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Bringing Braille to Life with Paige Connect
8-28-26

>>Stephanie: Hello, everyone. Today I am here to introduce you to Paige Connect, which is a small device which turns Perkins Brailler into a digital device. And so we're going to go over Paige Connect as well as all the Paige tools that go along with that. I'm going to put a link in the chat box -- or there is a QR code on the screen -- to a quick pre-survey, just to find out what your professional titles are, as well as how familiar you are with the Paige Connect and the Paige Braille system. It's okay if you don't know anything at all. Or if you've been in and have figured it all out, I am excited to have people who have used it before. If you'll take a moment to fill out the pre-survey, it will be helpful to me as I go back and make changes to the presentation and review how everything went. So let me tell you just a small bit about me. I am Stephanie Walker. I am an outreach specialist for the South Central Region of APH. I have a background in TVI as well as I am a COMS. I previously was a state lead in Texas and headed up some of the professional development across the State of Texas. I worked with Region 11. I still currently live in Texas. I live in the Fort Worth area. That's about all you need to know about me, I'm sure. But I really like technology. I'm a big geek. I also am very big on you getting what you need out of a presentation. So please, if you have questions, please ask them. Put them in the chat. I have several points in the slide show where I will stop and answer questions. There's quite a bit to cover so we are going to go ahead and get started. By the end of our time together, you will be able to show how Paige Connect links a Perkins to a digital device, like a computer or an iPad. You will have tried some online practice activities, I hope, as long as you open them up and do them with me. And you will lead with ideas of how learners, teachers, and families can use them together. Can you put in the chat if you have access to a Paige Connect. If you have a student using it, any of that. Can you just say "yes" in the chat. If you do not have access to a Paige Connect, would you put "no" in the chat. Wow! Lots of noes. Okay. All right. Well, you will leave with something today that you can play with and you can help decide whether or not this is a tool that would be useful for you to include in your activities with your students going forward. So this is a perfect time of year to kind of look at it and see how it would help or not help. I'm a little biased, I guess. I have used it for a while and I absolutely love it. We have a few that have them but I saw a lot more noes than yeses. So we're going to talk about the Perkins Brailler. Louis Braille said Braille is knowledge and knowledge is power. Let's start with the tool that has put power in students' hands for generations, the Perkins Brailler. So the Perkins Brailler is used in classrooms for things like Braille lessons, short classroom work, spatial math, written work needing hard-copy Braille, such as oral presentation notes, those types of things, labeling. Much, much more. A Perkins Brailler is an essential tool for students. There are some drawbacks to using a Perkins Brailler. I will say there are some advantages too, for the big, metal, heavy Brailler. It is a workhorse and has held up for many years. But it definitely is dated and if you haven't been out to an infant or toddler's house or even a young child's house and introduced a new Braille writer and seen the shock and awe on parents' faces when they start realizing that the most basic tool that we're using looks like a typewriter and they don't even know what a typewriter is sometimes. I find that it's nice to bring it into the 21st century. All right. As soon as I can get my house -- there we go. So some of the drawbacks to a Perkins Brailler. There's no audio feedback in the Perkins Brailler at all. If you have been teaching young children, you probably have made up your own songs and fun things to learn the Perkins Brailler by. But there's no feedback as a part of it. That is fine. I mean, there's definitely audio feedback. It's loud. If someone who knows Braille is not present, then Braille mistakes won't be caught until later, which can lead to bad Braille habits. I also know that a lot of times I would be Brailling with my student and we would leave. There would be a nice piece of Braille paper or work. Everything we had done is in the Braille writer. I come back the next time thinking that that student would have finished whatever work we were starting on. And that piece of Braille had not been touched and the Braille writer had not been touched since I had been back. I have used many different things to get teachers engaged in Braille. From color coding, Braille charts to color coding and labeling. Numbers and all sorts of things on the Braille writer, just to get them engaged. But I have seen more engagement with this tool than I have seen before. Sighted peers and classroom teachers can't read what's written. And lower tech and less engaging than tools that are used by their sighted peers. Does anybody have a drawback to using a Perkins Brailler that I didn't list? They're heavy. They're clunky. All right. Some of the benefits to adding technology to Braille learning. There's actually research on this, on the benefits and the activity to adding all of these technology pieces and allowing for students and parents and teachers to be engaged in Braille. Instant feedback. So the learner can correct their mistakes quickly. It is motivating and engaging for the students. There is potential for more interaction with sighted teachers and peers. And this particular tool, I'll just throw it out there now. It's about -- I think it's $330 or something close to that on the website right now. It is a lower-cost tool and learners could have this at home for more practice with family and friends. I think once you see the tool in use you will kind of see what is going. Some of other things that are not -- whatever I'm trying to say here. The word disappeared from my vocabulary. That's okay. Older kids fear the noisiness of the Braille writer embarrassing them. Older kids don't want to carry it around. Mistakes, when caught by reading, are not easily erasable or fixed like they can be on a refreshable Braille display. Very true. Very true. We can't fix all of the problems with the Braille writer with Paige Connect but the team sure are working to fix those. For those of you that are research geeks like me, there is a research study out of -- it actually was with Texas students using the Mt. Batten Brailler and they researched how the interaction impacted students in the classroom using and learning Braille as well as parents interacting with their students. It does show that gamfying and adding instant translation does impact Braille use. A little background information about Paige Braille. Paige Braille was originally developed by a group of engineers as a college project. They quickly saw the practical applications for this tool in real life. They used it to solve a problem, which was that Braille was expensive and Braille tools are expensive, especially ones that do translation and are electronic. They have remained very committed to making it available at a low cost. It is now used by more than 2,000 Braille users and this team is very excited about helping make Braille easier to learn and more accessible for all. What we're going to look at today is version 2.0 of their website and all of their applications. After meeting with the Paige team, they took all of the information and feedback that we had and made a much more robust system with even more tools to help support our students in learning Braille. So, an introduction, in case you don't know what Paige Connect is. Paige Connect is the base of a Braille writer. And I'll show you a picture of it in just a minute. It is easy to attach to a traditional Braille writer. You don't get the Braille writer with the Paige Connect. It's just the bottom base. It connects to a traditional Braille writer. It allows for the Braille writer to work as a peripheral device. And it pairs along with a website that is completely free. An app that is also free. And some other newer tools that are really awesome on a laptop or desktop computer. So, those tools have audio feedback. Musical keys can be fun and motivating. It will point out mistakes in Braille. I know. It will. And it makes learning fun and engaging. So we will go into all of those aspects once I show you exactly how this goes together. So this is the guts of Paige Connect. You can see a white board on the screen with several U-shaped optical sensors. There are nine that align with the keys in your Braille writer. There is a USB-A power cord that goes from inside the board through a hole to the outside. It replaces the bottom of a traditional Braille writer. The board is durable. It connects through Bluetooth. I have carried this thing around all over the place and the most I've had to do was the last time I carried it around, I did not put it back in its box when I carried it from one place to another and I had to realign the base. But that was after quite a long, bumpy car drive. That wasn't bad at all. So in order to connect it, you turn your Braille writer over. You unscrew the base of your Braille writer. There are 11 screws, I believe, in the base of that Braille writer. You replace the base with the Paige Connect. You don't tighten all the screws until you make sure that your spacebar goes all the way down. That's your check to make sure it's aligned right so that the bottom of your key hits the optical sensor on the board. You tighten all the screws and then you can use it. It is really easy. The Paige Braille website has a video on how to connect it. It is a minute and a half long. A quick watch. It really is an easy thing to do. The hardest part about it is making sure that you're using a screwdriver that has magnetic ends so that you don't lose all those little screws that are in the bottom of the Perkins Brailler. Okay. Then the cord that comes off of the back of it is a power cord. It has a USB at the end of it. You can connect that USB power cord to a battery pack, a computer, a tablet through a dongle, a cell phone. It needs at least 5 volts DC. So you have to make sure you have a battery that meets that. But I will tell you that I have bought a cheap simple battery from Walmart to use when I present and do trainings and things on this. And it will stay powered all day. So you don't have to have a huge special battery to use this tool. In order to connect the Paige Connect to a device, you're going to make sure power is connected to the Paige Connect. Then you're going to go to the device you want to connect it to, whether it's a computer or a -- a computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a phone. Search for Bluetooth devices and Paige Connect should come up as a Bluetooth device. If it doesn't, you will want to make sure, one, Paige Connect has power. Check the battery, you have it plugged in and make sure that the battery is not dead. And two, you have to make sure that the Paige Connect isn't already connected to another device. If that makes sense. If it has already connected to another device, it won't show up in your Bluetooth to connect to. So if you are like me and you connect it to your iPad and your phone and your laptop, sometimes you have to go in and disconnect or turn off Bluetooth on some devices so that you can make sure it gets connected to the right device. Some of the benefits -- sighted peers and teachers can quickly read what's written. Students can use the translated text to hand in to classroom teacher work so that it can be graded, along with the sighted peers' work without needing translation. They can actually print or save a document that has the print version to go along with the Braille version. They can export to Word or BRF to share their work. And the new Paige input part works with most websites. Oh, the Paige Connect works with most websites and apps that support six-key entry. Those websites would be things like Perky Duck. That's an app. A website like UEB online to learn Braille, those types of websites. Students can practice both reading and writing through this device. Dual media users are more engaged with Braille, so they are more likely to find uses for Braille in classwork. It is engaging. It engages learners to continue learning. It is a great transition tool to other Braille tech and it's proven benefits to Braille literacy, which directly affects employment. So I don't know why this one says when not to use. I don't think that was the original title. I think I kind of got crazy. This is actually what to -- when it's not in use. When not in use. There's a Velcro strap at the back and you can put a Command strip on the back of your Braille writer and that Velcro strip will stick to the Command strip so you don't have a tail hanging all over the place. Some people have used the stick-ons that go on the back of your mixer that hold the cord. All right. So now let's get to the fun part. That's the hardware. Let's get into the software and the rest of the Paige Braille system. So we're going to start with translate and learn as their website. And translate and learn is free for you and your learner to use and you can use it today. You just need a computer keyboard and you can use ASD -- or excuse me. SDF and JKL, like we have used -- or at least I used in the past with Perky Duck with my Braille class. So you can try out all of these things today with us as we're going through and showing them. Now, I do have a question that's in the chat about VoiceOver that I will save for the end because it doesn't directly deal with Paige. And I could spend an entire hour session talking about VoiceOver alone. I'll save that one. Okay. So, I'm going to walk through some settings here with you. And then after we walk through all of these settings, I will demonstrate some of this for you so that you can see the tool in action. So this tool got an update just about a week and a half ago. Maybe two weeks ago. And it is a pretty significant update that it got. So now you are able to open your settings, which is a gear icon. If you're not familiar, settings is almost always a gear icon in any application that you go into. So you're going to open "settings" and in settings you can pick your Braille code. This is on Paige Braille's website and the "translate." Okay. You can pick your Braille code. They have -- I think there were over 130 different Braille codes that you could use. You can choose your math code in Nemeth or UEB Technical. There are other languages in the Braille code that can be selected. And you can choose the Braille pane, whether you want it to show ASCII Braille instead of dots. Or it can show the dots. And then you get to tell it whether it's six-key entry or not. And that comes into effect, depending on what tool you're using with the website. When you're using the Paige Connect tool, you don't have to change anything. The six-key entry, the Paige Braille tool does all of that. If you're using a keyboard, you have to tell it or checkmark the six-key entry to tell it to bypass and think of it as a six-key entry. If that makes sense. But they have done a lot of work to make sure that their Nemeth Code and UEB Technical code are correct, including talking to some of our experts to make sure they have everything right in there. Then you get to also choose speech settings. The application itself has onboard speech, so it is not necessary to have a screen reader while you are using the application. It can be brought up by a sighted individual and set up and used without a screen reader and still have voice or talking as a part of it. So you get to choose whether you have the app voice, screen reader, or you want speech off all together. There are some selections you can use for voices. And then there's also verbosity selections, much like we have in JAWS. You can choose to speech each letter as it's typed or deleted or speak each word when it's finished or speak the whole sentence when it ends, or speak wherever the cursor moves. And it also has some additional pieces at the top for save, load, and exporting. You can now save as eBraille. That is incorrect. It changed my Braille to eBraille. You can save as BRL. You can export BRF for Braille devices or Word. You can load BRF or text files. You can clear asks before emptying both panels. So you have math, help, save, export, load, and clear. I'll show you the actual pieces there. Here is a screenshot. It's a very tiny screenshot so we are going to bring it up in real life here in just a minute so you can see the additions they have added. If you have looked at Paige Braille previously and haven't looked at it in the last couple of weeks, there have been significant changes to it. So depending on your zoom rate, you have Braille on the left and print on the right. If you are zoomed in, then the print naturally goes underneath where the Braille is. It actually works both ways. Braille to print and print to Braille. You can click a word to highlight it and that word will have an explanation of the Braille underneath. On the screen, we have the sentence Brailled: this child still wants to go out. This is spelled out, even though it's set to grade 2 Braille. They didn't misspell this, THIS, but it did put a blue squiggly line underneath it in both the Braille and the text box. When you click on that squiggly line, it highlights in yellow, both boxes, so you can see word for word where it aligns. Then down in the bottom portion, where it has tips and tells you about Braille, it actually tells you each letter that is there, that there are five cells for four characters. Because it's a capital "this." There's no contraction. It's been spelled out. Then it says it can also be written as a dot 6 with a TH symbol, which is only two cells. So not only does it go so far as to translate it so that you can determine whether or not the student is answering questions or understanding something correctly, someone who does not know as much about Braille could go back and ask some questions about what was written. The student could read it back to the teacher in the classroom and the teacher in the classroom could say is there another way you could have written the word "this"? Even without knowing that "this" is a contraction. Now, it won't do that if it's in grade one Braille and you write it out in grade one Braille. It will show you how it aligns. So here is a writing example that has quite a few errors in it. You can see the blue dotted lines underneath where there are some errors. Whether they're Braille errors -- excuse me. Let me go back there. Whether they are Braille errors or not. You can also see -- I have it selected on Halloween. They spelled Halloween HALOWENE and it says eight cells for character. No contraction spelled out. Can also be written HALL -- and it shows the OW contraction and the EN contraction and then an EN contraction again. So it identified the word "Halloween" and gave information on how it should actually be spelled. So they've done a lot of work in math mode. So in math mode you can press Ctrl M to check the math mode to switch back and forth. When you press Ctrl M it will automatically add your beginning and ending Nemeth indicators as well. And as you can see here on the screen, there is an exclosed radical -- there's quite a problem here. It's A squared plus B squared times C squared but there's some additional things in there. And they actually have the part selected that is A to the 1 over N equals. And then it is a square root sign or something that I see over there. But it's going to tell you how to do, in UEB math, the A 1 over N and it takes the symbols and pulls them out for you, each individually. Okay. It shows real fractions, powers to the root, bottom bar explains every math sign. You can export it to Word with editable equations. So it will export to Word. Let me -- yellow box is there when only part of things could be read as well. And it will tell you when it's confused. Unrecognized cells are boxed in red. It says I have no clue what that dot 1, dot 46 is. It tells you which cell and which dots. It names what's missing, like an unclosed radical sign. So something important that you can see on this sample is that Braille and print line up. You can see can you and can you and it goes to the next line see. Arrow cells will move you through cell by cell. It is accessible with VoiceOver so students can go through and see where things might have Braille errors. Control, shift, L reads the line twice to spell it. Control key stops speech. If you know JAWS, control makes your JAWS be quiet. It does work with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver. You can use it with your favorite software. Here's a list of what those software are. UEB online. Braille brain, UEB math tutorial, Nemeth tutorial, Duxbury, BrailleBlaster, Perky Duck, Braille Zephyr, NVDA, and VoiceOver. I am not even familiar with all of those different websites and applications that we can use it with, but anything that uses six-key entry. Now, we get to discuss something I don't have any slides over but we're going to go and look at it ourselves. And that is Paige Input. What they have done, because they listened to the fact that we didn't just want to be able to write in Braille in an online web environment. We want to also be able to write in Braille in all of our applications and things on our computer, in our Word documents directly. Some of us want to be able to write directly into a Google document, those types of things. So they listened and now they have an application that you can download and install on your computer called Paige Input. It's completely free. You get the download from their application. It's a quick, easy install. And then I'll show you how it works, because it's really cool. It has a floating Braille view that you turn on. And then you can change it from six key to text entry. And when it's in six-key entry, it will do the same types of things that it's doing in the translate environment, but directly into a document. You're not going to necessarily get all the feedback pieces, I don't believe, but it is kind of neat. So I'm going to stop right here for just a minute and I'm going to look at the questions. And then we are going to go and explore the website. All right. When using the light touch Perkins Brailler, you have to press down on the keys a little harder because the keys do not connect to the Paige Connect as well as the regular Perkins Brailler. Yes, I would not suggest you use -- I suggest you use the regular Perkins Brailler with it. However, they did try it with multiple, multiple things. The new plastic Braillers I don't think work with it but all of the other Braillers are supposed to work very well with it. But thank you for that feedback and thank you for letting us know. And everybody here. Okay. Okay. So, I think we need to go over how Paige Braille looks and how it compares. Because you don't need VoiceOver on your phone to access Paige Braille at all. So the person who asked about VoiceOver things, that's the biggest piece is you don't need to know how to use VoiceOver to access it. When we go and look at the app in just a minute, you will see that there's no need to know Braille. There's no need to know VoiceOver. What you need to know how to do is connect a Bluetooth device. Which most of our parents are actually very good at. All right. Let's hit "share" and we are going to share -- I'm not sure we're sharing sound. All right. So now you should be able to see the Paige Braille Learn site. We are actually -- I'm going to go to their homepage here. All right. So you have everything you need on the homepage down to resources on how -- and videos on how to connect it. But we are going to go to the Translate, which opens up in a new dialogue. Okay. I am going to zoom in on this, because it's quite small for y'all. And so it's quite possible -- let's see. We'll take it to 90 so it's still right next to each other, but now you can see we have Braille on one side and text on the other side. I am going to make sure that the box is blue, because that is one thing you need to make sure before you start typing using your Perkins Braille writer. I am going to do two things here. I am going to show you what it looks like to type into the Translate and then I am going to flip my share and show you from the Braille writer viewpoint what it looks like at the same time here. So let's check our settings real quick. We're in Nemeth, English grade 2. We are in six-key entry. So I need to take that off, I believe. App voice, we are going to turn on. 

>>App voice. 

>>Stephanie: And we'll have "speak with the cursor moves." I do not have VoiceOver on. Oh. This is perfect. Did you see what that typed? It typed DFK. That's because I actually took off the -- 

>>Six-key entry on. Settings closed. 

>>Stephanie: So we're going to take that off and we're going to try this again. Now, just know that it doesn't erase it on the Perkins Brailler. I went to a new line on the Perkins Brailler and now I'm going to try again. Oh, look. I made mistakes. 

>>Four cells for six characters. Contracted. 

>>Stephanie: So I can say I don't think that's what I was supposed to do. 

>>Braille. 

>>Stephanie: And let's backspace. Let's try YOU and see -- oh, it's ING because I am doing a reversal. Let's try this again. My brain's not functioning today. Let's see what it says about HX. 

>>HX spelled out in two cells. Hi. Spelled out in two cells. How. Two cells for three characters. Contracted. Are. Two cells for three characters. Contracted. 

>>Stephanie: Okay. I have a question about paper. So let me switch this so you can see what I am doing. So we're going to switch this to my visualizer here and hit "share" so you can see what I am doing. Oh, I was writing but nothing's happening. 

>>Space. 

>>Stephanie: Okay. Let's try that again. Okay. So we have: Hi. How are you? And it is going right there. Let's go back here. 

>>Braille. 

>>Stephanie: All right. So, yes, I have paper in there. When you are doing the learn, you will need paper. But you do not have to have paper for it to be connected and working, if that makes sense. It's really awesome. You would still use paper with it because the point is to read it back. When I show you the learn features, I think you'll see why that's important. And then we had a question from Jade that says -- well, a statement more than a question. I started using Paige Connect last April and took the summer off and wow! There's been so many updates. I love it! Yes, there have been a lot of updates and I will tell you if you used it previously and you're using it again, that it is -- it's more stable of a connection. I know in the beginning it released a little bit back and forth, so they changed the stability of the connection just a little bit to help improve that. So let's go back to Paige Braille and I'm going to show you how to download. You would just hit "download for Mac or Windows" for that piece. Then I am going to have to share an entire screen here. Okay. So, I am going to come down on my computer somewhere, whenever I can get back to -- down here at the bottom of my computer I have Paige Input. And I am going to put "show Braille view" real quick and I am going to go right back to the web browser I have open. Knowing how many people in Texas are using Google and Google Classrooms, I decided this would probably be great to demonstrate in a Google Doc. It also works in a Microsoft doc, all of that. Right now it's in text keyboard mode and I am going to press Ctrl, alt, B. You can see it is now in Braille view mode. The last thing I did in Braille view was "you." We are going to type: Hi. How are you? Again. Hi. How are you? So that is directly in the Google Doc on the website. And I am typing that in using the Perkins Brailler. So that is how Paige Input works. And then while we have this on, let's go ahead and take a second and look at Paige Learn, because that is a really, really neat part of this tool. You have the option, both in Paige Learn as well as in the Translate to turn on or off music. 

>>Settings. Nemeth selected. 

>>Stephanie: So, well maybe we lost the music. 

>>Braille code. English grade two. Contracted. 

>>Stephanie: I think they might have changed that and I didn't realize that until just now. But you can do music lessons. Let me close this. Music lessons or you can do audio. And all you have to do -- you don't need access to a screen reader, you just turn audio on and it will act as the screen reader for the students. Not in navigating but in knowing what's going on on the screen. If that makes sense. You can click on any of these and you can look. You have a write activity, a read activity, and a review activity. The write activity will be writing out letters or words or other things, depending on what lesson it is. This first one is ALDT. The write activity would include learning those letters. The read is grayed out because we haven't completed the write activity. The read activity has you reading back what you wrote. If you don't have paper in the Braille writer you can't read back the letters and the pieces that you wrote. It does both sets of that. Okay. It goes through -- there's numbers, punctuation, alphabetic wordsigns, strong groupsigns. There is also a homework, create new option. So you can go in and create your own lesson name and save it for homework as well. This can be tailored specifically for your student. Now, another piece that's a piece of the Learn platform is that Paige Braille did listen to us when we said we're teachers and we like to take data. We need to take data. We have to be able to. So you can now sign up and log on. And it will track your learning. It does this through your internet browser. And so everything is saved locally within your internet browser so that it's not ever transported outside of that internet browser. So sometimes there can be some instances where your cache or something gets messed up and there may be some pieces in there. But it basically saves a file that's like that. Locally it's within your browser. It's really cool. You don't have to worry about too much there. And it will track what you've done. Okay? Let's see. Let's go back to our PowerPoint so I can show you the rest of what's in there. Let me get back down here so I can see questions. All right. So that was Paige Input. So, within the Paige Connect Paige Braille system you can create an account. It does require or ask that you be over the age of 18 years old to create the account so they are following both international and national standards, since they're from the U.K. No personal data is collected. So you can sign up -- you can sign up right now and try it out, as a teacher. There's another picture of the progress that it keeps. It keeps time that you spent, days active, which days you were active, and section progress as you move through. Okay. So you log in per one e-mail address. And then independent navigation of the screen needs a screen reader software. If the student is independent, they need a screen reader. If the student is not independent, you can just turn on the sound and musical notes in each section. So, when you're ready to start, something that I kind of pointed out within the translate feature that is also within the learn feature is we have to make sure our focus is set on the answer box. And the other thing is you have to make sure you're paying attention because it won't tell you you've done the right thing until after you have pressed the spacebar. If it tells you to practice embossing the letter L, you have to press the letter L and then space and then it will give you a correct piece. Okay? So there's just another picture to make sure you understand blue box. And then it will, at the bottom of each page, track the progress, depending on what level you're on. So this is an example of progress in current sublevel 1 of 16 and then 2 of 10. Taken from different screenshots of different lessons. Okay? I think I've gone over this four activity types. You write, which is practice embossing or writing Braille. Read, copy out what you have embossed. Review, reinforce what you have learned, and challenge, put what you know to the test. As a teacher, one of the most -- the pieces you want to know and tell your classroom teacher is that there's hints. There is a "how it works" button at the bottom of each one of those pages right before it tells you your progress. And when you click on that "how it works," it actually gives you a hints pane that goes through the entire lesson. Okay? This, as a teacher, is really great so you know this particular lesson we clicked on has practice embossing Braille. HOB, HBO. HBO. That's the order it goes in. Then it will say copy out what you have embossed. Press space to get started. And then it will do all that. And then these ball, bat, bell, baby, these are all practice words that will be in there. So that you have activity to all of that as a teacher. Okay. Here's an example of a writing activity. After you complete the activity, space twice and return carriage to be ready for read activity. First time the letter, symbol, or contraction is spoken, so are the corresponding Braille dots. It gives you the dots in the beginning and then it will slowly ask you to write it without dots. An example of a read sample is you can only practice reading immediately after you write. That's because you need what you wrote to read. The letters are identified by the number. Example 1-12. And are asked in order. It is in letter order for the lessons. And I do have an additional handout that I did not remember to send Kaycee's way, so I will send it as soon as we are done here. And it is actually a handout of all of the lessons and lesson orders that we have. I will tell you I did not update that when the site got an update. I don't believe the Learn site has changed. But if you find that something has changed in it, if you'll let me know, we can get it updated. And here's an example of a review activity. It can be completed without completing read and write components. It's not available for punctuation symbols or short form words. It is the same letters, words, sentences in the same order each time. It doesn't change the order. And letters and punctuation from previous levels are included. So when you go into review, it puts it all together and you move on. And then here is an example of a challenge activity. Challenge activities can be completed without completing read, write, or review. And a challenge is failed after five wrong answers. Okay? Now, I have screenshots that I am going to skip because I am going to share with you how those are laid out. And we are going to skip down to homework, because we are getting close to the end of time here. Here is a screenshot of a homework assignment. You can create new and name the lesson. Then you want to type in your questions, words, or phrases that you're wanting them to type out and press "save." Then the student opens the homework to practice and you can go back and edit it as much as needed. There is a Paige app. So when I said you don't need to know VoiceOver, it's because they have an app. It's not the input feature, it's an app for a mobile device. And so this app is really kind of a lot of fun. There is a portion of this app that came with APH and that portion of the app is free. There is an upgrade for the app that you can do. I paid $6.99 for my upgrade so I can play Wordle every day. And that was for me personally trying to keep up my own Braille skills. So it will help you learn UEB on your iPhone, iPad, or Braille. It is similar in format to the Learn. It has alphabet through grade two. It does have games and those games are what you get when you do the one-time universal upgrade. It's not -- yeah. You get a Daily Braille Wordle, a Dot Builder, and a Streak Run. It does have a translator in it. It does have a reference library. It does have VoiceOver and Braille keyboard support. So you can use the app along with other devices. For example, the Chameleon or other pieces of technology that have six-key entry. And that's the important part. You can go on your app today and download it and play with it. It's a lot of fun. So of course at the very end of everything is the Paige Connect basic information of what you get when you order Paige Connect through APH. But I encourage you to go and check out the software. Check out the app. Check out all of those pieces before you decide whether or not this is a tool that is useful for the toolbox for your student's toolbox. It's not going to solve all of your problems but it might get your student using Braille in the classroom, just a little more. All right. I am going to put this up here. I have to go grab the link to my post-survey to see if you actually even learned anything from listening to me gibber jabber at you today. And it is perfectly the time I get to hand it back to Kaycee. I'm going to put this survey in and then I will change it to my contact information in case anybody needs to get a hold of me for any questions. 

>>Kaycee: Perfect. Thank you so much, Dr. Walker. Thanks so much for coming today and sharing on this. This is super cool. I didn't know what this device did before today and I can see how it would be super helpful, especially at the lower price point to be able to get digital Braille happening. That's awesome.