Podcast appearances and mentions of Ellen Goodman

In this episode of Big Conversations, Little Bar, hosts Patrick Evans and Randy Florence welcome Ellen Goodman from the Palm Springs Unified School District Foundation. Ellen shares her journey from the East Coast to the Coachella Valley, highlighting her rewarding transition into the nonprofit sector. As the first employee hired by the Foundation, Ellen recounts her experiences in raising funds crucial for enriching school life beyond standard academics. You'll learn about the many initiatives she's spearheaded, such as providing shoes for homeless students and enhancing arts and technology programs through grant funding—all ensuring that the fun and community-building elements of education are accessible to all. Tune in as Ellen discusses the importance of community involvement, the challenges of nonprofit fundraising, and the dynamic, supportive environment of the Coachella Valley, driving meaningful change and supporting future generations.Takeaways:• The Foundation raises funds for programs not covered by taxpayer money.• The importance of community-oriented programs like providing shoes for homeless students.• Ellen's unique career path, transitioning from corporate franchising to nonprofit.• Strategies for successful nonprofit fundraising in a community-driven town.• Overcoming challenges: Pivoting during COVID to support essential family needs.• Focused outreach: Introducing arts and tech programs in schools.• Engaging community commitment for strengthening educational infrastructure.• Collaboration with the McCallum Theatre to advocate for school arts programs.#BigConversationsLittleBarPodcast #Patrick Evans #RandyFlorence #McCallumTheatre #SkipsLittleBar #MutualBroadcastingSystem #EllenGoodman #EducationSupport #CoachellaValleyLife #PalmSpringsUnified #CommunityInvolvement #NonprofitImpact #EducationalFunding #ArtsAndEducation #SchoolCommunity #SupportLocalSchools #EducationalEnrichment #HelpingStudentsThrive #CommunityDriven #ValleyInitiatives #FundraisingGoals #ShoesForStudents #SupportEducation #PalmSpringsPrograms #InspireChange #EducationalPrograms

In today's episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, host Billy Mitchell examines the implications of the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Chevron deference and its impact on federal AI regulation. The 6-3 ruling removes the requirement for courts to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutes, complicating the Biden administration's efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. Legal experts, including Ellen Goodman from Rutgers Law School, caution that this decision will lead to increased legal challenges and highlight the need for clear legislative directives from Congress. This development underscores the potential need for establishing a new AI-focused regulatory agency. The episode also highlights new bipartisan legislation aimed at streamlining the fragmented cybersecurity regulations in the United States. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) have introduced the Streamlining Federal Cybersecurity Regulations Act, which proposes the creation of an interagency committee led by the national cyber director. This committee would identify and address inconsistent or contradictory cybersecurity requirements across federal agencies. The bill responds to concerns raised during recent Senate hearings about regulatory fragmentation and aims to establish consistent cybersecurity standards.

In this episode of Two Think Minimum, Ellen Goodman, a distinguished professor of law at Rutgers Law School and former Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce discusses artificial intelligence accountability policy. The podcast revolves around the NTIA AI Accountability Policy Report, which was released in March 2024, which Goodman was the principal author of. Goodman shares insights into the process of gathering and analyzing public comments for the report, the challenges of defining accountability in the context of AI, and the complexities of establishing standards in a rapidly evolving field. The conversation also touches on the potential impact of AI on labor markets, the role of auditors in ensuring AI accountability, and the government's own use of AI technology. Goodman concludes by discussing her current research on AI and copyright issues, particularly the copyrightability of AI-generated outputs.

Wanna hear my experience with getting closure after a bad season? Here it goes! Here's a quote from Ellen Goodman.... "There's a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seasonedwithsalt/support

Dan and Ellen talk with Terrence Williams, president and COO of The Keene Sentinel in Keene, New Hampshire, one of the oldest newspapers in the country. Terry and The Keene Sentinel are the creators of the Radically Rural conference, now in its fifth year, which will be held later in September. The conference looks at issues such as housing, farming, the environment and — most important to us — community journalism. Dan has a Quick Take on The Salt Lake Tribune's new venture, called Mormon Land. Ellen highlights a podcast called Shevotes, which recounts the battle for suffrage and recounts historic efforts at voter suppression. Award-winning journalists Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr cohost, and actress Christine Baranski makes a contribution, too.    

Professor Ellen Goodman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and how we can combat disinformation on social media through media policy, platform policy and algorithmic governance.

Episode 198: She Made a Difference for a LivingSomeone at the memorial service on Monday referred to her as a homespun philanthropist, though I doubt she would have liked that description. Her wit was too sharp to fit the mellow image of homespun. As for philanthropist? She once said, “That's such a pretentious word.” Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast. The clip I've just shared comes from a woman't obituary that died probably 25 years ago.  So many years ago, I can't remember the date, I ripped an article out of the Boston Globe newspaper called, “She made a difference for a living.” The article is yellowed and brittle, and if I had to guess I'd say it's around 25 years old. Stay tuned in today's episode for how Elizabeth Noyce became a one-woman economic development corporation in the 80's and 90's, without the Internet, and see what her story means to you.   When Elizabeth Noyce died Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe wrote an article that highlighted her life. I've been through many a business class where we are asked to write our own obituary and what we want to be known for/what our business wants to be known for, so we can plan now and reverse engineer what we do. I doubt that Elizabeth Noyce did this, but I'm sure any of us would be very pleased indeed to have a write-up like this done about us after we pass. Elizabeth Noyce was as unpretentious as her adopted state of Maine. She could walk down … Tune into the audio program to hear the rest of the article. One of the reasons we share stories is to show how things can be done. Stories are used to inspire, to initiate deeper thought, to shine a light on things. Today's story of a woman's life who lived decades earlier, shines a light on moral fiber, on the extraordinary, on a person who created good in the world on purpose, who forsook her own limelight living for the more understated. You may be thinking, “Sure, If I had millions of dollars I could do good too.” But I have to ask…would you, maybe you would? But now, right now we still have a responsibility to do good. We always have something to work with. We can always do good in our communities - This story is just a reminder to check in with yourself - are you caught in “he who has the most toys wins” mindset? Are you stuck in what's in it for me? Is looking good and being in the limelight more important than doing good? As Elizabeth Noyce said, we can all just hope to make a little difference in our own communities. Are you creating peace, support for community and neighbors, hope and positive energy? Are you, if you are able, creating abundance for others in positive ways, or are you caught up in the fear, violence, the frantic stretch for control that permeates the neighborhoods and mindsets across the country?  Might I suggest that for a living, in our own individual ways, that we intentionally strive to make a positive difference. Choose light, choose love, choose growth, choose goodness. Choose sharing.  In order to create a greater more positive connection, I've created the 21 Life Connection Challenges - Group Style. Do you have a group you're involved in that wants a fun way to connect and create good in their lives and in the world?   Thanks for being here today. Live Big! Live Intentional. Live Well.

Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, discusses wide-ranging topics from her perch covering women in the workplace and at home since 1970. You’ll hear: What we can learn from the suffragettes When the right time is to have a baby Why you need to have end of life conversations with your parents now The Conversation Project Starter Kit: https://theconversationproject.org/get-started   Sign up for the Advice to My Younger Me monthly newsletter: www.tomyyounger.me Sara can be reached on Twitter and LinkedIn.  Leave a review:  https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1101880566?mt=2&ls=1

Happy birthday to you, haaaaaappy birthday to 100 years of suffrage! Get your party hats on and your earbuds in place, because we have quite the celebration for your ears on this fine Wednesday. In honor of 100 years of suffrage (translation: the passing of the 19th amendment affording women the right to vote), we brought on two very special guests - the hosts of She Votes! Podcast, award-winning ABC News journalist, Lynn Sherr and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Ellen Goodman - to walk us through the history of the women’s vote. We get right to it and give you the 411 on all-things women x voting. Important background for you, me, and everyone else, you won’t want to miss this tea-laden episode. P.S. for listeners, we’re offering an exclusive offer with our partner Social Goods. Go to https://www.social-goods.com/ and use the code GIRLANDTHEGOV15 at checkout to receive 15 percent off your purchase. One code use per customer. Links:https://www.shevotespodcast.com/https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

Co-Dean Kim Mutcherson sits down with Professor of Law, Ellen Goodman to talk about the role of media in our democracy, broadcasting regulations, and the "digital divide". Learn more about Professor Goodman. Read Professor Goodman's article on the Dangers of Misinformation. The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Series Producer and Editor: Kate Bianco Series Creator: Emily Brennan --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

Ellen Goodman, director of the PSUSD Foundation, talked with iHub Radio's Jimmy Francisco about an exciting project that will be the flagship of fundraising efforts for the 2020-21 school year to supports arts programs. Students involved in the Musical Theatre University operated by the district, including students from all districts in the Coachella Valley will be involved in a weekly television broadcast to be seen on KESQ Newschannel 3. It's called Front Row Center and will air through December. Goodman talks about the importance of supporting these programs so that arts do not disappear from the landscape of elementary and secondary school offerings.  

Welcome to the Becoming a Sage podcast, hosted by Dr. Jann. This week’s episode features Dr. Jann’s conversation with Ellen Goodman. NOTE: Please understand there are a few spots where the audio is not the best quality. For this, I apologize. But I was so honored to be able to interview Ellen Goodman so I want to share it with you. ... Read More

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions.  You can watch the full video of YelloPain's "My Vote Don't Count" here. 

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Ellen Goodman about She Votes!, the new podcast she's produced with Lynn Sherr of ABC News, exploring the women's suffrage movement and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter .

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Alan Alda. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. 

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. 

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Christine Baranski. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. On August 26th, the Centennial of the 19th Amendment, please join us at the 92nd Street Y for a teach-in on women’s suffrage with Ellen and Lynn! Get your ticket: https://www.92y.org/event/lynn-sherr-and-ellen-goodman

The two celebrated journalists explore the turbulent story, often forgotten, of women’s struggle to have the right to vote and what it means to us today. Support the show: https://www.aldacommunicationtraining.com/podcasts/

Topics Discussed:DNC ConventionUnited States Postal ServiceCovid-19 and Healthcare Workers100th Anniversary of Women's SuffrageOutside of PoliticsMany thanks to Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr of the She Votes podcast and Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas for sharing their wisdom and expertise with us.Thank you for being a part of our community! We couldn't do what we do without you. To become a tangible supporter of the show, please visit our Patreon page, purchase a copy of our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), or share the word about our work in your own circles. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for daily news briefs, GIF news threads, and our real time reactions to breaking news.Please visit our website for full show notes and episode resources. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Christine Baranski and Collin Howard. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. Join The United State of Women for their When All Women Vote Week of Action! Take the pledge at bit.ly/allwomenvote

This episode examines the arrest, trial, and conviction of suffragist Susan B. Anthony for the crime of "voting while female." Rather than sitting on her heels, Anthony launched a campaign to raise awareness about voting rights for women that would set the stage for the next 50 years of work through the passage of the 19th Amendment.You might be familiar with parts of this story, but you've never heard it quite like this — Anthony is voiced by actress Christine Braranski in this episode. She Votes! is hosted by Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and founder of The Conversation Project, and Lynn Sherr, a longtime correspondent for ABC News and author of "Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words."The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment is coming up at the end of August and we're planning an episode of Democracy Works on a century women's voting on August 24.You can find more episodes of She Votes at shevotespodcast.com or in any podcast app. Thank you to the Wonder Media Network for sharing this episode with us.

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Denise Delucia and Emily Welch at Women’s Rights National Historical Park, and to Christine Alexander and the students at Innovation Tech High School. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. 

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She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Soren Kisiel. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. 

She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by Wonder Media Network. Follow us on Twitter at @wmnmedia and on Instagram at @wmn.media.To learn more about the suffrage movement and our continuing battle for the ballot, check out shevotespodcast.com Special thanks to Christine Baranski, Soren Kisiel, Sean Petell and Conrad Foley. Music by APM and Blue Dot Sessions. 

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: July 8, 2020 Theme: Microsoft Outlook Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 31 minute 10th and final episode of the Windows from the Keyboard series, Gerry discusses Microsoft Outlook. He demonstrates some changes to the View settings to make the display less cluttered for keyboard users. He examines the different Outlook views, mail, Calendar, and contacts. He comments on navigation on the folder list and message list. He demonstrates attaching a file to an email and saving a file attached to an email. He notes some very important shortcut keys for JAWS users for reading message headers. He concludes with a quick look at the Calendar and Contact forms. You may find much of the information presented in these 10 episodes in written form as a series of weekly blog posts under the category, Windows from the Keyboard Tips on the GTT Program blog site.   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: July 1, 2020 Theme: Microsoft Backstage View and Save As Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 24 minute 9th episode of the Windows from the Keyboard series, Gerry discusses Microsoft Backstage view and the standard Windows Save As Dialogue. He explains how to navigate the Backstage view categories and their associated controls. He also comments on differences between the standard Windows Open and Save As dialogues compared to their equivalents in the Backstage View and explains the standard Save As dialogue controls. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: June 24, 2020 Theme: Microsoft Ribbons Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 19 minute 8th episode of the Windows from the Keyboard series, Gerry discusses Microsoft ribbons. He explains how to navigate the ribbons and execute ribbon commands. He also shows how to use the Quick Access Tool Bar, and how to search for ribbon commands and get help using the Tell Me What You Want To Do search tool. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: June 17, 2020 Theme: Internet Browsing Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 30 minute 7th episode of the Windows from the Keyboard series, Gerry discusses Internet browsing including basic navigation and tab browsing. He covers these topics using the Freedom Scientific Surfs Up web site which he suggests contains an excellent set of self-paced lessons to learn how to browse and use the Internet. Gerry also shows how to copy the address of a web site to another program such as email or MS Word. He then shows how to download a file from the Internet by downloading the installation file for the NVDA screen reader from NV Access. He concludes the episode by showing how to configure the default browser ap using the Default Apps portion of the Windows System Settings. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Here is an older episode not previously posted.   Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: February 20, 2020 Theme: GTT Northern Ontario, Amazon Speakers, Presenter: Albert Ruel AlbertRuel@Gmail.com Here's an older recording just found for your enjoyment.  List of Amazon Echo speakers: Amazon Echo Speaker Echo Studio, with high-fidelity Echo Dot Amazon Tap, with battery Echo Look, with screen and camera Echo Show Echo Spot Echo Plus, a hub for setting up compatible devices The features of the device include: voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, and playing audiobooks, in addition to providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices, acting as a home automation  hub. Setting up Alexa, use the Amazon Alexa App.  Alexa apps to download, Amazon Alexa App and Alexa Skills.  Here's how to set up your brand-new Amazon Echo. Step 1: Download the Alexa App. Step 2: Plug in the Echo. Step 3: Connect the Echo to Wi-Fi via the app. Step 4: Start talking to Alexa. Step 5: Start using your Echo. Optional Step 6: Connect smart home devices or an external speaker. Setting up Alexa Skills: To enable Alexa skills in the Alexa app: From the menu, select Skills & Games. Find a skill you want to use, and then select it to open the skill detail page. Select Enable Skill, or ask Alexa to open the skill. Tip: Refer to the skill's detail page for examples of things to say and to learn more. Establishing Alexa Routines: How to set up Routines in the Alexa app Launch the Alexa app on your phone or tablet. Tap the menu icon in the top left corner of the screen. Tap Routines. Tap the + icon in the top right corner of the screen. ... Select When this happens. Choose Voice. Type in your desired trigger phrase. Hit Save. Attaching email accounts for calendar, contacts and email messages: Setting up your email account in the Alexa app. Open the Alexa app. Tap the Menu in the top left corner and select Settings. Select Email and Calendar. Tap the + button. Select your email provider. ... Log in to your email account. To Learn more about Alexa: Listen to the Dot to Dot podcast, a series of 5 minute podcasts showing you how to access various skills, features and activities with your Echo Speaker.  The latest one was posted on February 10 and is numbered 1107.  Robin can be reached at thedottodotpodcast@gmail.com.  Here are a few I thought might be of interest.  Help me get started with Skills: Built-in Kindle Book Reading Feature: Reading Kindle Books Revisited: An article that could help you get more out of your Echo Speaker: 6 essential Amazon Echo tips you'll use daily Connect your Echo to your smart home devices Set an alarm from home or while on the go Listen to music, audiobooks and podcasts Play games with your friends or kids Ask for measurement conversions Find movies playing in theaters near you For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: GTT Vancouver June 6, 2020 Theme: Passwords, Security and iOS Ethernet Connection Presenter: Monty Lilburn monty@bc.cx This was the final meeting for the Winter/Spring session with the GTT Vancouver group taking the months of July and August off.  Next meeting will be in September, and because the first Saturday in September will be on the Labour Day long weekend the meeting will be bumped to the second Saturday, September 12, 2020.  In this episode Monty talks about passwords, authentication and everything that goes along with it.  Six topics were outlined and discussed: 1; Origin of passwords, Monty started with a brief history of password usage, as well as the use of “shibboleths” to identify those who belong, or don't belong to a group, community, culture or class of people.  These have often been used in wartime.  2; Identification and authentication, is when someone shows their user name to identify themselves and a means of proving they are who they said they are.  3; Multi factor authentication, for which there are 3 types, A) the knowledge factor, something you know like a PIN, a secret handshake or a password. Monty went into detail on password strength, which relates to length, complexity and unpredictability, and that humans aren't good at randomness and tend to use repetitiveness, predictable patterns and dates. For example, the most often used password is 1 through 6 which is used 23,000,000 times in a British Cyber Security study. Other popular ones were 1 through 9, the letters Qwerty, the word password and the number 1 7 times.  B) Something you have, or possessions, like a key to a lock, a smart phone or a token generator that generates a random number. C) is something you are, like a fingerprint, retina scan or a body image, relating to biometrics. Two additional factors have since been introduced, location and time.  Banks will track time and location if a transaction happens in Vancouver at 10AM, and again in Frankfort Germany 5 minutes later on the same account. 4; Two-step verification, which introduces security questions or something you have like a cell phone. Sym jacking/porting are security risks that make this less foolproof. 5; Password managers, are databases that store passwords, credit card numbers, PIN's and other items that secure your information and that need only one password in order to get in. Pros are that you only have one password to remember, they can generate strong random passwords and can store other related info. Cons, not all browsers support their use, all your eggs are in one basket and if you forget that one password you've lost all your accounts. One other Con is that it gives thieves one location to target. Monty then discussed the Apple Keychain as a password manager, as well as others like One Password, Last Pass. and Password Safe. The latter one is free, open-source and has been around a long time so has a good proven track record. Android smart devices don't have a Keychain like Apple does, however do use a similar system called Google Smart Lock. Monty then worked through the prediction that passwords will be dead in 50 years or so, and that they are inherently crackable given enough time and powerful enough computers. Biometrics are a longer lasting way of authenticating users. Monty took several questions on the material presented so far. 6; Password viability, which relates simply to biometrics, length, strength and randomness.  Bonus Information: In the next section Monty outlined how he managed to connect his iPhone to a network cable in order to avoid the flakiness of Wi-Fi for conference calls like the Zoom call being recorded today. He was connected to a Qwerty keyboard, Blue Yeti microphone and an Ethernet cable through a Lightening to USB Camera adaptor. The $49 adaptor has a Lightening port and a USB 3 port to which Monty connected a 4-port USB hub that allowed him to connect all the above devices to his iPhone. The hub is powered as the iPhone hasn't the ability to power that many devices. For more information, please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                      1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net    

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: May 27, 2020 Theme: Windows File Explorer Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 32 minute 5th episode of the Windows From the Keyboard series, Gerry provides a short story describing a paper file system as an analogy of managing folders an files on the computer. He then suggests File Explorer app View settings and folder options that are useful for keyboard users. Gerry then describes basic File Explorer tasks including: folder navigation, first letter navigation, selecting contiguous and non-contiguous files, copying/pasting files, creating subfolders, deleting folders/files, and renaming folders/files. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: June 3, 2020 Theme: Windows Recycle Bin and Using External Media Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 20 minute 6th episode of the Windows from the Keyboard series, Gerry discusses how to configure the Windows Recycle Bin to make it easier to use with the keyboard. He also explains how to restore a file from the Recycle Bin that may have been deleted accidentally. In addition to the Recycle Bin, Gerry discusses using external media with an explanation of how to configure the Windows AutoPlay feature and how to safely remove external media from the computer. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: May 13, 2020 Theme: Task Bar Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this third episode of Using Windows From the Keyboard, Gerry, without touching the mouse, shows how to navigate the Windows Task Bar, how to use Jump Lists, and how to pin icons to the Task Bar. He also illustrates useful keyboard shortcuts such as Windows Key plus number row keys to jump to specific Task Bar icons and Windows Key plus ALT Plus number row keys to open the Jump List for specific Task Bar icons. The podcast concludes with a description of the Windows Run dialogue. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: May 20, 2020 Theme: Navigating and Selecting Text in Word and Outlook Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this 4th episode of the Windows From the Keyboard series, Gerry demonstrates how to navigate text using the keyboard in Word and Outlook emails although many of the keystrokes apply to other Windows apps. In addition to navigating, Gerry discusses how to combine the Shift key with the navigation keys to select the text as you navigate. At the end of the episode Gerry comments on the Shift+F3 keystroke to change the case of selected text. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: May 13, 2020 Theme: CELA Library Update Presenters: Rina Hadziev, Executive Director, assisted by her library service team. Rina.hadziev@celalibrary.ca In this regular monthly CCB-GTT National Zoom session guest, Rina Hadziev, provides a brief overview of her background and interests. Rina then gives a talk on the status of the CELA web site and services as of May 13, 2020. Rina explains that the CELA platform will continue to be updated with missing features from the old system such as personal search preferences. She also mentions exciting new functionality that will come soon resulting from the Marrakesh Treaty such as integration of NLS books from the United States into the CELA collection. Also, Rina informed us of another CELA project that will provide the ability to search and obtain books from within Voice Dream, Dolphin EasyReader, and Humanware devices eliminating the need to search for books using a computer or smartphone browser. The podcast comprises a 24 minute presentation by Rina followed by 42 minutes of Q&A. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) Show Notes: May 8, 2020 Theme: Typio Accessible Typing Tutor Presenter: Steve Barclay Steve@canasstech.com In this CCB GTT Zoom open chat session, Steve Barclay demonstrated the Typio Accessible Typing Tutor software sold for $135 by Steve's company, Canadian Assistive Technology. Steve began by giving information about Accessibyte, the company that makes Typio. He commented about other software for visually impaired people Accessibyte produces such as Arcade (games pack), Card (flash card system), and Power Pack which includes a notepad, calculator, talking dictionary, To Do List and more. These apps are designed by teachers of the visually impaired for use by visually impaired students. The apps run on Windows computers and are also available to use online for an annual subscription of $100. As an offering during Covid-19 sheltering, the online versions of all their apps are available free of charge until the end of June 2020. The advantage of the online versions is they can be used from any type of computer or device with Internet access. Steve demonstrated the Windows 10 version of Typio. It is self-voicing, so no screen reader is needed. It can be  configured with different background/foreground colors and fonts for ease of use by low vision learners. For blind students, there are choices for voices and rate of speech. It teaches all the keys of a Windows computer including the numpad with self-paced lessons and skill building quizzes and progress reports. The demo was offered as a response to GTT participant's who are facing gradual vision loss and need to learn touch typing to transition from sighted computer use to using only the keyboard to operate their computer. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB-GTT Backgrounder: GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  Show Notes: May 6, 2020 Theme: Desktop Shortcuts Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this second episode of Using Windows From the Keyboard, Gerry, without touching the mouse,  shows how to create desktop shortcuts to a web site, to the documents folder, and to the Microsoft Word app. Two methods are demonstrated: the desktop shortcut creation wizard and how to copy start menu shortcuts to the desktop. Also demonstrated is how to change the shortcut name, assign a hotkey, and specify the target app to run in a maximized window. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: April 29, 2020 Presenter: Gerry Chevalier Gtt.edmonton@gmail.com In this first episode of Using Windows From the Keyboard, Gerry introduces basic concepts of using Windows without a mouse emphasizing the most important keyboard keys to use instead of the mouse. He also describes the main working areas of Windows: the Desktop, Start Menu, Task Bar, and System Tray. He concludes with examples of the importance of using the Applications key. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  Show Notes: April 8, 2020 Theme: Accesibuild Indoor Navigation App Presenters: Jeff Godfrey, app developer,  can be reach through Accesibuild web site. Brian Bibeault, beta tester GTT.Northbay@gmail.com In this regular CCB-GTT national conference call, the presenters demonstrate this new iOS and soon to be Android free indoor navigation app. The app helps anyone including blind and low vision people find points of interest in a building based on a digitized 3D map created by the app developer that is downloaded to the user's smartphone. The building owner pays for the map development while the app is free for the user. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators: Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  Show Notes: 13 GTT New Westminster Meeting Show Notes, JAWS and NVDA OCR, November 28, 2018 Presenters: Matthew Alvernaz, matalvernaz@me.com and Albert Ruel, Albert.GTT@CCBNational.net This is an older recording from November 2018 that we thought could still assist those who are struggling to access PDF and other graphical images from their PCs.  Matthew Alvernaz and Albert Ruel demonstrated the use of the JAWS Layered Keystrokes to scan and read printed documents, convert PDF files to text, and how to access some graphics on the computer screen.  These features have been available to JAWS users since version 14.  NVDA OCR features were also discussed and demonstrated by Matthew.  NVDA may work better at this task with the OCR Add-on installed in order to provide access to PDF files with the keystroke NVDA/Insert R.    NVDA Download Page: NVDA OCR Download Page: Important: if you are using NVDA 2017.3 or later on Windows 10, please consider using buit-in Windows 10 OCR. Performs optical character recognition (OCR) to extract text from an object which is inaccessible. The Tesseract OCR engine is used. To perform OCR, move to the object in question using object navigation and press NVDA+r. You can set the OCR recognition language by going to the NVDA settings panel and selecting JAWS For Windows Download Page: JAWS Layered Keystrokes for OCR: Layered keystrokes are keystrokes that require you to first press and release INSERT+SPACEBAR, and then press a different key to perform a function in JAWS. Layered keystrokes are easy to use and remember, and they do not interfere with native keystrokes within applications. Kurzweil Scan and Read for PDF Conversion: Kurzweil 1000 combines traditional reading machine technologies such as scanning, image processing, and text-to-speech with communication and productivity tools. Openbook Scan and Read for PDF Conversion: OpenBook converts printed documents or graphic-based text into an electronic text format on your PC, using high-quality speech and the latest optical character recognition (OCR) technology. OpenBook is innovative software designed to enhance success for people who are blind or have low vision who need access to printed and electronic materials. OpenBook and the PEARL document camera create a complete scanning and reading system for work, home, and school. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  Show Notes: November 27, 2019 Theme: Library and Reading Apps for iOS Presenters: Ryan Fleury, Ryan@CanAssTech.com and Albert Ruel, Albert.GTT@CCBNational.net Apps Demonstrated and Discussed: Voice Dream Reader/Writer Download from the AppStore. 4 Apps in This Bundle Voice Dream Reader: demonstrated how to download audiobooks from Dropbox, the Files App and CELA Library.  Voice Dream Writer: demonstrated how to create documents and save them to VDR and how to use it for following an agenda during meetings. Voice Dream Scanner: not demonstrated, however mentioned in terms of scanning on the fly or downloading from previously scanned documents. Voice Pack: US English Safari Browser, CELA Search and Favourites: demonstrated how to search for and download audiobooks to iOS devices, and how to set the CELA Library to the Favourites list. CELA Library, Daisy Zipped and Direct To Player: demonstrated how to search for and send audiobooks to the Direct To Player bookshelf. Dolphin EasyReader, CELA Library Direct To Player Download from the AppStore: demonstrated how to download Direct To Player audiobooks to this app from the CELA Library website. Reading app for Dyslexia & VI by Dolphin Computer Access Ltd Audible.ca/com: demonstrated how to use the app to listen to purchased audiobooks from the user's Library. Google Play Books download from the AppStore: demonstrated how to use the app to listen to purchased audiobooks from the user's Library. Other Audiobook Listening Apps Mentioned: Amazon Speakers Google Speakers Overdrive Cloud Library Hoopla Libby Kindle iBooks/Apple Books App For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB) GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.  GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.  Show Notes: GTT Beginners National Conference Call, iOS 13 New Gestures, November 26, 2019 Elmer Thiesen kindly provided this presentation.  For questions contact him directly.  Adding The 2-Finger Swipe for Rotor Gesture The following are instructions for adding the 2-finger swipe right/left to turn the Rotor in iOS 13X. Scroll to Settings, One finger double tap. Scroll to Accessibility, one finger double tap. Scroll to Voiceover, one finger double tap. Scroll to Commands, one finger double tap. Scroll to All Commands, one finger double tap Scroll to rotor, one finger double tap. Scroll to Next Rotor, one finger double tap. scroll to Two Finger Swipe Right, one finger double tap to add. Go back two pages by one finger double tapping the Back Button at the top left corner of the screen twice. scroll down to previous rotor. One finger double tap. Scroll to add gesture, one finger double tap. scroll to Two Finger Swipe Left, one finger double tap to add. Go back two pages by one finger double tapping the Back Button at the top left corner of the screen twice, or just close the whole Settings page, your newly added actions are now available with a two finger swipe left or right to rotate your rotor. Adding the 4-finger Swipe Up/Down Gesture to Open the Voiceover Settings Page To those interested, the following is instructions on setting up a gesture that will take you directly to the Voiceover Settings Page.  Go to settings one finger double tap. Go to accessibility, one finger double tap. go to VoiceOver, one finger double tap. scroll down to commands, one finger double tap. scroll down to all commands, one finger double tap. scroll down to voiceover, one finger double tap. Scroll to open voice settings, one finger double tap. Scroll to add gesture, one finger double tap. Scroll down to whatever gesture you wish to choose, one finger double tap. I chose a four finger swipe down. For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators/Trainers: Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 513 GTTProgram@Gmail.com Albert Ruel 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 550 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net David Green 1-877-304-0968 Ext. 509 AccessibilityTraining7@Gmail.com CCB Backgrounder: The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities. The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".  CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Some experiences are worth repeating.  Our interview with Pulitzer prize-winning author Ellen Goodman was one of our brightest moments, and we're excited to share it with you in an encore presentation.  Ellen is a co-founder and director of The Conversation Project, an organization whose mission centers around helping people to voice their wishes for care at the end of life.  They know that having discussions about death and dying can help to ensure respectful, appropriate care when serious illness becomes a reality.  It's about having those conversations in the living room, not in the hospital waiting room. In advance of National Healthcare Decisions Day 2020 coming up on April 16, we want to highlight how important it is to have conversations about your end of life wishes with the important people in your life. Check out theheartofhospice.com to get more information about advance care planning, and to subscribe to the podcast to connect you with Helen and Jerry of The Heart of Hospice every time we release a new episode.  Take care of your Self - you are The Heart of Hospice. 

Ellen Goodman has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, she was one of the first women to open up the op-ed pages to women’s voices and became, according to Media Watch, the most widely syndicated progressive columnist in the country. Ellen’s current focus is The Conversation Project, a public health campaign and a movement that works to change the way people talk about, and prepare for their end-of-life care. Find out more at TheConversationProject.org. Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

There's a brand new year in front of us - 12 months full of possibilities!  It can be healthy to review your 2019 events. We are amazed at our new connections - Frank Ostaseski, Jon Prescott, Ellen Goodman, Phil Alvarez.  Helen met Barbara Karnes in person! Looking at the year ahead provides opportunities to make changes and improvements. Self care should be a top priority - make it healthy, find an accountability partner, and create those habits that work best for you.  If you're a professional working in end of life care, be a mentor for someone who's new to the profession. Strengthen your team and the hospice industry by providing leadership and support for your coworkers. Nurture connections that help you to thrive, both personally and professionally.  Seek out opportunities for education - webinars, TED talks, podcasts, conferences - so many options! What are your goals for the year ahead? Make 2020 your best hospice year yet! You are The Heart of Hospice.

Twitter recently announced that it will stop paid political advertising, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asserting that interest in political messaging should be earned, not bought. Meanwhile, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would not stop hosting political ads, saying that the platform should not be responsible for policing speech online. Will Twitter’s efforts to regulate political ads work? Might Facebook’s more “hands-off” approach lead to unintended consequences for our democracy? Which approach to regulating speech might foster free expression the most? And how do policies of private institutions shape our free speech landscape, given that the First Amendment doesn’t bind Twitter or Facebook? This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Abrams v. United States, so we also consider: Are the landmark First Amendment cases, many of which were decided decades before social media existed, still relevant in a world of ever-changing digital platforms, bots, and disinformation campaigns? Digital speech experts Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University Law School and Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law join host Jeffrey Rosen. Some terms you should know for this week: Microtargetting: a marketing strategy that uses people’s data — about what they like, their demographics, and more — to segment them into small groups for content targeting on online platforms. Interoperability: the ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information. In this context, that means that if platforms like Facebook were required to share data with other developers, those developers could create new platforms and there would be more competition in the market. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

Twitter recently announced that it will stop paid political advertising, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asserting that interest in political messaging should be earned, not bought. Meanwhile, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would not stop hosting political ads, saying that the platform should not be responsible for policing speech online. Will Twitter’s efforts to regulate political ads work? Might Facebook’s more “hands-off” approach lead to unintended consequences for our democracy? Which approach to regulating speech might foster free expression the most? And how do policies of private institutions shape our free speech landscape, given that the First Amendment doesn’t bind Twitter or Facebook? This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Abrams v. United States, so we also consider: Are the landmark First Amendment cases, many of which were decided decades before social media existed, still relevant in a world of ever-changing digital platforms, bots, and disinformation campaigns? Digital speech experts Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University Law School and Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law join host Jeffrey Rosen. Some terms you should know for this week: Microtargetting: a marketing strategy that uses people’s data — about what they like, their demographics, and more — to segment them into small groups for content targeting on online platforms. Interoperability: the ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use of information. In this context, that means that if platforms like Facebook were required to share data with other developers, those developers could create new platforms and there would be more competition in the market. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   Show Notes: October 9, 2019 On October 9, 2019 the GTT National Conference Call discussed the above topic with the help of the below presenters, which was followed by a number of spirited questions from the floor.  The presenters were asked to talk about 3 of the things they like and don't like about the version being used on that date, namely iOS 13.1.2.  Since then additional updates have been released so depending on the date you read these Summary Notes your experience may be different.    To learn more about iOS 13 visit this Apple Website:   To access many fantastic iOS 13 AppleVis Podcasts follow this link:   Presenters: Michael Feir, Elmer Thiesen, Tom Dekker, Kim Kilpatrick, Brian Bibeault and David Green.    Michael Feir: Michael expressed frustration over the hang-up bug, and suggested that in iOS 13.1.2 users can use triple click on the home button three times to turn off Voice Over, which always resolves the freeze being experienced. To set the triple tap on the Home or Side buttons to Voice Over do the following: Go to Settings, Accessibility and select the Accessibility Shortcut to launch Voice Over. Be careful not to accidently click the button five times in a row without sufficient pause or you can activate the SOS call to 911. Custom Controls Can Be used to limit or expand the haptic feedback and sounds given off by iOS 13 devices. The user can also re-define existing gestures, and define undefined gestures to functions that are difficult to manage, like the turning of the Rotor dial. The Reminders app is another area where iOS 13 has made great strides. It is far more customizable and configurable to the needs of the end user. It now boasts some project management features that make it really good to use.   Elmer Thiesen: Elmer indicated that for him the ability to customize gestures is a really big deal, and the first one he changed was the Rotor gesture to use two fingers sliding across the screen left or right to turn it in those directions. He also expressed that the Vertical Scroll Bar is a great addition to iOS 13. It allows the user to scroll pages of information far more easily and efficiently. Elmer likes the ability to establish Activities with desired features like, having a specific voice read emails with no punctuation, and another voice work on word processing apps with all punctuation turned on. These can now be customized to the user's preference. One of the bugs Elmer has struggled with is that Siri would get lost in what she was asked to access and keep repeating the same irrelevant thing over and over again until he re-set the Network Settings. Apple Support assisted in getting this sorted out.   Tom Dekker: Screen Recording is the thing Tom likes most about the upgrade to iOS 13. it never quite worked well before iOS 13, and now works very well with good quality sound. Commands and the ability to customize them is another of Tom's favourite things about iOS 13. On Screen Braille keyboard is better than ever. He can now type more quickly and with more accuracy than before. Tom thinks that a weird thing is the iPhone User Guide downloaded to the iOS Books app. It only reads the first line or two of each paragraph. It doesn't track anything correctly. Older Guides work well, but not this one.   Kim Kilpatrick: Kim agreed that the iOS 13 User Guide doesn't work well. As for the hang-up bug, her experience seems to be that it only happens when she uses the microphone button on the wired earbuds. She also indicated that this bug didn't come up during the beta testing phase, which she has been on since the beginning. Kim expressed that a great feature of iOS 13 is that Accessibility is not buried in General and that it has its own spot in Settings. Kim has heard that Low Vision users are liking the Dark Mode offered in iOS 13. She indicated that there are some good things added to Braille support that allows Voice Over to have more things read back to the user as they type, however a bug seems to have been introduced that creates a disconnect when back spacing to delete errors. Kim also agrees that Braille Screen Input has improved dramatically. Voice Control is another item Kim appreciates about iOS 13. Although it isn't a Voice Over specific feature, it never-the-less works well with it, and it will really help those with limited hand function to access even more functions of their iOS devices. Voice Over users must use earbuds when accessing Voice Controls otherwise the Voice Over speech will interfere. The strong point about using Voice Control when dictating in an edit field is that Voice Over will read back what is being dictated periodically. It functions more like Dragon Naturally Speaking in that regard. this should only be used in quiet places otherwise it makes many errors. Kim told the group that in Activities you can also adjust punctuation for different apps and activities according to your personal preferences, the voice, rate and punctuation can all be set for different apps and tasks.   David Green: David told the assembled that when inserting passwords and code numbers for voicemail iOS 13 seems to be far faster in echoing the touch screen presses, which leads to increased accuracy in typing those characters. This is especially noticeable in voicemail entry codes. One bug David noticed is in the Native Mail app. When he tries to move from one account to another focus seems to go into Edit Mode instead of activating the new account. It will also do this in the Messages app sometimes.   David found that after the upgrade to iOS 13 the speaking voice was changed from his favourite American voice to a British one. The only way to fix this was to set the Location to America in order to get those voices back. Slide to Type is one feature that David will have to practice a lot before it will become comfortable, if it ever does. Many of the new features and functions of iOS 13 are not of interest to David, so he will likely give them a pass.   Brian Bibeault: Brian wasn't going to upgrade yet, however having forgotten to shut off his phone one evening he woke up to an upgraded iPhone. Since this event he has worked at trying to learn its new features and is getting comfortable with them. The first day was a nightmare, but he recommended that anyone intending to make the move go to AppleVis and listen to the many Thomas Domville podcasts about iOS 13. He provides a great set of tutorials and guides to the important features and upgrades. One glitch Brian found is when using the Bluetooth Keyboard, the focus jumps all over the place unexpectedly. Brian suggested that if one is going to use Voice Control, turn it off after using it, otherwise it'll drive you nuts if you answer a phone call with it still turned on. It'll keep repeating text not relevant to the conversation. He found that his recent move to Bell Fib Cablevision has improved since iOS 13, whereas the app was not accessible with iOS 12.4.   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: September 25, 2019 How to use Reader View on the Mac, PC, iOS and Android Browsers   What is Reader/Simplified View, and why does anyone want to explore it?  Here's an article that might explain it, followed by instructions on how to activate it in your favourite, or soon to be favourite browser.    Reader View First posted on July 12, 2018 by Rob Tomlinson “Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's dictum that “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” can be re-deployed most helpfully when discussing Reader View, a topic that touches on web page design and browser behaviour.”…   PC Browsers:   Simplified View for Google Chrome on the PC: Google Chrome Download Page; type this into a new tab in Google Chrome chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode press enter. A Chrome settings page comes up that you can navigate using headings. Press the letter H until you get to reading mode. There is a combo box that shows that reader mode is disabled. Press enter to go into forms mode if using Jaws. Press the down arrow to get to enabled and press enter. Go to the bottom of the page with control end and there is a restart chrome button, and Press enter. Now visit a page that has news stories such as this article from the Victoria Times Colonist, You can try down arrowing through the page and see all the links, controls and advertisements on the page. Press the Alt Key to bring up a menu and either up or down arrow to “Toggle distilled page contents” and press enter. you will hear your screen reader say, “Simplified View”. Now what you have is the news article in its entirety without the ads and other controls. To get the page back to normal view, repeat step 11 and press Enter. Press the Escape Key to close the menu.   Reader View for Firefox on the PC: Reader View is a Firefox feature that strips away clutter like buttons, ads and background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability. Mozilla Firefox Download Page; Open Firefox and enter the address of the page you want to visit, let's use the Victoria Times Colonist article again. Examine the page with down and up arrow keys to see that it is cluttered with links, controls and advertisements. Press the f9 key to enable reader view. If nothing happens then reader view is not available for the current page. If reader view is available, the page loads and is clutter free.   Mac Browsers:   Reader View for Safari on the Mac: Safari Browser for the Mac Download Page; To display an article in Reader on the Mac, do the following: Click the Safari icon on the Dock or Launchpad. Type in the URL for the website you want to visit. For example, you might visit The New Yorker at www.newyorker.com. Click the article you want to read. You see the article with various advertisements, banners, photos, links, and so on. Click the Reader button, or press Command+Shift+R. If the article runs over several pages, Reader displays it as one continuous page so you need only scroll down, not click from one page to the next. If you need to adjust the size of the text, click the type buttons (the two A's) in the upper-left corner. To exit Reader, click the Reader button, or press the Esc key to exit Reader and return to the normal Safari view of the article. Click the Back button to return to the original site. In both Reader and normal Safari view, press ⌘+= or ⌘+– to zoom in or out on the text. If you have a Magic Mouse or Trackpad or a MacBook that recognizes multi-touch gestures, you can also pinch in or out to zoom.   iOS 12.4 Browsers:   Sadly, we could find nothing to say there is a Reader or Simplified View for the Google Chrome Browser for iOS.    Reader View for Safari Browser on iOS: How to enable Reader View in Safari in iOS 12.4: Launch Safarifrom your Home screen. Navigate to the website you'd like to read. Tap the Reader button on the left of the address bar. It looks like a series of stacked lines. If the Reader button doesn't appear it means the page isn't able to be simplified.   Reader View for Mozilla Firefox Browser in iOS 12.4: Mozilla Firefox Download Page on the App Store for iPad and iPhone; How to enable Reader View in Firefox on iOS: Launch Firefox from your Home screen. Navigate to the website you'd like to read. Tap the Reader button on the right of the address bar. It looks like a series of stacked lines. Double Tap it again to turn it off when you want access to more of the page. If the Reader button doesn't appear it means the page isn't able to be simplified.   Reader View for Microsoft Edge in iOS 12.4: Microsoft Edge Download for iPad and iPhone; How to enable Reader View in Microsoft Edge on iOS: Launch Edge from your Home screen. Navigate to the website you'd like to read. Tap the Reader Mode button on the right of the address bar. It looks like a book that is open. Double Tap the Done button to turn it off when you want access to more of the page. If the Reader Mode button doesn't appear it means the page isn't able to be simplified.   Android Browsers: Simplified View for Google Chrome on Android: Google Chrome Browser Download from the Google Play Store; How to Enable Reader Mode in Chrome for Android? Open Chromeon your Android smartphone or tablet and type chrome://flags in the address/search bar and hit enter. The Chrome Flags page will open up. Hit the three dot button inthe top right corner and tap “Find in page “. Once enabled, you will see a “Make page mobile-friendly” button at the end of the webpage.   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: September 11, 2019 On September 11, 2019 Gerry Chevalier gave a presentation to the GTT National Conference Call Meeting demonstrating how to search for and download from the new website launched earlier this year by The Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA). Gerry used Windows 10 for this demonstration, and the web browser used was Google Chrome. The site also works well with Firefox and Internet Explorer.  The screen reader used for this demonstration was JAWS for Windows, and both Narrator and NVDA are also compatible with the CELA Library website.   What is CELA: The CELA accessible library service for print disabled Canadians provides many services including: downloadable recorded DAISY books, downloadable DAISY eBooks, downloadable Bookshare DAISY eBooks, DAISY books on CD mailed to your home, braille books mailed to your home, print-brailled books for kids, over 150 downloadable DAISY e-text magazines, recorded DAISY magazines by download or mail, and over 40 daily newspapers that can be read online. In early 2019 CELA launched a new accessible website that brings together their collection and that of Bookshare searchable from one place. Many will recognize these CELA services to be the same as those previously provided by the CNIB Library. CELA took over the CNIB Library in 2014 and now serves all print-disabled Canadians not just those who are blind or vision impaired.   The Players: In addition to playing CD books the Victor Reader Stratus can also receive direct to player DAISY books over the Internet. The user chooses their book by logging into CELA online and once a book is chosen it is sent directly to the player. For non-computer users, CELA customer service or your local Librarian can set up a reader profile for you and then the CELA computer will choose your books and send them directly to the player or on CD mailed to your home. It is also suggested some may prefer the pocket sized Victor Reader Stream which can accept the direct to player books and perform other online functions Such as getting Bookshare books and listening to podcasts and radio stations. CELA Direct to Player audio books can also be played on your iPhone or Android phone using the free Dolphin EasyReader app. CELA audio books can also be downloaded through Dropbox to iPhones and played using the Voice Dream Reader app.   How much does it cost: There is no fee for CELA service or Bookshare service.     How do I find CELA: Visit the CELA web site for information on all their services or call their customer service at 1-855-655-2273.   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: August 28, 2019   Microsoft Soundscape A map delivered in 3D sound by Microsoft Corporation   Microsoft Soundscape was recently released in Canada in both official languages, Canadian French and English.  You can download Soundscape free for iOS from the App Store here.    Presenting over the Zoom Conference to the GTT New Westminster group were Amos Miller, the Product Manager for Microsoft Soundscape Research in Redmond WA, and Jarnail Chudge, a technology designer and user experience expert on the team.   Microsoft Soundscape uses 3D audio technology to enhance your awareness of what is around you, and thereby help you get around and explore your surroundings.     Soundscape will place audio cues and labels in 3D space such that they sound like they are coming from the direction of the points of interest, parks, roads and other features in your surroundings.   You will need a pair of stereo headsets that you feel comfortable wearing outdoors. For example, bone conduction headsets, Apple AirPods and in-ear open headphones have proven to work well.   Soundscape is designed to live in the background and provide you with effortless ambient awareness. Therefore, feel free to use it in conjunction with other apps such as podcasts, audio books, email and even GPS navigation.   Key features:   - As you walk, Soundscape will automatically call out the key points of interest, roads and intersections that you pass. These can be adjusted and turned on and off.   - An audio beacon can be placed on a point of interest, and you will hear it as you move around. You can place an audio beacon on a point of interest that you would like to track such as your destination, a point to return to or a landmark you are familiar with.   - “My Location” describes your current location and the direction you are facing.   - "Nearby Markers" describes nearby places you have marked.   - “Around Me” describes nearby points of interest in each of the four cardinal directions, helping with orientation. Try this out when getting off a bus or leaving a train station.   - “Ahead of Me” describes points of interest in front of you, for example when walking down the street.   - The expandable Callout History section lets you review callouts you have heard, repeat callouts, hear more information about them, and more.   We hope you enjoy the experience. We believe that this kind of technology offers a new way to relate to the environment around you and we can't wait to hear what you make of it.   If at any time you have any questions about Soundscape, please refer to the Help & Tutorials section available on the main menu or if you require further help then you can contact the Disability Answer Desk on 1-800-936-5900 which is a free of charge service.   This work started out in 2010/2011 when Amos was still in the UK. He was involved with the local guide dog organization there, and working with them to try and figure out how technology can integrate into our own independence and mobility when we're out and about, but in a way that enhances that experience. Some people from Microsoft started working with mobility instructors, and guide dog and cane users. We explored a range of ideas long before we figured out how to solve the problem. We landed on this notion of how important it is to enhance the awareness, but not tell the person what to do in that space. A lot of what orientation and mobility trainers will do with us is to work on a specific route, but especially how to perceive the environment, how we read the cues that the environment is giving us from a sound perspective, echo location, traffic noise, direction of the wind, the tactile feeling of the ground: all of the signals we can get from the environment in order to orient, and make good navigational decisions. The work that we did with Guide Dogs in the early days of Soundscape was really to see how we can build on that. The idea of sound playing a big role in the perception of the space, was really how this idea evolved. Soundscape as an ap, is the first incarnation of that idea.   The ap is free, and available from the Ap Store. It does rely on map data, and so it does need to be able to access that data. For the most part, it will download the necessary data from the environment that you're in, and from that point forward it's not using data. So it's not constantly drawing on your data plan, but it does require one. We've tried to optimize it so that the data usage is minimal, and in certain situations, it will also work in areas where there is no data.   Bose frames are a very good way to get the stereo effect, as are Bone conducting headphones. EarPods or standard headphones will work, but they will block your ears to ambient sound. Putting it in one ear to keep the other ear free won't be effective because you won't get the signature 3D effect. Amos said that he personally likes EarPods because of their sound quality, and it's possible to insert them lightly into the ear and still have ambient sound. Some sports headphones are a good solution too, Plantronics for example. This type of headphone rests around the back of your neck, and clips over the ear. They sit in front of the ear canal without blocking it. They're used commonly by runners and cyclists.   Users can email soundscapefeed@microsoft.com and that comes to the Microsoft Soundscape team. There is also a feedback button in the ap itself.    For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: August 14, 2019   WayAround   The Smart Assistant for People Who are Blind Meet WayAround   WayAround is the app for your smart device that provides on-demand details about everyday things. The simple tag-and-scan approach lets you quickly and easily identify things around you. It also provides extra details, like how something works or when it expires.   The result? Doing more of the things you want, with more confidence and more independence.   Get the FREE App!   Download WayAround on the App Store Download WayAround on the Google Play Store   Canadian Distributor: Canadian Assistive Technologies Ltd:   Check out this Sample Pack of WayAround Tags:   Contact Canadian Assistive Technologies: OUR MISSION   Because Assistive Technology has been our lives for over 30 years, we understand the importance that any given device or piece of software can have in our clients' day to day lives. We strive to ensure that every client has the tools and training they need in order to empower them to be able to live the lives they want through the power of Accessibility.    1-844-795-8324   SALES@CANASSTECH.COM   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: July 10, 2019   Windows 10 Accessibility Primer   Following is a summary of the Windows10 accessibility primer Carrie Anton and Lyle Rollaman presented to GTT National Conference Call meeting attendees on July 10, 2019. Although the presentation was focused on low vision Windows access there is information that is also relevant to blind users. There are links to other resources so you can research more commands and tools. The commands provided are for Windows 10. The resource links provided take you to the Microsoft pages where you can choose the version of Windows you are using.  Also find at the bottom of this document links to three Microsoft Accessibility Learning Webinar Series episodes hosted by Microsoft staff related to low vision and blind access to Narrator and Magnification features built into Windows 10.    Windows Shortcut Keys Learning Windows Shortcut Keys is important to be Efficient and to be able to perform functions when you cannot use a mouse.   Windows Ease of Access Center This is where all Accessibility related settings can be adjusted. Scaling This is a setting that adjusts the size and clarity of most items on your screen. The default is 125% but you can also customize it to what you want. Adjusting this to higher settings does require more scrolling of windows. Icons are larger, and text is larger without the stepping pixelating that often happens with magnifying things.   Right click anywhere on the desktop Go to display settings Scaling and Layout appear in the middle of the screen.   Magnifier Magnifier allows you to enlarge the entire screen or sections of it. There are 3 viewing modes including full, lens, and docked. Magnifier's application toolbar appears in the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. It may also hover a magnifying glass on your screen. Click it and see the tools like plus, minus, zoom percentage, View, and a gear for settings. TO DO THIS PRESS THIS Turn Magnifier on Windows logo key + Plus (+)   Turn Magnifier off Windows logo key  + Esc   When Magnifier is on, zoom in or out Windows logo key  + Plus (+) or Minus (-)   Zoom in and out using the mouse scroll wheel Ctrl + Alt + mouse scroll wheel   Open Magnifier settings Windows logo key  + Ctrl + M   Pan in the direction of the arrow keys Ctrl + Alt + arrow keys   Invert colors Ctrl + Alt + I   Switch to full screen view Ctrl + Alt + F   Switch to lens view Ctrl + Alt + L   Switch to docked view Ctrl + Alt + D   Cycle through views Ctrl + Alt + M   Resize the lens with the mouse Ctrl + Alt + R   Resize the lens with the keyboard Shift + Alt + arrow keys   Quickly see the entire desktop when using full screen view Ctrl + Alt + Spacebar   More About Magnifier   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/11542/windows-use-magnifier   Mouse Enhancements As one of the hardest things to find as a visually impaired person, the Pointer's Size and Color often makes the difference in its visibility. Also, if you can find your Mouse Settings in Control panel, you can adjust more mouse shapes and effects like pointer trails.  Press WindowsKey+U to open Ease of Access centre. IN the Search box type, Mouse Then the mouse panel appears and you can choose to change the look of the mouse, how it looks when moving, and more. More on adjusting your mouse settings   Cursor Thickness In the Ease of Access Center, “Other Options” you can change the thickness of the typing cursor by using a horizontal left/right slider from a blinking vertical line to a thick blinking box. This makes finding where your cursor is much easier.   Color & High Contrast There are many ways to change color of THE screens in Windows. Magnifier's invert color Windows color filters – especially useful if someone has color blindness  Windows Themes – is a quick way to adjust all colors in every application for text, hyperlinks, buttons and active or inactive items. I find that using a Windows Theme presents the best diversity of color especially high contrast. However, the possibility of losing information that is only represented by color is there. Take for example, a web page that is not coded for accessibility may eliminate colored items if a theme is enforced. You will need to be the judge of your own experience. For working with text and email Themes work great. For someone who is always on the web and uses cues from images and color, themes won't work well. Use invert colors of Magnifier or similarly the Color & High Contrast Invert setting. Keep in mind certain colors have hard to read inversions like organize and green. Yellow's invert is blue. White is black. TO DO THIS PRESS THIS Turn your High Contrast Theme on or off press Left Alt + left Shift + Print Screen Turn your color filter on or off press Windows logo key  + Ctrl + C   Text to Speech to Read What is Magnified There is a built-in screen reader called Narrator which I'll mention later. For those of us who just want reading in MS Office documents there is a Speech feature you can activate. It reads aloud any text you select in the document. It can be activated by keyboard shortcut or a button in the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the application. This feature is available in Microsoft Office 2013, 2016 and of course Office365. Narrator Narrator is a full-blown screen reading application that does just that, it reads the screen. Again, keyboard shortcuts are handy in controlling and navigating documents. Narrator has a setting panel that allows you to customize the way narrator acts such as voice, cursor and pointer following. Narrator also lets you “highlight the cursor” which is where it is reading, a red box appears around where Narrator is reading. This is useful when I am trying to hover my mouse over text I want read. On many keyboards, the Windows logo key is located on the bottom row of keys, to the left or right of the Alt key. TO DO THIS PRESS THIS Open Narrator settings  Windows logo key  + Ctrl + N Turn Narrator On or Off Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter for Windows 10 Windows Logo Key  + Enter for Windows 7/8   More on Getting Started with Narrator There are several ways to read text using Narrator. The first and simplest way is to use the arrow keys to navigate text if you're interacting with a document in a word processor, such as Microsoft Word. If an app doesn't support text reading commands, Narrator will say “not on explorable text.” In this case, use Scan Mode to navigate and read text. While in scan mode you need to listen for Narrator saying scan on or scan off, otherwise, the letters or arrow keys you use are actually moving in your document. Move to the next or previous word TO DO THIS PRESS THIS Turn Scan Mode On or Off Caps lock + Spacebar. Read by paragraph in scan mode Up and Down arrow keys Read by character            Left and Right arrow keys To activate an item that you want to use, such as a button in an app, a link in a webpage, or a text box Press the spacebar Move to the start or end of a line of text in an app or webpage Home and End Move to the beginning or end of text Ctrl + Home and Ctrl + End Move to the next or previous word Ctrl + Left arrow and Ctrl + Right arrow Move to the next or previous line Ctrl + Up arrow and Ctrl + Down arrow   To learn more about Scan Mode. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22809/windows-10-narrator-using-scan-mode   Speech Recognition A great feature for dictating to the computer as well as in documents. The trick to anyone using speech recognition software is to recognize when mistakes are made. You can open programs, control menus, click buttons and dictate text.  First be in a quiet environment with a microphone connected to your computer.  At the start menu type Speech Recognition or just speech and it will appear in the Start Menu. More about Speech Recognition   Microsoft Accessibility Learning Webinar Series   Microsoft Accessibility Learning Webinar Series for low vision and blindness on YouTube   Accessibility Learning Webinar Series: Magnifier and Low Vision Features in Windows 10, Feb 27, 2019   Accessibility Learning Webinar Series: Narrator 101, Jan 30, 2019   Accessibility Learning Webinar Series: Narrator 101 for the May 2019 Update to Windows 10, Jul 2, 2019   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes:   Windows 10 Shortcut Keys:   JAWS Keyboard Commands:   NVDA Keyboard Commands:   Narrator Keyboard Commands:   Google Chrome Shortcut Keys:   Firefox Shortcut Keys:   General Windows, Mac, MS Office Shortcut Keys:   On June 26, 2019 Ryan Fleury and Albert Ruel presented some favourite shortcut keys to the GTT New Westminster group based on the below list.  Ryan's frequently used Windows keyboard commands: Insert W application hot keys Insert h jaws hot key info for application Windows x works like a mini start menu Windows I quickly jump to windows settings Windows r opens the run dialogue Insert spacebar h brings up jaws speech history Windows E opens windows/file explorer Windows D to go to desktop     Albert's frequently used Windows keyboard commands: Insert T, Task Bar Insert F, Font attributes in JAWS Insert B, read the pop up window Control Z, undo Insert number row 1, keyboard help toggle Control X, C and V, Cut, copy and paste Control B, U and I, bold, underline and italic Windows B, System Tray   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes:   On June 25, 2019 Albert Ruel demonstrated the use of the Rotor with Voice Over for effectively and efficiently accessing information from websites using iOS devices.  A discussion of the Reader View available in the Safari Browser was also undertaken with a view to accessing just the text of articles rather than pages of advertising, links and other navigation controls.    Additional Resources: AppleVis is the main place to find out information regarding voiceover iOS apps on all 4 of the iOS family devices.      Bluetooth Keyboard Commands are listed here:   Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard K380:   Web Browsing using the Rotor with Safari: Using both touch gestures on the iOS screen and the Logitech Bluetooth keyboard K380. Voice Over and Safari on iOS, iPod iPad and iPhone with the latest version of iOS 12. The rotor was used when web browsing to access Headings, Links, Form Fields, Edit Options, Text Selection, Characters, Words, Lines, Buttons and Tables. To turn the Rotor to the above movement units move two fingers across the screen in opposite directions, or use the thumb and forefinger to mimic the turning of a knob. To do this on a Bluetooth keyboard press both the left and up arrow buttons to turn the Rotor to the left and use the right and up arrow buttons to move it to the right.  Once a movement unit is selected, a one-finger flick up will move to the previous item and a one-finger flick down will move to the next item. To do that with a Bluetooth keyboard press the up and down arrow buttons respectively.    Reader View Button in the Safari Browser: The Reader View button is located at the very top of Safari on the left-hand side of the page and looks like a button with squiggly lines. To access it perform a four-finger single tap near the top of the screen to bring focus to the top, or hold down the Control key and press the up arrow button.  To activate and de-activate the Reader View button one-finger double tap it, or press the up and down arrow buttons together. When the Reader View button is activated it strips out most links, advertisements and other junk from a webpage.  Voice Over will announce that Reader View is available once a web page is loaded. Reader View in Safari can be activated when accessing any website where it is available, or it can be programmed to automatically activate when all web pages are accessed, or just specific websites. To access the Automatic Reader View Menu, from the Reader View button perform a one-finger swipe up or press the up arrow, then one-finger double tap or press the up and down arrow buttons to activate the Menu.  Use a one-finger swipe to the right or the right arrow button to examine the menu and one-finger double tap or press the up and down arrow buttons together to activate your desired option.  Low vision configuration is available once Reader View is activated by one-finger double tapping or pressing the up and down arrow buttons on the keyboard on the Reader Appearance Options button to the right of the Address Bar. Swipe to the right or use the right arrow button to examine the list of options and one-finger double tap or press the up and down arrow buttons together to select desired items.    General Touch Screen Gestures:   On all web pages, a one-finger swipe to the right, or pressing the Write arrow button will move focus to the next item, and a swipe to the left, or pressing the left arrow button will move to the previous item. To have Voice Over read from the top of the page perform a two-finger swipe up, or hold down the VO key and press the letter A. To have Voice Over read from the current position perform a two-finger swipe down or hold down the VO key and press the letter B.  To pause and resume Voice Over's reading of any document, email or web page perform a 2-finger single tap, or press and release the Control key. Both of the above gestures will toggle the reading functions on and off.  Access Heading Navigation by turning to it with the Rotor, or holding down the VO key on a Bluetooth keyboard and typing the letter Q. VO + the letter Q will toggle it off again.  Navigating by headings is the most important means of examining a web page, and once the desired section is found swiping to the right or pressing the right arrow buttons will move focus to the next item. Using Heading Navigation will avoid much of the junk at the top of web pages.  Headings are like the chapter markers in a book. They are organized in a hierarchical numbering system with Level 1 Headings above Level 2 and so on.  With VO + Q turned on pressing numbers 1 through 6 will move to those respective Level Headings.  Every time a Google search is conducted in Safari there should be a Level 1 Heading titled: Search Results. Turn the Rotor to Headings then use a one-finger swipe down or press the down arrow button to locate the Search Results area, and eventually each of the results listed on the page.  forefinger double tap on the iPhone screen will turn on keyboard help, this will enable you to test out key commands on the keyboard or swipes on the phone to hear descriptions of what that action will do when outside of keyboard help. To access the Status Bar at the top of the screen in any iOS device using a Bluetooth Keyboard hold down the Control key and the CapsLock key plus the letter M, then perform the same key command again to get out of the status bar.   Quick Navigation Keys: to turn quick navigation keys on/off use left and right arrow Keys at the same time. when typing into an edit field quick navigation keys are off. Having quick navigation keys On enables one to use the Rotor to access headings, Characters, Words, Lines and many other navigation elements. when the focus is on the address bar and it is clicked on you can assume that the text is selected and if using quick navigation it will turn off automatically so you can begin to type. Typing will replace the highlighted text.  The Rotor elements called Vertical Navigation and Rows will allow you to move up and down columns when in a table rather than swiping right and left to go horizontally across the screen then wrapping around to the next line or row. This is useful on bank statements as an example.    For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: May 28, 2019   GTT Beginners National Conference Call Navigating Websites Using Screen Readers with a PC   Kim Kilpatrick, Brian Bibeault and Albert Ruel demonstrated the use of Navigation Quick Keys and other strategies for effectively and efficiently accessing information from the websites we visit using the screen readers available in the Windows environment.    The pages visited were the Get Together with Technology (GTT) Blog and CELA Library pages.    Navigation Quick Keys for JAWS   NVDA command key quick reference   Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                       Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net  

Get Together with Technology (GTT) Sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)   GTT is an exciting initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind, founded in Ottawa in 2011 by Kim Kilpatrick and Ellen Goodman.  GTT aims to help people who are blind or have low vision in their exploration of low vision and blindness related access technology.  Through involvement with GTT participants can learn from and discuss assistive technology with others walking the same path of discovery.    GTT is made up of blindness related assistive technology users, and those who have an interest in using assistive technology designed to help blind and vision impaired people level the playing field.  GTT groups interact through social media, and periodically meet in-person or by teleconference to share their passions for assistive technology and to learn what others can offer from their individual perspectives.    Show Notes: June 12, 2019 Robert Felgar, CEO, Raz Mobility  attended the GTT National Conference Call to tell us all about the Lucia talking cell phone that is now available for sale to Canadians.  Lucia is an Accessible mobile phone for individuals who are visually impaired, blind, hard of hearing or seniors. Lucia is a user-friendly cell phone that allows persons who are disabled to remain independent. Advanced features such as accessible buttons in different colors and shapes, voice guide to transform the phone into a talking companion, ergonomic design, combined with long battery life, make this high-quality, Swiss-made phone the perfect mobile phone for users who are disabled. Lucia has a powerful battery and can operate for more than one week before requiring a charge (up to 7 days standby time and 10 hours of talking time). Lucia allows users who are blind to enter their own contacts and move through the contact list to hear the contact names read out loud. Low vision users benefit from extra large characters and can choose between various color schemes such as white on black or black on white display. For emergencies, the phone has a dedicated SOS button on its back. Easy to navigate menus with large and highly tactile buttons. The control buttons are different colors and shapes so that the user always presses the correct button. Speech interface guides the user while using the phone. It speaks everything that is on the screen, speaks the keys that are pressed and even prompts the user to perform certain functions. Caller ID, amount of remaining battery power, contacts, list of missed calls and text messages are read out loud by Lucia. The user can select between more than 10 different voices. Lucia is 100 percent accessible to individuals who are blind. Its features make it the perfect phone for individuals who are visually impaired, blind, hard of hearing or seniors. To assist people who are hard of hearing, the phone has a “sound boost” function that provides additional volume during phine calls with the press of a button. Lucia has premium speakers to maximize clarity and sound experience.   For more information please contact your GTT Coordinators:   Albert Ruel                   or                        Kim Kilpatrick 1-877-304-0968,550                               1-877-304-0968,513 albert.GTT@CCBNational.net                GTTProgram@Gmail.com   CCB Backgrounder:   The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments.  CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.   CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.   The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.  The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues.  For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians. As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the "Voice of the Blind™".    CCB National Office 100-20 James Street Ottawa ON  K2P 0T6 Toll Free: 1-877-304-0968 Email: info@ccbnational.net URL: www.ccbnational.net      

Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, an award-winning journalist, an author of 7 books, and the co-founder of The Conversation Project. She recently shared with The Heart of Hospice hosts her most personal story of being her mother's caregiver, and how it inspired her to create The Conversation Project. Ellen shared her story of being her mother's caregiver and decision maker, and being uncertain of her mother's wishes because they had never had THE conversation.  “We talked about everything except one thing: how she wanted to live at the end of her life.” The goal of The Conversation Project is to help people facilitate THE conversation about their end of life wishes.   Our sincerest gratitude to Ellen Goodman for taking the time to sit down with us and share her wisdom, insights, and humor. To learn more about Ellen you can visit her website, EllenGoodman.com.  To learn more about The Conversation Project and how they help people start their end of life conversations, please visit their website here. For more information and resources about hospice, caregiving, self care, and advance care planning, please visit The Heart of Hospice website.  You can also read our blog on the website, and find a fresh journal page that publishes every Sunday.

In this episode, we speak with Ellen Goodman. She’s the co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law, in Camden, New Jersey. And at the moment, she’s conducting research on Smart Cities. What’s the future of our urban lives? Should we be excited about it, or resist it? We discuss the texture of life in cities built from the Internet up, and we talk about Sidewalk Toronto, one of the hottest smart city projects at the moment.  

Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist and Abbey Henderson of Abaris Financial Group explore ways advisors can create unique plans to help ensure clients leave the legacy they want behind.

"The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end of life care."  That's the singular mission of The Conversation Project as posted on the front page of their website.   In this episode we connected with Rev. Rosemary Lloyd, the Advisor to Faith Communities for The Conversation Project.  She shares with us how TCP was started in 2010 by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Ellen Goodman, along with a host of her friends.   Learn more about the history of TCP, and also the many free resources that are available on their website including Conversation Starter Kits written in several languages.  Rev. Lloyd also encourages faith communities to get involved in the Conversation Sabbath on October 26-November 4, 2018.  To learn more about the Conversation Sabbath, just follow this link.   Please visit theheartofhospice.com for more resources about hospice, caregiving, self care, and advance care planning.  

Ellen Goodman is a true media pioneer. She started her career as a researcher for Newsweekmagazine and went on to become one of the first women to write for the publication’s op-ed pages. In 1980, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. No reporter skills, however, could uncover her mother’s voice in order to talk deeply and specifically about her desires and wishes when she was facing her end her life. Like the majority of us, Ellen struggled and questioned the decisions she was making on her mother’s behalf. “Have I made the right decisions for my mother?” she asked herself. Ellen never wanted her family or friends to feel that same burden. Ellen realized after her mother’s death how much easier it would have been if she could have heard her mother’s voice guiding her throughout all the difficult discussions. Ellen knew she had missed the opportunity to have a conversation. “The Conversation Project” was created in 2010 when Ellen and a group of colleagues, concerned members of the media, clergymen, and medical professionals came together to share stories of “good deaths” and “bad deaths.” In 2011, The Conversation Project began a partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in order to create momentum and awareness for their “Conversation” initiative. Today, “The Conversation Project” includes a team of seasoned law and media professionals along with a group of journalists who are working pro bono alongside IHI staff members to bring a wealth of expertise to the project.“I realized only after my mother’s death how much easier it would have all been if I heard her voice in my ear as these decisions had to be made.” ―Ellen Goodmanhttp://theconversationproject.org/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Green Carmichael is a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and host of the award-winning HBR IdeaCast, where she’s interviewed Stew a couple of times. So this episode turns the tables. Sarah edits HBR.org, which has won the Webby Award for Best Business Website the last two years in a row. She is a regular speaker and moderator at conferences like SXSW, the Drucker Forum, and Thinkers50. Prior to joining HBR, she was a sportswriter (her one major shortcoming is her unthinking devotion to the Boston Red Sox), taught middle school students, and worked as a researcher for Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman. Her writing has been featured in many periodicals and magazines. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. Stew and Sarah talk about the growing problem of young people working too many hours, why this is an increasing risk in contemporary business life, and some practical ways to avoid the resulting burnout. Sarah labels it “work obsession” as opposed to “workaholism” or even “work martyrdom” to take the emphasis off hours worked and focus instead on the emotional investment we are placing on work, at the cost of our humanity. What, after all, is the purpose of a human life, she plainly asks? Work matters, but it may not need to be the primary feature of our brief moment on the planet. For many, after all, this is a matter of choice, right? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we went to the children’s section of the library to read The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss. Does this 1984 book have anything to tell us about the dangers of the Cold War arms race? What is the right age to start talking to your kids about nuclear war? Why wasn’t there a Goosebumps book about nuclear winter? Tim, his sister Diana, and his 7-year old nephew Jairus answer these questions and more. Before we fly/hop away in our Utterly Sputter, we recommend checking out: -Ellen Goodman, “Dr. Seuss and the Bomb,” New York Times, April 24, 1984 -“The Butter Battle Book,” Turner Network Television, YouTube, 1989 -Dr. Seuss, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go,” 1990 -Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, “Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb," 2012 -Patricia Brennan Demuth, “What Was D-Day,” 2015 (Thanks for the recommendation, Jairus!) Also check out the sources below to learn more about the subjects in this episode – you can also access these links on our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on iTunes, Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay Music, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

Date: January 26, 2012 Featuring: Ellen Goodman, Columnist, Author, founding member of The Conversation Project Ira Byock, MD, Professor, Dartmouth Medical School; Director of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Bernard “Bud” Hammes, PhD, Director, Medical Humanities and Respecting Choices®, Gundersen Health System Martha Hayward, Lead for Public and Patient Engagement, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Most of us, if asked, say we care a great deal about will happen to us when we’re at the end of our lives. And yet, because we’d also rather focus on just about anything but death and dying, especially if we’re young and healthy or aging well, we’re all vulnerable to what can transpire by default: spending our last few days in an ICU, even if that’s at odds with our needs and preferences. The reasons for this disconnect are complex but often stem from the fact that individual and family decisions come late, are hashed out during a crisis, and in the very setting — a hospital — that promises high-tech and high-intervention cures for just about everything.  This scenario is slowly starting to change. There are now numerous efforts, some medically-based and many more that are grassroots, successfully promoting alternative perspectives and practices so that people who’d prefer to die at home can do so, and benefit from pain management and comfort over costly and heroic measures. But when you get right down to it, “dying well” is quite personal and, as such, needs to start in a personal place: by having a conversation with the people you’re closest to about how you want to die and how they, surviving friends and family members, can feel okay carrying out your wishes. Equally important: initiating or being open to that conversation, perhaps several conversations, when the circumstances aren’t so fraught and there’s time to digest and reflect and integrate the information.  All of this and more are what’s behind a new initiative getting underway in 2012 called The Conversation Project (TCP), which will be discussed on the January 26 WIHI. In collaboration with IHI, award-winning columnist and founding member Ellen Goodman and the project’s team members seek to create a cultural movement with one basic goal: to help every American say what they want at the end of life so that family members and medical providers have the guidance they need to respect those preferences. To get there, TCP wants to normalize discussions that can at times feel “too big to broach” by encouraging loved ones to talk to one another when circumstances aren’t so charged — when everyone is healthy — and the environment is more conducive to a good exchange. Around the kitchen table, for instance, rather than the hospital bed.   To launch a national campaign to bring about this change, Ellen Goodman and members of TCP have turned to many, many experts on death and dying, palliative care, and successful partnerships with patients and families, including two outspoken champions of change on the clinical and community side: Dartmouth’s Ira Byock and Gundersen Health System’s Bud Hammes. With IHI’s Martha Hayward also on board, WIHI host Madge Kaplan invites you to get an early look at a unique initiative in the making from the architects themselves. Increasingly, that’s going to become all of us —­having “The Conversation” and telling others how it went and what we learned in the process. It’s hoped that many will benefit, including health professionals who often find themselves at a loss for words, brought up short by their training, and caught in the cross hairs of their own and others’ conflicting emotions and wishes.

Date: August 30, 2012​ Featuring: Ellen Goodman, co-founder, The Conversation Project; Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist and author Larry Weber, Chairman, W2 Group; Author, Everywhere: Comprehensive Digital Business Strategy for the Social Media Era Martha Hayward, Lead for Public and Patient Engagement, Institute for Healthcare Improvement We have lots of meaningful conversations in the course of our lives, but topping the list has to be talking with family members and loved ones about our own — or their — wishes for care at the end of life. Despite the inevitability of death, for many of us this is the last conversation we either want to have or know how to have; it can be especially difficult to initiate. And yet, without these discussions, we or our loved ones run the risk of running headlong into a medical crisis and getting care we don’t want, and not getting the care we do.  Back in January, WIHI offered listeners a preview of a ground-breaking, grass-roots initiative aimed at changing this state of affairs. The Conversation Project — whose goal is that everyone’s end-of-life wishes will be expressed and respected — launched in August 2012 in collaboration with IHI, and some of its key founders and creators are back in the WIHI studio on August 30 to explain what the effort is all about and how you can participate. From the get-go, Ellen Goodman’s vision has been that end-of-life conversations need to become normalized — and that the best place to have the conversation is at the kitchen table, not in the ICU. To support its public campaign, The Conversation Project has created a website that will act as ground zero for collecting and spreading stories, sharing tips and templates to help people get started, and facilitating the networking that’s crucial when trying to bring about cultural change. The latest social media tools (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) will be available to extend the reach and impact of what everyone is learning along the way.  IHI’s Martha Hayward joins Ellen Goodman on WIHI to discuss how The Conversation Project can accelerate efforts to make health care more patient- and family-centered — and not just pertaining to end-of-life care, but with a myriad of health issues. WIHI host Madge Kaplan also welcomes Larry Weber from W2 Group, whose knowledge of social media and its potential to unleash social change has been a critical component of the development of The Conversation Project.

Panel One: Corporate Power Discussants: Siva Vaidhyanathan (Virginia), Mireille Hildebrandt (Brussels) & Ellen Goodman (Rutgers) Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies, University of Virginia, author of The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) and numerous other works. Mireille Hildebrandt holds the chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and since October 2015 she is a Research Professor at the research group for Law Science Technology and Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Ellen P. Goodman is Professor of Law at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL). She is also a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication and has been a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Federal Communications Commission. Ellen has written on digital platforms, the Internet of Things, spectrum and net neutrality policy, free expression and advertising law, and public media, and is currently working on data transparency and civic tech projects. Chair: Daniel Wilson (Cambridge)

Katie Goodman is an award-winning musical comic, actress, author, speaker and social activist. As the creator and headliner of Broad Comedy, an internationally touring satirical show, is co-produced and co-written with her husband, Soren Kisiel, Katie's edgy blend of politics, feminism and music makes her one of the most exciting comedians working today. Born and raised in Brookline, MA, Katie was drafted into politics early. As the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Ellen Goodman, Katie was raised on the importance of addressing social issues. She made her directorial debut in the 2nd grade with the ironic choice of the musical Really Rosie, a story of a precocious child directing and starring in her own musical. And from there she set out on the path of writing and performing. Her subsequent projects have been, shall we say, a little edgier. Along with her solo show, and work with Broad Comedy, Katie and her husband run a theater camp, now in its 21st year for 250 high-energy, theatre-obsessed children. On this episode, Goodman talks about why some women are unwilling to call themselves a feminist and an experience that taught her the importance of speaking up where it makes a difference and when it's worth it.   Key Interview Takeaways Many younger women don't want to call themselves a “feminist” because they've grown up in a feminist world and therefore take it for granted. Taking it for granted isn't a bad thing but we need to remember that there is still work to be done. Comedy is a great place to talk about social issues because it makes people step back and listen with perspective. It's important to identify the things that inspire you as well as the things that will create burnout. For Goodman, it's important to know where and when to speak up. Where it makes a difference and when it's worth it. The format of social media encourages bullying because many people feel like they aren't doing it to real people. Connect with Katie Goodman katiegoodman.com Twitter: twitter.com/katiegoodman Instagram: instagram.com/thekatiegoodman Facebook: facebook.com/KatieGoodmanComedian Youtube: youtube.com/user/broadcomedy Resources Improvisation for the Spirit – By Katie Goodman katiegoodman.com/tickets   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm pleased to post Show # 248, January 29, my interview with The Guardian's Julia Powles and Prof. Ellen Goodman of Rutgers Law School, on the "Right to Be Forgotten." Julia and Ellen have been focusing on the right to be forgotten ("RtBF") for several years, and have done laudable work seeking transparency from its foremost actor, Google [disclosure: I was one of the signatories to the referenced letter]. The RtBF is a prime example of the clash of privacy, information, information platforms and power in technology today, and getting one's head around its complexity requires an interdisciplinary understanding of technology law and policy. In our wide-ranging discussion, we took at hard look at the RtBF, as well as what it teaches us about platforms like Google's broad power to impact human knowledge. {Hearsay Culture is a talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.}

Robert Dallek, Historian   "Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future."   Decision time. Something big. Something momentous that you can't avoid, and you must choose well. Consequences, good or bad are in the offing, and at this point you really wish you could see the future, or wish someone else could for you. At this point, we look for others, hopefully expert others, who can help us navigate the rough waters ahead.   As I have mentioned before on Daggers Of The Mind, there is rarely a shortage of people who are willing to tell you what to do, and they have a variety of reasons for wanting to do so. Some are noble, some are not so noble.   You must be just as careful choosing whose advice to listen to as you do making the momentous decision itself.   Knowing who you can trust in advance is what makes the difference. Know who would care enough to steer you correctly, and who would sell you down the river just to feel a little superior, thus feeling better about themselves.   If you can find a person who cares and is also an expert, you really have something there. Unfortunately, even when you do your homework and think you know someone, you can be blindsided by a trait they had that you didn't see. If that happens, just do damage control where it is needed and get away as fast as you can. Don't agonize about it. They make their own decisions and live with their own consequences. All you can do is start from here.   When it comes down to the rubber meeting the proverbial road, you choose your own path. Get all the expert advice you can, but don't have paralysis by analysis. Get good info, and counseling if you can. Then launch. You can do this.   A quote from Caroline Kennedy:   "When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks."   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dallek   http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-101326/robert-dallek     ----------------------------------------------------   Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist   “There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”     Well, it's time to make a graceful exit. This is episode 50 of Daggers Of The Mind. It is also the final episode.   This is my first podcast, my baby. I have learned so much about how to podcast, and also how not to podcast. I still think this show is great, but it must make way for new opportunities and possibilities.   I would like to thank all those who didn't laugh, and supported me in starting podcasting in the first place. There is a core group who also listened to every episode, either from the beginning, or went back and listened after discovering the show somewhere in the middle.   I have discovered the magic that is missing in Daggers Of The Mind, and that is in the person of my wife, Dee. She is delightful and after 32 years of marriage, still my best friend and the love of my whole life.   Dee has a spontaneity and charm that I lack in the formal delivery of this show. After a few episodes of The WV Podcast, I can see just how valuable that is by the response we have received. I need to stop Daggers Of The Mind in order to put more time into The WV Podcast.   There is also the matter of voice over work and writing for publication that I have been neglecting.   Please don't stop thinking deeply as you go through the rest of your life. As I have said before, every person you meet knows something you don't, and you know something they don't. Please continue to learn from those around you and never stop.     A quote from Mahatma Gandhi:   "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.   http://www.ellengoodman.com/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Goodman   ----------------------------------------------------------   You can find everything we do at http://holbrooknewmedia.com         "And that's all I've got to say about that!"  

Ellen Goodman is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist who writes about the women's movement, politics, and the challenges of our times.

How to prepare your family and make certain your wishes are honored. A discussion with Ellen Goodman, Co-Founder and Director of The Conversation Project. Support the show (https://www.usagainstalzheimers.org/ways-donate)

Robin discusses the Supreme Court's docket and Turkish women's protests, and speaks with guests Pamela Ribon, Derby Doll turned comic; restaurant workers' organizer Saru Jarayaman; Ellen Goodman on reforming end-of-life care; and human rights lawyer Jessica Neuwirth on her surprise "take" on government surveillance.

“The Conversation Project,” is a national movement dedicated to the wishes of end-of-life care. It was launched by Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist for the Boston Globe and author, after her mother's death.

Have you ever considered discussing end of life choices for your loved ones or yourself? Most of us would answer, “yes” to this question. But, as important as the topic is, few feel comfortable bringing it up in conversation. That is… until now. Join Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and journalist, Ellen Goodman, as she talks about “The Conversation Project,” a movement Ellen began after being forced to make critical decisions for her ailing mother—all the while not knowing what she would have wanted. Make to catch this thought-provoking and important look at The Conversation we all need to have with those we love.

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.

Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Goodman, Walter Robinson, Charlie Savage and Sebastian Smee reflected on how winning the award changed their careers. Former Boston Globe columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Oliphant moderated.

Gloria Feldt, former CEO of Planned Parenthood and now a stumper/speaker/social-media activist and teacher, says ''You've Come a Long Way, Maybe.'' In the prologue to her new book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, she signs on to Ellen Goodman's grade of ''Incomplete'' for the revolution.

When it comes to aging baby boomers, "the personal is political" is still a strong rallying cry for people engaged in social enterprise. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation, the ever-lively Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman looks at redefining aging and how we may continue to make meaningful contributions to our families, communities, and country into the elder years. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/ellen_goodman_-_civic_ventures_2009_innovation_summit