What
Established in August of 2012 by a handful
of teachers of the blind and visually impaired,
#BrlChat is a Twitter chat for professionals in the
field of blindness. The community has slowly
grown and now includes people from around the
world. In addition to teachers, the community consists of university faculty, pre-service teachers,
blind students, parents, rehabilitation counselors,
blind and low-vision adults, and librarians.
This school year, the community voted to have
the chats on the third Wednesday of each month
at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Members of the
community generate topic ideas that are posted
in a monthly topic poll. The topic that wins the
most votes drives the next conversation. Previous
#BrlChat topics have included:
Collaborating with regular education teachers
and other members of a child's educational
team
Unified English Braille code
Working with students who are English Language Learners (ELL)
What our students want us to know - a conversation with blind students from across the
country
Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum
(ECC)
Each conversation is archived as an Excel file
and posted on the #BrlChat Web page at http://
goo.gl/S45l0l, so it can be accessed at any time
by anyone who is interested.
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