[nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College

[Serena Cucco]

Hi Briana,

Your Braille teachers who said Braille is opsalete and that you'll mostly
rely on audio formats are half right and half wrong.  If you have a
subscription to Bookshare or can get one, you can download bookshare books
to your BrailleNote, if you have one of those.  Bookshare subscriptions are
free for students!  It is true that there are not that many books in hard
copy Braille in college, so, maybe, that's what your Braille teachers meant.
They really shouldn't have said it that way!  As far as a Braille
embosser,if you didn't use it in high school, you probably won't need it
much in college.  Can't you simply bring the one you used in high school
with you to college?  If you have to pick what to ask your Commission for
the Blind to buy for you, I strongly suggest a BrailleNote, rather than a
Braille embosser.

Serena 

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Brianna Scerenscko
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:32 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College

Hello NABS Members,
My name is Brianna. I will be entering college next Fall and am
working on writing up my justification list of technology I will need
for college. I have spoken to three braille instructores that I know
and  two of them said that braille kind of becomes opsalete and that
you mostly use audio formatts in college, but the third one said that
I will need a braille embosser. I have access to an embosser in school
and I never use it.
Any feedback would be extremely appreachiated.
Thank You
Brianna


On 2/26/11, Michelle Clark <mcikeyc at aol.com> wrote:
> One of my members called a few days ago  and was advised that rooms are
> getting low. It is my opinion that this Convention will not be the one
that
> if one really wants to go to wait around to make arrangements. They might
> find themselves having to book at Motel of the Crabshack!
>
>
>
> Michelle
>
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