Bookshare Blog Posts

A guest post from Munawar Bijani, whom we met at ACB in Reno, NV, 2011. We asked him to write about Three-D Velocity, his flight simulator game for people who are blind. Munawar is a currently a student at University of Central Florida. His site also has other real-time and turn-based games for people who are blind or visually impaired. Flying Faster, Higher We’ve heard of blind people driving cars because of the National Federation of the Blind’s Blind Driver’s Challenge. We’ve heard of blind people driving tanks, piloting submarines, and participating in races thanks to audio games. Still, there…

Making Research Fun with Bookshare – Part One A guest post from Deborah (Debee) Armstrong, the alternate media specialist at De Anza Community College in Cupertino CA. When you think of doing research over the summer, do you immediately think, “Oh no, this is not going to be fun and definitely not over the summer!” I thought so! How do I know this?  I am a college alternate media specialist with vision impairments.  I scan textbooks for print-impaired students and assist them with discovering alternate reading and study methods.  I do lots of research and consider myself to be pretty…

A post from Collection Development Manager Carol James We’ve seen so many images of strife on the evening news, and so many stories of seemingly intractable conflicts in the Middle East.   In recent months, we’ve also witnessed exciting, and sometimes violent, impulses towards change and new beginnings.  How much do we really understand about the rich cultural and historical diversity of the many countries that make up the modern Middle East?  From Kandahar to Benghazi, this list of books by historians, journalists, government insiders and people of the region themselves may deepen, broaden, and challenge our understanding of what’s happened…