[nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College

Brianna Scerenscko bfs1206 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 00:57:46 UTC 2011


Thanks for all the help everyone.

On 2/27/11, Serena Cucco <serenacucco at verizon.net> wrote:
> Actually, you could just take your notes for your presentation on your
> BrailleNote.  One more use for a Brailler--Statistics or other required Math
> course!
>
> Serena
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:56 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Using A Braille Embosser In College
>
> 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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