[nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
There is a pretty simple way of converting PDF to TXT:
when you open the PDF go to
"save as other"
hit text
Enter the name and location and there you go.
Also, ask the disability center for a .doc and they should be accommodating, 
I've never heard of one that wasn't for that.
There are a million other ways to get a PDF to TXT, but that is first.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Misty Dawn Bradley
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:45 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

Hi,
If you are able to get the book from Learning Ally, the books are set up to
where you can set them to go page by page, by chapter, by heading, or by
sentence, so this may help with at least finding the page number, and then
if you go by sentence or if there is a paragraph setting then you may be
able to find the paragraph easier.
Hth,
Misty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] unaccommodating professors


> 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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