[Blindmath] Powerpoint question

[Ryan Thomas]

Hello all,

   Does anyone know how to insert Greek characters into word, or more
importantly, into the text of powerpoint slides.  I use things like
sigma a lot, but I tend to write it out.  I need to know a better way
of writing symbols like Greek letters and square root signs for my
students.  The problem is classes start soon and I don't have a lot of
time or money to learn or buy a new program.  Also, does anyone know
of any good powerpoint and Jaws tutorials online?  I could really use
them.

Sincerely,
   Ryan

On 8/15/11, Paul Wright <paulrite at math.umd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> As a JAWS user who also teaches intro Calculus courses, I thought I
> would write in to give you my encouragement and advice.
>
> First, I haven't used Learning Ally's calculus texts, but others on this
> e-mail list have had very good things to say about learning from them,
> so my guess is that if they have the same text as the one used by your
> university, that is probably a good option.
>
> Second, I really love LaTeX, and it works reasonably well with the
> editor TeXnic Center and JAWS.  I'd never heard about Edsharp  before,
> but I was just reading about it on-line, and it sounds very promising.
> I'll definitely give it a try myself.  However, I did want to point out
> that in beginning calculus, especially the first couple of semesters,
> you are unlikely to run into seriously complicated math formulas.  If
> you find that you are spending too much time learning LaTeX, you may
> want to just write out your work using words and symbols, and it will
> probably be just as clear to your instructors.  Along the same line of
> thought, it depends on your instructors, but they may well be willing to
> accept plain LaTeX code as your solutions; for the basic formulas, it is
> pretty easy for a sighted reader familiar with the code to just read.
>
> You can definitely use Matlab with JAWS, but I have little experience
> with it's graphics capabilities, so I probably can't help you much
> there.
>
> Please feel free to contact me off list if you'd like to chat some more.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
> -----------------------------------
>   Paul Wright
>   Department of Mathematics
>   University of Maryland
>   http://www.math.umd.edu/~paulrite
>
>
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