[nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi,
but do you know if this conversation program works on locked files? I would 
think not.
I assume the cloud means the robo site.

-----Original Message----- 
From: wmodnl wmodnl
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:12 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

You can send the PDF files to the cloud to convert them to microsoft word or
audio files, broken-down in chapters, or sections.  You can visit:
www.robobraille.org.
There are simple upload instructions for doing this.  Finally, you can open
the files in a OCR program such as Kurswheil or Open-book, to save them as
word files.
Hope this helps.


Sent from my iPad

On Jan 12, 2013, at 12:36 AM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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