Alexa is very talented! I want you to discover some of the ways that you can use Amazon’s Echo Show with Alexa during O&M Instruction to teach a variety of skills.
How to Incorporate Amazon products that speak into O&M Instruction
Low Vision
DIY Signage for Monocular Practice
This is a project to create a handy set of signage that you can carry around with you to different instruction sites.
Mobile Payment Service Guide
Attached is a guideline for teaching students how to use a mobile payment service such as Venmo.
Tactile Rubik’s Cube
How to make your own Tactile Rubik’s Cube! Contributed by Kristen Sharpless, currently a Vision Rehab Master's student whose creative idea went viral!
Landmarks. Yeah But What Are They? Part 2.
After teaching my students the three characteristics of a good O&M landmark, it was time for them to identify on their own what can or can’t be a landmark. This lesson was a good way to make sure my students understood what landmarks are before going out into the community to look for real life landmarks.
Monocular Scanning for Friends
This is a motivating activity that gets a student to practice using their monocular to scan for targets (paper friends) with a specific feature.
Deal or No Deal?
This activity takes place over two lessons within two grocery stores of your students choosing. Scanning, blur interpretation, monocular use, soliciting assistance, and room orientation patterns are just a few skills that can be incorporated into this lesson.
Scanning for Trolls
Getting a young student to be interested in scanning is easiest when they do not even know they are doing it.
Red Light, Green Light
It is the traditional Red Light, Green Light, but I was sneaky and incorporated as much O&M into the lesson as possible.
Orientation Picture Book
An O&M picture book can be used to increase a students independence with orientation when traveling a route by relying less on instructor prompts about which direction to go next.