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School ActivitiesJanuary 2009

Diana Monahan contacted National Braille Week to advise that she found the site interesting and hopes to involve her school in National Braille Week. She has suggested a couple of ideas below for others who might be interested in doing the same.

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Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford January 2009

Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford offer tactile and large font diagram books in their national Cold War Exhibition. 

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The Ancient House Museum, ThetfordJanuary 2009

The Ancient House Museum, Thetford are putting on 2 days of special events to mark the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth on the 9th and 10th January 2009. 

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First online Braille messages created by Yomego03.01.08

The first online Braille writing application which allows people to send 'secret' messages has been created by social media company Yomego to support Royal Blind's National Braille Week (Jan 4-10, 2008).

Visitors to www.nationalbrailleweek.org (officially live on 4th January 2008) will be able to send an e-card with their messages rendered into a Braille image using the Yomego entertainment platform. The recipients will then follow a link back to the Royal Blind site to decode the message.

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