[nabs-l] Professor's Recorded PowerPoints Lectures on Blackboard

Robin robin-melvin at comcast.net
Sun Jan 12 14:40:22 UTC 2014


Thank you, Miss Helga for passing along that tip 
about accessing content (video) bedded within 
blackboard, it is greatly appreciated!

At 05:54 PM 1/11/2014, you wrote:
>Hi Robin, this is Helga. How are you? I just 
>wanted to tell you that I actually find a way to 
>solve my problem in how to access my videos on 
>Blackboard. I think that this probably help you, 
>or anyone else who needs it as well! Just to let 
>you know my brother who is sighted helps me save 
>the video on the computer, and then he downloads 
>it in Windows media player, and then he created 
>a folder for me called Video Lectures Folder, 
>and after he did that he placed the video there. 
>Once you have your video in your folder, you can 
>press enter on it, and then Windows Media Player 
>opens automatically. So in order to play a video 
>on Windows Media Player, you press control P, to 
>pause a video, you press control P as well, in 
>order to rewine the Video, you press control 
>shift B, and in order to fast forward the video, 
>you press control shift F. Of course yu will 
>need help with this, yu will need someone who is 
>sighted to help you save the video to yur 
>computer, and accomplish the other steps that I 
>mention before, but once yu are in Windows Media 
>Player, you can do the steps I told you. You 
>could probably ask for a family member, a 
>friend, or a class mate at school in order for 
>them to help yu with this. Hoep this helps for 
>now. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks and God 
>bless!! :) P.S. I will try to find out from my 
>brother if I can do all this steps for myself, 
>and then I'll share it with all of you ok? 
>Thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: 
>Robin Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 8:59 AM 
>To: National Association of Blind Students 
>mailing list Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Professor's 
>Recorded PowerPoints Lectures on Blackboard I am 
>sorry that I forgot to mention how I was able to 
>access the video content posted to blackboard. I 
>enlisted the aid of Ol'Sighty (a sighted person) 
>to locate the pause/play buttons as well as the 
>transcripts of the video content in question. I 
>may be in the same boat this upcoming 
>semester/term, and I may also enlist the aid of 
>a sighted person (Ol'Sighty) if I am unable to 
>uncover how to access this content from a 
>blindness perspective, but I will press the 
>university about the difficulty I am 
>experiencing. Good Luck with your blackboard 
>course! If you find a suitable way to access the 
>blackboard content (video), please pass it along 
>on this list because I am sure there are others, 
>who will probably benefit as much as I will. At 
>11:32 PM 1/10/2014, you wrote: >Hi, this is 
>Helga. I just wanted to ask you, What do you 
>think I should do >about the lecture videos? 
>What did you do in order to access them? 
>Just >curious!! Also, I just wanted to tell you 
>that I didn't see  any enlisted >thing that you 
>mention regarding in how to play or pause a 
>Lecture video in >this message. I will really 
>appreciate it a lot, if you could help me 
>with >this. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks 
>so much and God bless!! :) P.S. I >forgot to ask 
>you, do you know how to download Windows Media 
>Player in an >iPhone, or any apple device? Just 
>wondering, since I actually log in 
>to >Blackboard using my iPhone, and I found my 
>Professor's Recorded Powerpoint >Lecture, but it 
>didn't play the video, instead the iPhone show 
>the video as >a WMB link. Thanks again for all 
>your time! ;) Sent from my iPhone > On Jan >11, 
>2014, at 1:49 AM, Robin 
><robin-melvin at comcast.net> wrote: > > I 
>have >also experienced the same difficulty with 
>blackboard as you have described, >and I 
>enlisted the aid of Ol'Sighty to pause/play the 
>video content posted >as well as access the 
>transcripts of the video. > > At 01:50 PM 
>1/10/2014, >you wrote: >> Hi guys, this is 
>Helga. How are you all? I just wanted to >tell 
>you that for my Introduction of Government class 
>my Government >Professor has his recorded 
>Powerpoints Lectures on Blackboard. Sometime 
>I >find the link to it, but sometimes I 
>don̢۪t, but when it it comes to play 
>the >lecture, I press enter on it, and it goes 
>on, but when I want to stop it, I >can̢۪t. J. 
>Just to let you know, one of my family members 
>stops the lecture >by clicking on it with the 
>mouse. Actually, I know the lecture is 
>somewhere >located in Lesson modules. I just 
>wanted to ask you, do you ever experience >this 
>kind of problem when your professor puts 
>somekind of Lectures in >Blackboard? And do you 
>know how to play or pause a Recorded 
>Powerpoint >Lecture with JAWS? Just curious! I 
>will really appreciate it a lot, if you >could 
>help me and give me some suggestions regarding 
>this. Hope to hear >from you soon. Thanks so 
>much and God bless!!  P.S. By the way, I forgot 
>to >ask you, do you think I should access the 
>recorded powerpoint lectures on >my iPhone? By 
>using my iPhone, do you think would it be easier 
>in playing >and stopping the the recorded 
>Powerpoint Lecture? Just curious! I will >really 
>like to know your opinion about this, since this 
>is my first time >using Blackboard, and since my 
>Professor will always have his 
>recorded >Lectures on Blackboard for this entire 
>semester! Thanks again  for all your >time! 
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