Episodes
The Podcast is back with the February 2021 edition. Thanks to all who tune in and contribute. This month, we meet a new student, the podcast club gives us a couple of interviews, and we will learn how to make snow ice cream. Thank you again for listening.
Published 02/28/21
This month we welcome in the new year. Our special guest on the alumni focus is Kenny Shipman, who graduated in 1962. January is a transition from virtual learning to in person hybrid learning and we will talk with some of our students about their return to school. We will meet our new substitute teacher Chris Harrington. Thanks again for tuning in and supporting the work of our students and staff at the Ohio State School for the Blind.
Published 01/31/21
Welcome to the December 2020 edition of the OSSB podcast. This month, we venture down memory lane, hear from many of our students and staff, talk about our school wide election, what the graphics department is up to and much more. Thank you as always for listening and happy holidays from the podcast team. Everyone enjoy your winter break.
Published 12/18/20
Welcome to the November edition of the 2020 OSSB Podcast. WE have a special presentation/discussion with Jamie Keith Oxendine. We gain a lot of insight about people of native America, contributions of native American’s and so much more. In part 2 we present some facts about November, discuss how we are getting ready for winter, going virtual again and we will meet a new teacher of the OSSB family, MS Riggs. For more information on native America and Jamie Oxendine, visit one of the...
Published 11/30/20
Welcome to the November edition of the 2020 OSSB Podcast. WE have a special presentation/discussion with Jamie Keith Oxendine. We gain a lot of insight about people of native America, contributions of native American’s and so much more. In part 2 we present some facts about November, discuss how we are getting ready for winter, going virtual again and we will meet a new teacher of the OSSB family, MS Riggs. For more information on native America and Jamie Oxendine, visit one of the...
Published 11/30/20
Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the OSSB podcast. This month, we return to campus, celebrate white cane day and we'll hear many activities about how we have some fun around Halloween. Emily and the podcast crew bring us a new audio halloween story to end the podcast. Runtime is 1 hour 19 minutes. Thank you for tuning in and supporting what our students are doing and staying connected with the Ohio State School for the blind.
Published 10/30/20
Welcome back to the 2020-21 school year. The September edition of the OSSB podcast will get us started in fine fashion. We get a glimpse of what opening day was like, we meet some of our new students and talk to students from elementary, middle and high school about virtual learning and getting their perspective on learning from home. Our superintendent, Dr. Maynus, speaks to our audience about what is going on at OSSB and some things to come at the school. OSSB has a newly designed web...
Published 09/30/20
This is our final edition of the podcast until we come back together in some respect in August. Today we focus on our senior class of 2020. They will share some memories, stories and future plans. We will also listen to some of the first ever virtual graduation ceremony. Thank you, as always, for listening.
Published 06/10/20
Welcome to episode 3 of the May edition of the OSSB podcast. In this episode we catch up on OSSB news and talk about gardening from a blindness prospective. If you want to register for a virtual summer camp, click on the following link. http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egz35gewc52f540f&fbclid=IwAR291AMiwVF9ETPGgP2OAip7pscm7mCeP-aCh_cfXqkNiliLuwU7zBf8_A8&llr=agn49dabb Summer camps are open to any student in the state of Ohio with a visual...
Published 05/21/20
Welcome to episode 2 of the OSSB podcast in the month of May, 2020. In this episode Alison Brewer-Wood, our Physical education and health teacher, shares some tips for making masks and maintaining social distancing. Her videos can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czGKpD2W5Q4 https://youtu.be/KzSFfA6Iq7M It is not to late to order your 2019-20 OSSB yearbook from www.treering.com/validate And we will share out some different ways people in our community are using Amazon...
Published 05/09/20
In this special edition, we look at being creative and fun. We share with you how to make doughnuts from Scratch. We used a recipe from https://www.macheesmo.com/vanilla-cream-long-johns/ and went through the steps to create some very delicious pastries. We hope all are staying healthy, well and safe and keeping your brains busy. Enjoy this special edition of the OSSB podcast and thanks as always for tuning in.
Published 05/05/20
Let's do some Grilling with Mr. Kelley. Thanks for tuning in. I walk you through how I grill some cheeseburgers for dinner with a blindness prospective. Please enjoy and thanks for cooking out with me. If you have an experience that you would like to share, please let me know by dropping an email to [email protected] or voicemail to 614-486-8866.
Published 04/24/20
Today we are joined by former students ASia and Sam. We talk about how to maintain a guide dog team and some entertainment at the end of the podcast. Thank you for tuning in and supporting what we do.
Published 04/18/20
The podcast crew are joined with their peers via Zoom and discuss the many ways they are staying organized and being productive at home. Also we discuss ways they are staying busy and the kids give a few special shout outs. Thank you again for tuning into our special editions of the OSSB podcast. If you would like to share something, drop and audio clip or email me at [email protected] or you can leave me a voicemail at 614-468-8866.
Published 04/15/20
In this special edition of the OSSB podcast I have a conversation with alumni President Edward Schwilk. If you would like to contribute to the podcast, please drop me an email at [email protected]. You can write an email or attach an audio clip. You can also leave me a voicemail at 614-486-8866. Share what you are doing during this time in which we are home for an extended period of time. Or if you want to give a special shoutout or hello to someone. We would love to hear from you. ...
Published 04/10/20
In the March edition of the OSSB podcast, Dr. Lou Maynus, gives us an update on The Ohio State School for the Blind and what we are doing during COVID19. We will hear some segments that were recorded at the beginning of the month. Students have been working on different areas of the expanded core curriculum and will be sharing what they have learned. Thank you seventh grade and tenth grade for your submissions this month. Our Alumni focus this month is Brendon who has started a podcast...
Published 03/27/20
Thank you for listening to the February edition of the podcast club’s podcast. In episode 3, students continue to work on interviewing skills. We look at how to use Voice Memos on an iPad to record an interview. We will hear some new music produced by our students as well. James does some field work and covers a field trip to Laser Craze and covers the valentines day dance put on by the residential program. Thank you so much for listening each month.
Published 02/29/20
Thank you for tuning into the February edition of the OSSB podcast. This month’s episode is packed full of exciting things going on at the Ohio State School for the Blind. Students traveled to Cincinnati to the Clovernook Center for the Blind to compete in the fourth annual Braille Challenge. Matt gives an overview of how the Polaroid Pop camera and app work. To honor black history month we join our wrestlers and cheerleaders in Little Rock, Arkansas when they visited Central High School....
Published 02/29/20
This month the podcast club had a great time creating commercials and working on interviewing skills. Great conversation was had in the studio. We talked about our winter break and plans for the remainder of the year.
Published 01/31/20
In this edition of the OSSB Podcast, the team welcomes in the new year. Want to listen to our podcast on your Amazon Alexa? Matt and Emily explain how to set up your Alexa to play podcasts. If you would like more information, you can visit: The Applevis Podcast. The 4th grade class explores what happens to candy canes in different substances. January 4th was World Braille Day. The students celebrated a few days late, but there was still fun activities, such as a trivia game, fun braille...
Published 01/31/20
This is a special edition of the ossb podcast. It is brought to you by the ossb podcast club. This group meets once a week for a couple of hours. Some students have no computer skills, but all students learn the basics of podcasting: VoiceOvers, mixing audio and much more. We range all over topics from our weekends to story telling, to saying what podcast club is like.
Published 12/20/19
We are so excited to bring you the December edition of the OSSB podcast. This month’s episode is packed full of exciting news of what is happening at the Ohio State School for the Blind. We streamed our winter concert and it is available right here. Below are the links to the 2019 Winter...
Published 12/20/19
The November edition of the OSSB podcast is packed full of fun. We meet 2 new members of the OSSB family, our librarian and our transition coordinator. OSSB hosted the first ever Delta Gamma day on November 19 so we will meet them and hear from students at all grade levels about their experience on DG day. Delta Gamma’s motto is “do Good.” To learn more about Delta Gamma visit www.deltagamma.org. Want to eat better, especially when you need to be in a hurry, we join MS Honse and the ILS...
Published 11/30/19
We are excited to bring you the October 2019 Edition of the OSSB Podcast. In this episode we will travel down to the Kentucky School for the Blind with the Elementary for the Bill Roby games that happened on October 3rd. Students in our ILS department bring us to Links Lemonade and talk about what they had to eat and how to use a budget to plan a meal. This month our health classes did some research on health organizations which have significant impact on our community. We will learn about...
Published 11/01/19
Welcome to the September edition of the OSSB Podcast. This month we will be talking about the preparations our track team has made to get ready for track conference which will be held at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. We meet our new fourth grade teacher and had a podcast discussion with the fourth grade class. If you are interested in reading the fourth grade blog, you can find it here. https://ossb4thgrade.edublogs.org/ We talked to Mrs. Wendy who is now an...
Published 09/30/19