[nabs-l] handouts in class

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Ashley,

For RFB or other talking books, there's a go to page button that 
you can use.  What player do you use? I know there is a go to 
page button on the Stream and the NLS player.  In Braille books, 
the print page numbers on the top right corner of the Braille 
page.  So, using your example, I would open the book and look at 
the right hand corners until you see the number 12.  A lot of 
times, more than one Braille page makes up one print page, so the 
transcribers will put a letter before the page number, for exaple 
B12.  So, it's probably best to find the last page, for example, 
of page 11 and then find the line in the middle of the page that 
signifies that the print page is going to page 12, even in the 
middle of the Braille page.  That is, if you have a hardcopy.  
But I have found it pretty easy to go to a page in a paperless 
book.  If you're using a DTB player, there should be a go to page 
button.  On the Stream, it's the bottom right button, the pound 
key on the phone-style keypad.  I'm not sure where it is on the 
NLS player, since I don't have one, but I know there is one since 
my friend has a player.  As to assignments, if possible, the 
professor can email you the assignment.  I'm in 8th grade, and my 
teachers do that.  I've set up a separate Gmail account only for 
school emails, so they are separated from all the other emails I 
get on my personal email, especially emails I get from this and 
other lists I'm subscribed to on my personal email.  A professor 
could also put an assignment on a thumb drive for you, and then 
you can either read it on your notetaker (if you still have one) 
or on your laptop (if you have one) with a screen reader.  You 
could even scan it into an OCR program! If you have any 
questions, please let me know.  Hope this helps!

 Chris Nusbaum

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:31:51 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] handouts in class

Hi all,

Although college has mostly lectures, in some subjects such as 
english, we have more interaction in class and assignments in 
class.  We might be given a short essay to read and comment on 
either orally or in writing.  Sometimes we’d read it and 
discuss as a class afterward.  Other times, students access their 
books via skimming during discussions.  How do you deal with 
these assignments? I have asked a classmate to read to me or 
sometimes the professor themselves helps out.  I remember in 
english when we had to write argument essays that we had an 
example that we discussed as a class.  For general discussions 
about homework reading, I read it outside class and referenced my 
notes in class.  I had no access to the material in class.  So 
when the professor said, “look on page 22 at paragraph titled 
Toads" and notice how Joe Smith used metaphor” or says “look 
at page 12, third paragraph,” I can’t access this.  If it’s 
a long pause, sometimes a classmate tells me what it says, but 
other times I just listen.  I thought about bringing my rfb book 
in if I had it via RFB, but figured by the time I set up the 
player and got to the page, the students would have found and 
skimmed the section.  After all, its usually only a few minutes 
that I hear the rustling of pagesor frantic flipping of pages to 
find that passage so they can answer the professor’s questions.

I always like to participate, but this is an area where I 
couldn’t do it as much.  I wondered if you all felt in the same 
boat?
Ashley
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