ACB Community

We’ve all come to vision loss in different ways and times in our lives. Here’s an opportunity to ask those, “How do you do this?” questions and share tried and true techniques with one another. Join Elizabeth Bowden for a candid chat of sharing, and let’s help each other make our lives a little easier in the process. This week, we’ll share ways that will make doing laundry much cleaner.

Please join us as we continue to delve even further in to the part personality plays in all aspects of conflict and its resolution; this time we will particularly look at how to approach each personality type in a conflict and how each personality type functions when in a stressful situation. If you have a chance, please try to take this personality assessment before the training; it will assist you in relating better to the material.

So you want to be an Audio Description Narrator or Writer? You'll want to tune into this in-depth discussion.

If you are already hosting or facilitating a community call, you are strongly encouraged to join us. If you are wondering what the duties of these roles are, you are welcome to take part too. Virtual gatherings have become a common occurrence in our daily lives, but they’re still relatively new. The more we understand our positions in them, the more effective we’ll be and the more enjoyable for all.

Have you been coming to the community calls for a while from your phone but find yourself nervous about using the actual app? Would you like to learn about some of the often unused features such as screen sharing or chat? Join Meka for explanations of some of Zoom's features and hands-on demonstrations. In order to get the most out of this workshop, please log on using your smartphone, tablet, or PC, or mac.

Our Lady A device can do all kinds of things to help make our lives a little easier from providing helpful and sometimes useless information to even providing a little levity to our days. What is that one skill you’d like to share with our community? Join Cindy and Tyson for this Echo skill sharing bonanza!

Are you interested in hosting calls for your local chapter or affiliate? Come get a behind the scenes view of what it means to host a call. Let us show you what it’s like to be a mic runner in a virtual world and how to manage any size group.

Although many people use Microsoft Outlook to read and manage their email, the fact is that this program is not free of cost. If you're wanting to use a totally free and accessible email, program Mozilla Thunderbird may be the program you're looking for. During this introduction we'll cover how to download, install and set up Thunderbird as well as how to read, reply to, forward and store your email messages in different folders. There will also be time for participants to ask questions.

Have you ever wondered what's up with all of those hashtags, trending topics, and mentions? What's a DM, anyway? Well, birds aren't the only ones with the ability to tweet. Please join Meka and learn what Twitter is, why you might want to try it, and how you, too, can start giving your 280 character thoughts on the world wide web!