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Last year a group of friends created a 3-D braille book of Dear Zoo. We gave copies out to the Norton Library, the L.G. Nourse and J.C. Solmnese Elementary schools while keeping one in one of our teachers rooms. This year we decided to make another book, except without a template.
Last year a group of friends created a 3-D braille book of Dear Zoo. We gave copies out to the Norton Library, the L.G. Nourse and J.C. Solmnese Elementary schools while keeping one in one of our teachers rooms. This year we decided to make another book, except without a template.
If you want to print your own copy download it here! Dear Zoo Emotions Book
Check out the very first tactile picture book in the Sails network! (Dear Zoo) Sails Network to the book
OUR GOAL
OUR GOAL
This is the beginning of new communities. There have been advancements in technology and medicine to help a lot of people. But there still are not many books for people who use braille. So we decided to make one. It took lots of early mornings, errors, and successes but in the it was all worth it to see the final project. And soon after, we wanted to do the same thing again. We hope that this technology can be used for good and that more book can be made for kids and adults with all different disabilities and circumstances.
Our Project
Our Project
We did not go with a book that is famous or well known, but created our own. We created an Emotions book. We did this because some kids can not see, so they have to feel your face to recognize you. So we felt that is important that they can know what emotion you are feeling and they are not left out. At the beginning this was just an idea in our heads and a goal in our imaginations. But with the help of our STEM teacher and encouragement we have been able to complete this idea and achieve the goal that started in our heads.
The Book
The Book
It was a unanimous decision for both books to make the pages each a different color. This way it applies to kids who can see or who can partially see. For our first book Dear Zoo, we edited a book template from the University of Colorado. But then when we decided to make another book the next year, we had no template. Being sisters helped this process of deciding. We could talk over solutions to problems or how to make it better. We had pictures, braille lettering, and letters spelling out or showing the picture.
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