[nabs-l] introduction, and a few questions

[Ben Peters]

Hi Keri, welcome to the list. I'm Ben, and I just graduated with my associates and am now going to be working on my BA in psychology. 

It is very reasonable and appropriate to ask professors for handouts to be emailed. I do this all the time, and try to have them emailed before class so I'm on the same page. I had one professor willing to email everything including exams at one time, but he was the only one that went to that extreme. 

I take notes on a braille note. I don't get everything, but I try to make up for this by doing a few things. 1. I record the lecture. 2. I take notes when reading the book jotting down definitions etc that are important. 3. I team up with a friend or someone I know in the class so I can always ask them questions (or vise vera) about stuff I didn't get written down. 4. I ask the professor about specific definitions or whatever. 5. I will google it. I don't do all this at once, I use what I think is useful at the time. 

In regards to the powerpoint slides, talk to your professor and explain the situation. Ask him or her to provide them in blackboard or to you privately in a different format like PDF or word. Generally I've found these formats to work better than powerpoints. Just make the case for it. I had a professor last semester go out of his way (thankfully for me) to provide me word files of all the matterial posted to blackboard while the other students got the regular format. If the professor won't assist, consider talking to your disability services office and see what they suggest. They might be able to reformat them for you. But you should have the same access to the powerpoints as everyone else. 

I'm sorry, but I can't help with your biology question. 

Ben

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 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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