Jeff,?Work on mental mapping skills. Have them review routes you know?they went on. ?Discuss possible?scenarios such as, what if they heard a vehicle on their right instead of their left? ?Ask them to describe what encounters they have when walking to the bus stop from the apartments. What do they hear, feel?? Over the phone, have them do a route in their head- for example, ? You walk out of the?apartment building and turn right. ?You walk to the end of the block?and turn right then you?walk?the entire block. At the corner you turn left and cross the street. Then you?turn right.?Which direction are you facing? What street are you facing? Which street did you just cross?? I?m sure you can come up with other scenarios. Read some articles from Kernal Books, the Braille monitor?or Future Reflections?and discuss them.? Dr. Merry-Noel Chamberlain Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, March 19, 2020, 4:13 PM, Deb & Jeff Altman <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote: <!--#yiv7682013418 _filtered {}#yiv7682013418 #yiv7682013418 p.yiv7682013418MsoNormal, #yiv7682013418 li.yiv7682013418MsoNormal, #yiv7682013418 div.yiv7682013418MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";}#yiv7682013418 a:link, #yiv7682013418 span.yiv7682013418MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7682013418 a:visited, #yiv7682013418 span.yiv7682013418MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv7682013418 span.yiv7682013418EmailStyle17 {font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";font-variant:normal !important;color:windowtext;text-transform:none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;}#yiv7682013418 span.yiv7682013418SpellE {}#yiv7682013418 .yiv7682013418MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";} _filtered {}#yiv7682013418 div.yiv7682013418WordSection1 {}--> Hello Everyone, ? Our agency is encouraging staff to work from home for the next couple of weeks or so, and with teaching O&M, that requires quite a bit of creativity. I have been calling students and giving them some basic assignments, and then checking back with them later to see how things have gone, but of course, this has its limits. My supervisor Greg has suggested working with them over the phone on some of the way finding apps, such as Goodle Maps and the like, which I can certainly do; although this is not where I usually focus. So, I?m wondering if any of you have some creative ideas you could share? I know that Joanne has asked this same question, and a few of you have responded, but I?m hoping there may be even more ideas being generated as we all begin shifting to this new mode of teaching. ? Thanks, Jeff ? _______________________________________________ NOMC mailing list NOMC at lists.nbpcb.org http://lists.nbpcb.org/listinfo.cgi/nomc-nbpcb.org