[nabs-l] problems with a spanish assignment

[Lillie Pennington]

Thank you. I will talk to my teacher and see what I can do.

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> On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lillie,
> 
> I'm not sure what the other options are for assignments, but it seems
> like the teacher should be able to give you one that's accessible.
> Perhaps she could send you a file for one of the web-based assignments
> that's not accessible, or create a separate assignment for you. It's
> listening you're being tested on, so that doesn't have to be visual at
> all. I'd suggest either emailing your teacher or talking to her in
> person (or both) to see what the two of you can come up with. You can
> definitely agree on an assignment that's equivalent in terms of
> difficulty and stuff being tested on, but that doesn't include the
> visual questions or the inaccessible online quizzes.
> 
> Best,
> Arielle
> 
>> On 3/24/14, Lillie Pennington <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>> 
>> In my Spanish 3 class, we have listening homework that is due every two
>> weeks or so. The options are mostly very tedious or inaccessible. I was
>> doing online textbook work with sited assistance for reading the screen
>> until my teacher stopped putting assignments on that site as an option. I
>> believe her reason for not doing this was because she did not have time, or
>> that is what she said for one chapter when they were not up there. I took
>> advantage of a new assignment that was available as an option. It was
>> watching a youtube video made by students in her class last year. The video
>> then had some comprehension questions on a timed quiz in Spanish which
>> someone would read to me.
>> 
>> However, the questions mainly had some visual concepts. Such as what item
>> was not in a persons suitcase. My mother had some issues seeing the video
>> picture and I was providing the best translations of the video that I could
>> in English.
>> 
>> It is difficult to rely on someones descriptions of something that I can
>> not
>> see. I had 15 seconds left on the quiz by the time I was finished with it.
>> 
>> I do not know what to do. I am not sure if this is significant enough to
>> email my teacher about. I am not sure what I can really ask my teacher to
>> do. My TVI will be no help in this situation. Should I just take the grade
>> and suck it up? I am not asking to get out of the assignment. I am just
>> asking for questions that require the person to pay attention to the video.
>> For example, instead of what did Trevor pack in his suitcase, something
>> like
>> where did the boys agree to meet at 7:00. Is this an appropriate request?
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
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