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Tactile Images Are Useful For Everyone
Some people use their eyes to view the beauty of our world. Some people view the same beauty through their fingertips and then paint a picture of the world in their mind's eye. Noreen Grice makes the night sky accessible through tactile (touchable) celestial images. As you slide your fingers across the textures of these tactile pictures, you connect with each image both physically and emotionally.
Tactile pictures are useful for all learners, regardless of their visual ability, because touchable images provide new opportunities to meet a variety of learning styles.
Noreen Grice designs astronomy tactile images so people can better connect with the cosmos, whether they are sighted or blind.
Here are some examples of how sighted people are using Noreen's tactile images to help them better understand the universe.
NASA Star Party, Colorado, April 2008:
Jim Stryder, NASA educator, has students touch a tactile image of Saturn (from Noreen Grice's Touch the Universe ) before they view Saturn through the telescope. Click on the link to read more.
http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/experience/gallery-photo.cfm?id=455
Tactile Images at Western Connecticut State University, Spring 2005:
Dr. Dennis Dawson provided tactile star patterns (designed by Noreen Grice) for visitors to use during his public planetarium shows. Visitors also explored tactile images while viewing the same objects through the university telescope.
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Visitors touch images of star patterns while listening to a live planetarium show |
A young visitor touches a tactile picture of Saturn while viewing Saturn through the telescope.
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| A visitor touches a tactile image of the Orion Nebula while viewing it through the telescope. |
A visitor touches a tactile image of the Crescent Moon while viewing it through the telescope. |
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