[nabs-l] introductionn, and a few questions

[alena roberts]

Carey,

Welcome to the list. As far as your questions. I don't think asking for electronic copies is unreasonable. Also, for notes you should ask your disability services office for a notetaker, and if you want to read the notes on blackboard, you need to ask your prof to change the format so that they're a pdf file rather than power point. That worked for me at least. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Alena
On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Kerri Kosten wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> I am new to the list. I just recently joined the NFB after listening
> to the convention in July.
> 
> My name is Kerri Kosten. I am a student at West Virginia University
> majoring in Journalism. I also work at a local radio station, doing
> the sports page for one of the stations websites among other things.
> 
> I had a couple of questions. I wasn't taught very well in high school
> about college, so I hope these aren't dumb questions.
> 
> First, if a professor hands out material in print, is it appropriate
> to ask for them to email you an electronic copy? I have Kurzweil at
> home, but my scanner is really big so haven't set it up in my
> apartment yet. I use and love the Iphone so don't really want to have
> to switch to a Nokia just for the KNFB reader, so that's not really an
> option so I've been just asking the professors to email a copy of the
> handout but wanted to make sure this is appropriate and okay, and not
> asking too much.
> 
> How do you handle taking notes from powerpoint lectures? At WVU, the
> professors always use powerpoints up on a screen so the other students
> can copy the notes down from the powerpoints. They post the
> powerpoints on Blackboard after the class, but I haven't found them to
> be accessible from the Blackboard's website unless I am doing
> something wrong.
> I have been just listening for key things the professor says and
> writing stuff down that way that I think is noteworthy but if the
> professor gives a really long definition sometimes I forget part of
> the definition. The other students can of course look at the
> powerpoints to make sure they have copied the notes correctly...so I
> was wondering how you guys handled that.
> 
> I am also going to take a class next semester in Biology. When we
> study genetics, how did you do the whole punnett square thing to
> understand genetics?
> 
> Thanks so much, and like I said I hope these aren't dumb questions.
> 
> Kerri
> 
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