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November Podcast Nov 30, 2018

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The November edition of the OSSB podcast is packed with all kinds of excitement. We will meet Larisas from Romania who is blind and has a guide dog, and Lorela from Albania who works with visually impaired children in art and theatre. Thank you Vicky Prahin ACB Ohio director for introducing us and giving us this wonderful opportunity. https://www.acbohio.org/ Andre brings us highlights of the Ocalicon conference. https://ocali.org/ Emily interviews the girl’s goalball team after their 3rd place conference finish. http://ncasb.org/sports/ncasb-goalball/ We will learn about a special custom celebrated by people of the Hispanic culture. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/mexico/top-ten-day-of-dead-mexico/ Our alumni focus this month is Mr. Dan Lohr. He graduated in 1992. Mrs. Robin Finley will get us fired up about braille at OSSB by talking about a contest that will be taking place between Thanksgiving and January. "See it, Braille it" OSSB students are preparing for the braille challenge in March held at the Clovernook Center for the blind and visually impaired in Cincinnati, Ohio. https://www.clovernook.org/ https://www.brailleinstitute.org/braille-challenge At the end of the podcast, Mr. Kelley invites you to his preparation of Thanksgiving dinner. Deep frying turkey from a blind point of view.

October Podcast Oct 31, 2018

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Our October OSSB podcast is packed with all kinds of exciting news and events that have taken place in and around the Ohio State School for the Blind. Our elementary students traveled to the Kentucky school for the blind for the Bill Roby track and field day. Nick and Perseus will share their memories of that day. October 7 OSSB students and staff participated in the 9th annual orthopedic spirit Sprint 5k to raise money to support student activities at ossb. Special thanks to Mrs. Parrish for all of her work making this event a huge success. https://runsignup.com/Race/OH/Columbus/SpiritSprint5K WE take a look at blind soccer with Katie Atkinson. This sport has been around since 1996 and debuted as a Paralympic game in Athens in 2004. https://www.usaba.org/sports/soccer-5-a-side/ We will meet more of our OSSB students this month. White cane day was filled with all kinds of excitement. We will meet Doug Payne. He works for Microsoft and is visually impaired himself. Our alumni focus this month is Alex Crawford. Alex graduated in 2017 and straight out of the gate of OSSB he will give us his prospective as a full-time student who also has a part-time job. Our goalball team is gearing up on the court for the ncasb championship in November. We cap off the month with some halloweenish activities. It is always fun to get a little candy and it is fun to retell a ghost story or 2.

September Podcast Sep 30, 2018

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On the September edition of the OSSB podcast, we continue to explore facts about outer space. National pirate day; we have an expert in pirate speak. We meet some students from Mrs. Butler’s class and Mrs. Picard’s sixth period class. Coach Heath gives us a track update as the guys and girls track team prepares for track conference. The Columbus Zoo visits OSSB with some animals. Matt Cromer a graduate of 2009 is our alumni focus. He talks about what he has been up to and his connection with the Easter Seals in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of our seniors visit the original campus of the School for the Blind to learn about architecture and design. Andre and Aujanee interview Beth Slade from Leader dogs for the Blind. Julia brings us the activities calendar for October and we have a summary of track finishes at conference. Please enjoy and we will see you next month.

OSSB August Podcast Sep 05, 2018

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Welcome back to the 2018-19 OSSB Podcast. This one is a short one where we meet some new students and staff, wrap up our summer and look forward to a new school year. Thank you for your continued support of our podcast.

Ecc Summer Camp 2018 Podcast Jun 22, 2018

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This special edition of the podcast covers the OSSB ECC summer camp. We look at areas of the expanded core curriculum; O&M, social skills, Independent Living Skills and technology. Participants talked about their experiences and you hear some of the sounds of what happened at camp this week.

OSSB End Of The 2017 - 2018 School Year Podcast Jun 02, 2018

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Welcome to the End of the School Year Podcast at the Ohio State School for the Blind. Students really wanted to amp it up a little and do some exciting end of the year things for you, the listener. We talk with a few of our graduating seniors, We interview some new students who started OSSB during the 2017-18 school year. Mr. Kelley’s fifth period class will present their individual podcast articles complete with music and sound effects. We’ll hear about the catering programs at the school for the blind and the school for the deaf combine to put on a great lunch for Ohio educators. Andre and Latrell interviewed Mr. Kelley. And Principal Mr. Ransey, as you will hear, turned the tables on the podcast team when they wanted to interview him. The students who take ILS and Braille had a picnic and the podcast team was there to cover that event. Mr. Kelley presents alumni focus “360” and talks with Ryan Chandler, a recent grad of OSSB. We go behind the scenes at John Glen airport with the O&M staff and juniors and seniors. Stay tuned to the very end where the podcast team, including Mr. Kelley, does a little wrap, to wrap up the end of the year. You will hear all of the music we used this year we used in each podcast. We hope all of you have a safe, fun filled summer and we look forward to bringing you more of the same this fall. And thank you again for listening.

May Podcast May 02, 2018

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April Podcast Mar 30, 2018

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OSSB March Podcast Mar 01, 2018

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February Podcast Feb 01, 2018

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Welcome to the February Podcast! This podcast students will be retelling greek myths that go back thousands, even millions of years. For our Alumni of the Month, we will be talking to Larry Smith. He graduated OSSB in 1960! We will also be talking about World Braille Day with Ms. Finley! also we at the OSSB Podcast Team would like to say thank you to Zack for composing this month’s music. Thanks Zack!

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