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

Wed Mar 27 14:57:22 UTC 2013

Miso and everyone, while the suggestions given to you are good, 
I've had these video assignments too. Lots of times, the 
following questions have to do with the major parts of the video, 
not the minor subtleties. I've never had videos in foreign 
languages, so I can't speak for those, but for those in other 
subjects, listening to the dialogue should be enough to do the 
following activities.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com
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Date sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:30:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Fair/appropriate accomodations for 
assignments andtests involving videos

Hi,

I've had similar issues both in Spanish and other classes.  I 
like
your aid's suggestion of giving you the subtitles in a document 
for
you to read along with the Spanish; I did something similar with
spanish videos myself.

If you choose to have a friend sit with you and explain the 
movie,
make sure they're someone who can fluently read the subtitles.
Explain that they can explain things about the movie that aren't
covered in the dialogue, but that they should wait for an 
opportune
time to do theese like when no one is talking and there are no
subtitles to be read.  If those opportunities are scarce, have 
them
run through the plot with you after the movie when they're not 
worried
about cramming in the explanation along with the subtitles.  Ask 
them
to be detailed.  They don't need to give you every single bit of
information, but something as significant as someone dying on a 
ship
might be worth mentioning.  If you choose this route you can also 
jot
down questions on a notetaker as you're watching the movie so you 
can
go over them later.  I did a mix of these methods last semester; 
for
my intro to the university class we had to watch a few movies, 
one
documentary and one fictional film about a violin protegy, about 
the
music from China.  Both times I had the TA for my class sit with 
me
and read the Chinese subtitles.  Luckily, she's a very observant
student and a great reader, and I actually didn't even have to 
tell
her when to describe things as she naturally felt the best time 
to
describe what happened in the previous sceen would be during a 
musical
part of the movie when no one was talking.  In such cases, you 
might
get all the information you need just because the person reading 
to
you is awesome at it.

I'd definitely go to your teacher about it though.  I'm sure if 
you
explain the situation they would at least throw out the questions 
you
got wrong or didn't answer because you couldn't have answered 
them
correctly from your test to make it fair, especially if the 
teacher
didn't even remember to tell you all the things you would be 
tested
on.

Good luck.

On 3/26/13, Julie McGinnity <kaybaycar at gmail.com> wrote:
 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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