[nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College

Sun Feb 27 03:56:04 UTC 2011

The embosser issue is a personal choice, but I definitely agree that, if you 
do not have an embosser, you at least need to have a Perkins or other 
Braille writer. I have an embosser, but, do to space, I opted not to bring 
it to college with me this year, but I did bring my Perkins. My safety net, 
should I ever need to use an embosser, is that I can ask the DRC to emboss 
something for me, which I have not had to do, as I do not use hardcopy 
Braille that much, with the major exception being tactile graphics.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brianna Scerenscko" <bfs1206 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College

> Thanks everyone.
>
> On 2/26/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:
>> Right on, Ashley! I don't like the Perkins Brailler, though. It makes
>> too much noise, and disturbs my sighted counterparts in college. I'm
>> looking forward to getting that new Brailler, that I was talking about
>> in a previous thread. Brianna, this Brailler I'm referring to is
>> lighter, and makes less racket! Best of all, you can plug it into a
>> computer, and print out your work, so you can have the hard copy
>> Braille, that you did, plus the print to give to your professor.
>> Contact David Pillisher, (the one that has invented this Brailler.)
>> Blessings, Joshua
>>
>> On 2/26/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Brianna,
>>> Hi, well I don't agree with the obsolete statement.
>>> Its true that given the large amount of reading and new textbooks you 
>>> have
>>> in college,
>>> audio formats will be your primary way of reading and obtaining
>>> information.
>>> You'll read slides/handouts from professors. You'll read your texts in
>>> audio
>>> format through RFB and/or electronic text.
>>>
>>> But you will certainly need braille and will use it daily, especially if
>>> you
>>> used braille to study in high school!  Some are already auditory 
>>> learners;
>>> others like me used braille a lot in public school and still do!
>>> You need a braille notetaker with a braille display!  This way you can
>>> take
>>> notes and read them.
>>> As others have said, you can also download books and read them that way.
>>> Your english classes and perhaps history courses may require reading
>>> novels
>>> or parts of them.
>>> These novels may be available online.  You can then download them to the
>>> computer and then to a thumb drive or SD card so you can put that into
>>> your
>>> notetaker and read.
>>> For instance using bookshare or web Braille from NLS.
>>> I had to read the Prince for history; I had to read some classics and
>>> novels
>>> for english including Death of a Salesman, The Glass Manassury, and To
>>> Kill
>>> a Mocking bird.
>>> Although I read them on audio format I'm sure they are also available in
>>> braille.
>>>
>>> As to the question of the embosser, that is up to you.
>>> Will you want to have hard copy braille of notes or handouts?
>>> Are you one who likes to see braille and read it down the page rather 
>>> than
>>> linearly on a display?
>>>
>>> I have an old embosser; we did not get it through the agency though; I
>>> think
>>> we bought it used; I can;'t remember how my family got it for me.
>>> I use it sometimes; but use the display more.
>>> I find the embossed braille helpful to study particular concepts having
>>> odd
>>> spelled names or something difficult.
>>> Also to study something like Grammar in english or another language, I
>>> need
>>> braille and particularly hard copy braille!
>>> Audio just is not real helpful.
>>>
>>> So when you justify equipment, definitely have a way to access braille
>>> whether it be a display on your notetaker or a display hooked to a 
>>> laptop
>>> or
>>> desktop.
>>> You may or may not need the embosser.  But if you do not get that, you
>>> should have a braille writer, I mean the old fashioned perkins brailler!
>>> I say this because there will be some times where you need hard copy
>>> braille.
>>> Two instances:
>>> 1. you do a presentation and need notes in a speech class or something
>>> else.
>>> 2. You need to read something in class or you need to memorize something
>>> for
>>> an acting class or something.
>>> You'll want something hard copy then.
>>>
>>> Ashley
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Brianna Scerenscko
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:31 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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