[Blindmath] Teacher with Vision Loss Teaching Sighted Undergrads

[Christine Szostak]

Hi Ben,
  First, I believe Blackboard is actually just the specific brand as our 
university uses a different form, though Blackboard is more well known. It 
is simply a website that is used in educational settings in order to allow 
for online classroom instruction, interaction, discussion, work, assignment 
completing/submitting, grading... It is used by students and faculty alike 
and is becoming commonplace at most universities and is also the way most 
online educational programs work. Many professors use it to post their 
PowerPoint slides, engage students in out-of-class discussion, give exams, 
collect written class projects, post grades...

  The one our university uses is actually quite JAWS friendly. I have found 
that I can pretty much do everything my classmates can do with it. Since I 
have  been a TA for various faculty and since our lab uses it for 
undergraduate education purposes, I have had to learn a lot of the teaching 
side as well including setting  up the website for the professor... Both 
sides are able to be done with JAWS which helps greatly and nearly if not 
everything can be done without sighted assistance.

  To be clear, it is not something you would independently use or purchase 
since it is mainly  for extending classroom learning to a more virtual 
platform.
many thanks,
Christine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Humphreys" <brh at opticinspiration.org>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Teacher with Vision Loss Teaching Sighted 
Undergrads


> Christine
>
> What is blackboard?  Is it used in the classroom or as a means of 
> assigning and collecting homework?  Is it equally friendly to blind 
> students as well as instructors?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ben
>
> At 04:45 AM 8/11/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>  Thanks for the suggestions. I had been thinking about electronic 
>> versions and will most likely go that rout, especially since the version 
>> of blackboard that our school uses works really well with JAWS.
>>many thanks,
>>Christine
>>
>>
>>Christine M. Szostak
>>Doctoral Candidate
>>Language Perception Laboratory
>>Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
>>The Ohio State University
>>Columbus, Ohio
>>szostak.1 at osu.edu
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal at gmail.com>
>>To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
>><blindmath at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:48 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Teacher with Vision Loss Teaching Sighted 
>>Undergrads
>>
>>
>>>Christine,
>>>
>>>I have not taught at a university setting so cannot help much with 
>>>grading.
>>>I have taught sighted people before. one technique I use is to create my
>>>lesson as a presentation and run that in class. This ensures that I stay 
>>>on
>>>track and the student's audio visual senses are engaged.
>>>
>>>As for grading, why can't they give you their work in electronic format?
>>>
>>>Pranav
>>>
>>>
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