[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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