[nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

[Ashley Bramlett]

Brandon,
Yes professors are set inttheir ways. This is one of them. Students in that 
class have to for instance, see paragraph 2 on page 14.
I usually use audio formats so cannot use text to search.
I have tried to get the electronic copy, but as I said before, they give me 
pdfs which jaws has trouble reading.
Even if jaws reads it, I don't have page numbers since the book is broken 
down by chapters or parts.
Each part or chapter is a large file.
So its impossible to look at a book as others do.

I'm glad it worked for you, but I know with videos coupled with the reliance 
of books, it is a tough teaching style to follow.

I just hate when professors are not willing to talk to you and go to the dss 
office.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:17 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

Hello,
I had a superstar professor who did this. He was an older guy and he was
very set in his ways. He had about 2000 students on his Corse load and he
was also an international star. He said I would probably fail his class
because he used lots of pictures and he wrote lots on the board. He also
said that I would not benefit from the top notch pictures he both presented
in front of the class and had in the textbook he wrote. He told my
Disability counselor he was not sure how I would deal with the pop quizzes.
On top of that, I was an honors student who had a steeper grading scale than
the normal students.
I told him not to worry, if he was willing to listen to me, we could work
something out. I took the head of the Accessibility department to one of his
office hours and we hammered him with every problem a week after class
started and we gave solutions. We also presented alternatives for him to
choose from. He then gave us his opinions and what he was willing to do.
I talked to the professor every week and just made sure things were going
well on his part. I ended up getting an easy A in that class and that was
one of my favorite classes I have ever taken.
May I ask why you can't read paragraphs other students are reading? I just
do a search for words in my word document.
Teacher tells us to look at page 45, paragraph 7 that starts "He looked to
where her boots lay in the mud..."
I search for that and it only takes a second to search through the whole
book.
Thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs


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