[nabs-l] A possible outreach idea

[Jewel]

I might be willing to work on the section on assistive technology, especially the that for the totally blind. I know a bit about technology, having used it in college myself and having researched it for my blog and for others.
-Jewel

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On Jun 28, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Anjelina Cruz <anjelinac26 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm still interested in working to create such a booklet for high
> school and college students. This is quite a huge idea, and if
> something like this already exists then it'd be best if we don't
> reinvent the wheel. I'm not sure about high schools, but the college I
> attended had other students who were visually impaired but they
> weren't able to obtain information from the DS office about assistive
> technology and struggled with magnifiers and enlarged screens. Rather
> then depending on the DS office or rehab to offer we have this list,
> but I'm sure where is a large number of students we could reach with a
> booklet. Are there more thoughts on this?
> Any disagreement? Who would be interested and willing to invest time
> in getting this off the ground?
> Thanks :)
> 
> On 6/23/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I like the idea of tailoring it to reach certain populations too.
>> Perhaps a high school book and then a college and beyond book would be
>> cool?
>> 
>> We'd just need a good start on it.  I like and agreee with all the
>> ideas that have been said on this thread thus far.
>> 
>> On 6/20/13, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
>>> I like it. How do we start? If there was enough interest we could create
>>> specific books for specic populations such as high school
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 6:14 PM, "justin williams"
>>> <justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That's great.  Outstanding.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anjelina
>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 5:29 PM
>>>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: [nabs-l] A possible outreach idea
>>>> 
>>>> Good evening fellow students, I have an idea which is been rolling
>>>> around
>>>> my
>>>> head. If my idea is totally off the mark feel free to say so. I'm also
>>>> open
>>>> to constructive feedback.
>>>> I understand the students we are extremely busy especially during the
>>>> semester. As most of you may know, the blind parents division Created a
>>>> handbook which can be distributed to anyone who is interested in topics
>>>> related to blind parents. I have found it to be a very helpful resource
>>>> to
>>>> pass out to sighted people who have questions about how I do things as a
>>>> parent who is blind. Could we All work together to create a similar
>>>> handbook? This handbook could be distributed to universities or even
>>>> rehab
>>>> agencies. It's something such as this already exists, I'd be interested
>>>> in
>>>> checking out the resource. If not, we could Discuss general student
>>>> needs.
>>>> I'm pretty sure there is a broader scope of students that we haven't
>>>> reached
>>>> especially those were not on the listserv. What do you all think? I'm
>>>> curious to hear feedback. Thanks for reading and entertaining this idea.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from Anjelina's iPhone
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