[nabs-l] Fwd: Reminder-Upcoming Seminars: NO COOK Cooking! andGoing Ape for Apps-Hot New Accessible Apps for Your iDevice
Chris Nusbaum
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Thu Jul 21 23:33:51 UTC 2011
Amen to that, Gloria!
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gloria G" <gloria.graves at gmail.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:15:41 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Fwd: Reminder-Upcoming Seminars: NO COOK
Cooking! andGoing Ape for Apps-Hot New Accessible Apps for Your
iDevice
Hi,
I have just a couple of thoughts on the seminar on cooking that
occurred. I
just want to say I don't feel anyone meant any harm when
preparing the
seminar. I don't think it was meant to suggest that because
people are blind
their cooking skills are inadequate. I think it was just a
seasonal thing
and just a way to make things easier due to everyone's sometime
busy
schedules. I don't think we as blind people should take offense
to
everything that comes along, and I also read the comment where
someone said
members of the NFB do not like to use adaptive techniques
sometimes, but I
feel the reality for blind people is that we will have to use
adaptive
techniques to maintain our independence, so embrace it and keep
living.
Gloria
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Fwd: Reminder-Upcoming Seminars: NO COOK
Cooking! and
Going Ape for Apps-Hot New Accessible Apps for Your iDevice
Hi all,
To be fair to Hadley, I subscribe to a mainstream cooking
E-newsletter (
busycooks.about.com
) and this week's issue was all about no-cook recipes, frozen
desserts, and other ways to stay cool in the kitchen during the
summer. So I think this is just a seasonal thing.
By the way, I would highly recommend the BusyCooks website,
especially
if you are just learning to cook. They have a lot of great
five-ingredient recipes (which save money as well as time) and
other
cooking shortcuts.
Arielle
On 7/19/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
wrote:
Joeseph,
Actually, I found this fine. I want to attend a hadley webinar
but that
time doesn't work for me.
Maybe they are archived; the wording of it says its summer and
they want
to
talk about food prep that doesn't require a hot kitchen.
Also it says whether
you are preparing for yourself or to impress guests.
So therefore they are assuming that you will prepare for
yourself, family
or
friends; whatever you need to do.
Hadley targets many many people including teachers of the blind
and
visually
impaired; newly blind adults and those blind from birth.
I take it that this is an overview of cooking ideas and
recipies. Its
probably something basic that most could follow from the novice
cook to
the
advanced cook who wants something simple.
I didn't find it offensive at all; I think we read more into
things
sometimes. It does say they will discuss
tips for people with visual impairments; I know NFB people don't
like
adaptive techniques sometimes, so you can take it or leave it.
But
we do need adaptive techniques and a newly blind person may not
know what
to
do.
Many blind cooks use a tray or something to put their pots and
pans and
bowls on while preparing food so any spills fall on the tray and
its
easier
to clean up. Some blind people use liquid level indicators to
know
when their cup is full of the desired liquid. More often people
use a
finger
to fill the bowl/cup or judge by sound. But for those who can't
or don't
want to use their finger, the liquid level indicator
is an option.
We often use the sense of touch instead of seeing to know the
consistency
of
food and keep tabs on what we are doing.
So those are adaptive techniques. Anyone may want simple cold
food
recipies; Hadley just decided to target it to blind people.
However I do agree a sixty minute seminar is too short to cover
such a
topic. But I guess that is all the time they had. Well, anyone
who
attends
can judge afterward.
Ashley
-----Original Message-----
From: T. Joseph Carter
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:10 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Fwd: Reminder-Upcoming Seminars: NO COOK
Cooking!
and
Going Ape for Apps-Hot New Accessible Apps for Your iDevice
I’m of two minds on this, perhaps I’m being overly sensitive.
First, there’s the notion of a seminar for preparing food
without
cooking it. Where do I begin? Let’s start with the seminar
itself:
Most sighted people would never expect a seminar to teach them
how to
follow a recipe. Either you can or you don’t have the requisite
skills to do it. If you don’t have the skills, I’m not sure how
a 60
minute webcast is going to help you get them. A list of recipes
should suffice, and indeed our own Braille Monitor publishes
recipes
(though not often the no-cooking variety) with the assumption
that
fellow blind readers can follow them if they are so inclined.
Then there’s the no cooking aspect. Inherently in this is the
unavoidable assumption that the blind cannot or should not be
cooking
food. Any of you who live alone doubtlessly have SOME food prep
skill, even if you’ve never learned to "cook" as such, and your
skill
mostly consists of using a microwave and boiling water.
But as I said, perhaps I am being overly sensitive. The seminar
format could allow for suggestions for improving the recipes a
bit
(in which case an hour seems too short for more than maybe two
or
three recipes), so maybe that’s what they’ve got in mind.
Possibly
the no-cook aspect has more to do with the idea that it’s summer
and
you don’t want to spend a lot of time in a hot kitchen—or that
you
would prefer cold foods to hot ones at this time of the year.
Or
perhaps they are targeting this to college students who live on
campus and don’t have the means to cook in any traditional way.
Or maybe, it’s because we’re blind.
Joseph - KF7QZC
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:17:55PM -0500, David Andrews wrote:
Seminars at Hadley Presents: NO COOK Cooking!
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Time: 10 AM CDT, 15:00 GMT
Keep your cool! It may be hot outside, but no need to get out of
the
kitchen. There are lots of NO COOK recipes to choose from
whether
preparing a simple, fast meal for yourself or something to
impress
guests.
Panelists Patti Jacobson, Linn Sorge and Goldie Tarr will discuss
their
favorite NO COOK recipes, adding “cool†food preparation tips
that
work for the cook with a visual impairment.
Moderator Dawn Turco will add a few of her favorites as we build
a
resource and recipe list during this 60 minute seminar. Consider
adding
your favorite recipe, too!
Space in this seminar is limited. Please only register if you
know you
are
available to attend so that others are not closed out. To
register for NO
COOK Cooking! on July 20, follow this link:
http://hadley.edu/seminar_detail.asp?sid=94
Seminars at Hadley Presents: Going Ape for Apps-How New Accessible
Apps for
Your iDevice
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011
Time: 6 PM CDT, 23:00 GMT
Apps for money identification, apps for GPS, apps for bar code
reading,
apps for color identification, and apps for games. If you have
an idevice
(iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch), you are bombarded with thousands of
apps
available for your device. Are you overwhelmed with the number
of apps
available for your idevice? Do you want to know more about the
app before
you download it to your device, such as features and
accessibility? Are
you confused about how to locate and download an app to your
idevice?
Join Seminars at Hadley as Hadley Instructor Amy Salmon and Korey
Singleton,
Assistive Technology Initiative Manager for George Mason
University
provide a list of the top accessible apps for your idevices,
explain how
to check an app for accessibility and features, and provide
step-by-step
instructions on how to locate and download an app to your
idevice.
This 60 minute open discussion seminar will be moderated by
Hadley
Outreach Coordinator Billy Brookshire. A question and answer
session will
be included as part of the seminar.
Space in this seminar is limited. Please only register if you
know you
are
available to attend so that others are not closed out. To
register for
Going Ape for Apps on July 21, follow this link:
http://hadley.edu/seminar_detail.asp?sid=95
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The Hadley School for the Blind | 700 Elm St. | Winnetka, IL
60093
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