[nabs-l] Braille e-Book CONCEPT Continued

[Sarah Alawami]

I don't remember the personal  touch but I do think it is a good idea, and
hopefully it will be able to be intagrated not only for tests but how about
those papers the teacher hands out. I can envission a wireless way of
comunicating between the teacher and student so the student can read with
the class and take notes with his or her slate and styless, or note taker.

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Rob Lambert
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:43 PM
To: NFB Student List
Subject: [nabs-l] Braille e-Book CONCEPT Continued

This is a continuation of the Braille eBook concept email. Please read that
if you haven't yet. To continue from that e-mail, I think the NLS could take
advantage of this and put all their Web Braille titles up here. Also people
nowadays don't want to read Braille because of the expense involved with
hard copy Braille and the displays and teachers don't want to take the time
to learn Braille - we need to play with this technology - we could use it to
create a system where a teacher could have a hard copy test word for word
distributed to the student and they could read it exactly as it appears in
the print version, hook up a keyboard to it, and answer the questions on the
test, save the document, then send it back to the teacher for grading. This
could easily be more than an eBook reader. Back in the Blazie days there was
a device called the Personal Touch which was a Braille 'n Speak without the
speech. This could be the same thing, if need be. It's  primary purpose
being e-books, but you could attach additional functionality with modules or
something. These are just ideas, but this technology is the best thing since
sliced bread, in my opinion, and we need to expand it's uses.



      
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