[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
Sarah
coastergirl92 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 00:42:56 UTC 2012
Hello,
I am trying to find sites similar to the zonebbs.com. I was
banned from there in 2010 and they won't let me come back. It's
the only good social networking site for the blind I can go on on
the BrailleNote. Thanks
Sarah and Wizard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon Keith Biggs" <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:40:29 -0800
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
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
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account
info for
nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/hope.paulos%4
0gmail.com
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account
info for
nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/brandonkeithb
iggs%40gmail.com
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account
info for
nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/ptrck.molloy%
40gmail.com
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account
info for
nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/kirt.crazydud
e%40gmail.com
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
for
nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/brandonkeithb
iggs%40gmail.com
_______________________________________________
nabs-l mailing list
nabs-l at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
for nabs-l:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/coastergirl92
%40gmail.com
More information about the NABS-L
mailing list