have a designated moderator lead the next discussion. Jeff, I believe you graciously took on this role last evening partway through the call, and personally I felt that in doing so you kept us more grounded. Would you like to continue with this role? Please forgive me if I'm presuming incorrectly, and let me know if there is someone else that would like to moderate, or even, let me know if you all feel that we don't need a set moderator. Thanks again in advance everyone for all of your input. In response to this email, please reply to me directly rather than replying to all. I will compile all of your comments and questions to share with Dr. Bell prior to next week. Thanks again for everything! Take care and stay safe, Becky Keller, NOMC, COMS Lead Orientation and Mobility Instructor Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+Azalea+Avenue+Richmond,+VA+23227+(804&entry=gmail&source=g> 401 Azalea Avenue <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+Azalea+Avenue+Richmond,+VA+23227+(804&entry=gmail&source=g> Richmond, VA 23227 <tel:(804)%20371-3093> (804) 371-3093 becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov <http://becky.keller at dbvi.virginia.gov/> Facebook: VDBVI <https://www.facebook.com/VDBVI> Worldwide Web: Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired <http://www.vrcbvi.org/> YouTube: VRCBVI <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwsqnBw28gUNgMMSkH_eYci37g9XY6Qzd> "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." -Arthur Ashe **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE** This message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential. 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