[nabs-l] Please help; textbook problem

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Kaiti,

This might not work for something due tomorrow, but for future
chapters before the book is ready, could you send an email around to
your class asking if a student wants to pair up with you and read you
the material in exchange for a pizza or other small favor? If they
have to read the chapter and do the assignment anyway, it's not a huge
burden for them, and as you are a good student, you can help them
study and also compensate them for their time.

Arielle

On 1/15/14, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
> If you want to remain current with the material and don't have the book,
> you
> could find out what the material is about and read a Wikipedia or do some
> sort of other research so you are knolledgible about the topic. Then you
> can
> get the chapter and read it afterwords. This isn't a perfect solution, but
> I
> have used it with history. Granted, there may be more graphics with bio,
> but
> at least in my honors biology class I didn't need to use pictures as more
> of
> a supplementary source.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:42 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Please help; textbook problem
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if anyone would know of some way to fix a problem I'm having
> with one of my textbooks.  I get text files of each chapter emailed to me
> from the Office of Learning Resources.  I am taking biology 101 this
> semester, and for some reason that book isn't done yet.  My disability
> coordinator sent me the first 7 chapters of the book so I could have a good
> start.  The first chapter file was fine, but when I opened the second to do
> my pre-lecture for chapter 2 it appeared that the office had hurried and
> scanned the book 2 pages at a time rather than 1.  This file is unusable
> because parts of sentences from side-by-side pages are jumbled together.  I
> have already sent an email asking for the chapter and another from the
> batch
> that was the same way to be redone propperly and sent to me as soon as
> possible, but the pre-lecture for that chapter is due tomorrow in class.  I
> have also already asked my professor for an extension should I need to use
> it, and I have also had issues with the online course management not
> showing
> resources she says she can see on her account fine.  I have asked the
> office
> to look into it as an accessibility issue, or to see if something is wrong
> with my account.
>
> I would like to just get the pre-lecture done if I can though, so I was
> wondering if anyone would happen to know of a way I could somehow separate
> the 2 side-by-side pages so I can get the chapter in order?
> I have not heard of a way to do this myself, but would really appreciate it
> if someone had a potential solution I could use so I don't fall behind in
> the first week of the semester.
>
> --
> Kaiti
>
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