[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
There may possibly be another way of marking in breath marks, putting in a 
dynamic into the score and whatnot for a read through, but it hasn't been 
invented yet to my knowledge.
I just was wondering if anyone had ever heard of Braille highlighters 
before.
If not it may be something that should be created as it can never heart to 
get more tools at our disposal as students. And closer our tools are to what 
other class mates use, more our teacher can focus on teaching us and less 
time coming up with workarounds.
In a school where my longest class is 50 minutes, following the teacher's 
instructions to the T is imperative because he knows how students learn best 
and disrupting that flow for accommodations is only detrimental to me 
because I can't focus on the content 100% like I need to.
So I am looking for highlighters because all 11 of my classes this quarter 
had on the syllabus "Bring a highlighter, pencil and your script/score to 
class" Now I am at the end of the quarter I am realizing that my alternative 
techniques aren't working as well, so I'm looking for what the teacher 
requires.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Kirt Manwaring
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 12:05 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Brandon,
  As I've said before, I think overgeneralizing can be a problem.  I
suspect some students at ivy league schools have "textbooks full of
highlights", I imagine some are like Arielle and prefer to take notes
in separate documents; still, others might have editic memories and
barely glance at their textbooks.  (I suspect that group is a very
small minority.)  Anyways, my point is that it can be very detremental
to assume there is only one way to successfully do what you need to.
I'm sure all successful students don't rely on highlighting; I think
we have enough evidence from this list to know there are multiple good
ways to accomplish things.  I'm certainly not a music expert (that's
your arena), but I'd imagine there is probably another way to do what
you need.  Just a thought, take it for what it's worth.
  Best,
Kirt

On 12/9/12, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brandon,
> One thing which might work is putting placemarkers in your books. If
> you're reading books on the BrailleNote, you can insert placemarkers
> at the beginning of important paragraphs/sentences that you'll need
> later. Then, when you go back later, you can jump directly to that
> particular placemarker.
> Another suggestion you might try is this. If you're working with
> hardcopy Braille books, put a paperclip on the top of the page that
> you'll need for later. Then you'll open directly to that page and
> you'll know that the paragraph you need is right in front of you. Like
> Arielle, I find highlighting to be pretty useless. If I take notes on
> a book, I always just use a separate document. Well, hope that helped.
> Patrick
>
> On 12/9/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> No, I'm looking for something that I can use with Braille. Audio is not
>> something I can read aloud very easy or mark silently and quickly which
>> is
>> what I need to constantly be doing.
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hope Paulos
>> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 10:05 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
>>
>> 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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