[nabs-l] Fair/appropriate accomodations for assignments and tests involving videos

[Julie McGinnity]

Hi Miso,

As a German major, I have been confronted with the issues of videos in
the classroom as well.  There are a few things you can do.  To be
honest, whatever you do, you won't get the same thing out of the video
as the others do, but you can try to get accomidations to make it
better.

First, you can get a friend to read you the subtitles, which is
something you seem to be doing already.  This will be difficult
because your friend will probably try to read you the subtitles and
explain the movie at the same time.  You will miss things.  The other
thing you can do is get your teacher to provide you with a detailed
summary of the movie ahead of time, so you have an understanding of
the plot of the movie.  I have found this to be helpful.

I have noticed that movies are one of the biggest ways we are left
behind as blind students.  It is difficult to get accomidations to
fully supplement what the sighted students are learning from a movie
because either we miss it completely due to lack of description or we
learn it after the fact.

On 3/26/13, Miso Kwak <kwakmiso at aol.com> wrote:
> Being the only blind student in classroom, there are times when I feel
> like class activities are not suited for the visually impaired.
> There are just some times when I strongly feel like teachers don't
> consider enough about the only one blind student in his/her classrooms.
> One of those occasions is watching a video and doing follow-up
> activities.
> Currently, I am enrolled in Spanish 3 Honors class. In the class
> recently, we watched a movie and had to do 3 worksheets and a quiz in
> the end.
> The movie was entirely spoken in Spanish. There was English subtitle on
> the screen.
> When the class started watching the movie, teacher asked one of my
> friends to explain the storyline of the movie, so she did.
> I didn't understand thoroughly but I just grasped what was going on...
> I didn't do most of the worksheets because they didn't worth many
> points and I frankly didn't know what to write. If I were desperate for
> the points, I probably would have bs-ed.
> The teacher reviewed the movie and I asked some questions. Afterward I
> felt like I had a better understanding of the movie.
> Then there was a quiz. I felt prepared goinginto the quiz but when I
> took the quiz I was shocked because there were so much more than I
> previously had thought.
> For example, one of the questions asked who died in a ship. I didn't
> even know someone had died in a ship. It was just one of those details
> which neither my friend nor the teacher mentioned.
> There were couple more questions that made me realize I had missed so
> much.
> I am debating whether to confront my teacher about this matter or not.
> If you were in my situation, would you tell her that the test was
> unfair?
> When you have assignments involving videos what kinds of accomodations
> do you have?
> My aide who usually types materials into doc documents suggested she
> types the subtitle, I read the subtitle, and retake the test, which I
> think is reasonable...
> Miso
>
>
>
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Julie McG
National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National
Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President,
and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008
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