Audacious Audiopuzzles Book #1

I haven't updated this blog in quite a while. We've been busy with a variety of activities since the last update. For example, we all enjoyed our annual Winter Coats distribution at the Samaritan House in November 2006. In the spring, Jessica and I taught a mini-electronics workshop for the 3rd Grade class at Loyola Catholic School in Denver. A collective of folks have started working on the eBooks initiative, which we plan to test next year in Ethiopia and Tanzania. I'll post a separate summary of that project as soon as I have a spare minute.

But today I just want to post an intro to Audacious Audiopuzzles Book #1. This has been one of the most fun projects we've worked on in our studio. It is an audiobook of 40 brainteasers, logic puzzles, and lateral thinking puzzles, all presented in the medium of sound. Karen Richards wrote the puzzles. Richard Holmes narrated. Mike, Nathan, Jason, and other folks contributed their talents too. We released the audiobook on July 13th, with its own website (www.audiopuzzles.com), and we are getting a lot of good feedback. I'm particularly delighted at the reception by communities of visually-impaired people. Audiobooks are popular in those communities, but there are not many puzzle-related audiobooks to be found. So we are receiving emails from teachers, librarians, parents, and young people who are visually-impaired and want to know more about Audacious Audiopuzzles.

I am learning about making our website more accessible for website visitors who use screen readers and other assistive devices. You'll see improvements soon in that direction.

Peace,
Donna Auguste