[Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations

[Stefanie Levy]

My daughter is much younger, elem school, but from time to time her vision 
teacher sends me things to keep for the future.  Coincidentally, she just 
sent this set of instructions from a vision technology specialist.

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schools are using this board now and this is very cool that they can do this 
for our low vision students.   This is how you use a microscope to magnify 
biology slides seen under a microscope for a low vision student to see them.


1.       Hook up a Flex Cam to the Promethean Board AV inputs (the AV inputs 
are usually on the bottom of the board either on the right or left side 
where the small silver box is located).

2.       Focus the microscope using your eyes.

3.       Bend the flex cam so that the camera lens is in line with the 
microscope lens.  (see attached Photo)

4.       You should now see a blurred image of the slide on the Promethean 
Board.  Use the focusing feature (the ring around the lens) of the Flex Cam 
to focus the image on the Board until it's clear.  I spoke with multiple 
Biology teachers and they said they use this all the time with their classes 
so they can discuss what the kids see on the microscope slide as a class.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maurice Peret" <mperet at BISM.org>
To: "Maryland Parents of Blind Children List" <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations


> Maureen,
>
> I would direct you to the National Federation of the Blind's various 
> education initiatives which confront just these sorts of questions. There 
> is, for example, a blind doctoral candidate in chemistry working hard on 
> nonvisual lab solutions. You might begin by pointing your web browser to: 
> http://www.blindscience.org for some ideas and contact information.
>
> I hope this will suffice as a helpful beginning.
>
> Maurice
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdpobc-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:mdpobc-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Maureen Austen
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:51 AM
> To: mdpobc at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Mdpobc] Biology class accommodations
>
> Hi,
> My son, in college, will be taking biology next semester.  He has some
> vision yet, but I know he'll have a hard time seeing anything in the
> microscope.  Does anyone have any suggestions for successful
> accommodations in a science lab?  Thanks so much, Maureen Austen
>
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