[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I use it for marking scripts and music. I am given about 6 new pieces of 
music a week that I need to perform. I need to memorize them and I'm given 
30 minutes with a coach to get 2 or 3 pieces performance ready. This means 
things are lightning fast and even though I have a recorder, it doesn't help 
in the lesson itself. If I'm told to breathe in a spot I have muscle memory 
to fight against when I'm reading and often times the teacher will get 
fixated on that one thing as if I fail to correct that 100% of the time it 
keeps me from doing the rest of the phrase correctly.
Also when I am given a script 15 minutes before I go in for a performance, I 
have to mark the score to remind myself of dynamics and what not.

In English class, I use the highlights to point me to a section of a book to 
where I can glean new information every time. If I mark the page and phrase 
in the book it takes a very long time and as often times one has no idea 
what they will be writing in the future, I need to reread that section.
I memorize my marks and what is at either mark and move to those marks. This 
also works on a word document.
Highlighters are for speed mostly and are a tool that helps when one has 
hardly enough time to read the books let alone write out notes. This is one 
of the reasons why honors students at the Ivey league schools have belts of 
high lighters.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Arielle Silverman
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:08 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Personally I never understood the utility of highlighting in
textbooks. Actually when I tutor sighted students I encourage them to
take notes on a passage instead  of highlighting the relevant
sections. When you write a summary of what you are reading, or even
just copy  key phrases verbatim, your brain is engaging more deeply
with the material than if you just mark something as important and
come back to it later. Eventually your goal should be to commit
important points to memory rather than having to review highlights
over and over again, and one way to incrase your retention of material
is to actively process it by summarizing it in your own words or at
least writing it down. If you are concerned about a Braille notetaker
or computer crashing, back up your notes regularly, even daily if you
want to. I find notetaking an extremely effective way to glean the
important points out of a piece of reading and then review only those
important points, instead  of having to go through the textbook over
and over again to review highlights. If I am missing something and you
actually know of a good reason  why highlighting is helpful, please
let me know so I  can give my students more balanced information.
Best,
Arielle

On 12/9/12, Hope Paulos <hope.paulos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you get the audio version of the book as well? A player like the 
> Victor
> reader stream will allow you to highlight things in audio format. You can
> even put a voice note to remind you of what the section is about. This may
> be handy while reading along in braille. Another option I used to do is 
> put
> paperclips on a specific section of Braille material. Unfortunately, this
> may get confusing because like with the dots, there'd be a lot of
> paperclips.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 9, 2012, at 12:32 PM, "Brandon Keith Biggs"
> <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am wondering if any kind of Braille highlighter has been invented yet?
>> Something that could change the texture of the page while still keeping
>> the Braille readable?
>> This has been something that all my teachers have been telling me to do
>> with my Braille books and music, as of now it is either write notes in
>> another device that may crash, or put not really accurate dots that can
>> fall off on the spot I want to mark. (Not to menschen that becomes a lot
>> of dots after a while).
>> So if anyone has ever encountered a Braille highlighter please let me
>> know!
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>>
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