[nabs-l] Fwd: Reminder-Upcoming Seminars: NO COOK Cooking! andGoing Ape for Apps-Hot New Accessible Apps for Your iDevice

Chris Nusbaum dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 23:33:51 UTC 2011


Amen to that, Gloria!

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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
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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

This message was sent to Dandrews at visi.com from:
The Hadley School for the Blind | 700 Elm St.  | Winnetka, IL 
60093


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