[nabs-l] A Question for the College Students

Wed Nov 19 18:02:55 UTC 2014

Yes, but somehow, I couldn't get the f7 to do what it did in word.  Like I
had to go slide by slide or something. I used spell check while it was in
word, but I'm not sure what happened when I copied it over to the powerpoint
presentation.

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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Question for the College Students

I'm going to comment on a few other things if that's okay.  Cindy  has a
great point about google apps.  I don't know them and wish that I did.
Powerpoint is different though; I was lucky enough to get extensive MS
office training early, so powerpoint is pretty eawsy once you're familiar
with it.  (Justin and all, do you know you can still use the F7 key to
spell-check powerpoint documents)?  I used to worry about the visual
display, but any more there are pre-designed themes that come loaded into
the document.  If you get someone to describe them once, you can have a few
in your back pocket to pick and choose from independently.  E.G, two of my
favorite designs are Newsprint and Apex).  I just recently made a
powerpoint, and it was so great to just pick Newsprint and only have to
worry about the writing.  Sighted students do this too, so there's no shame
in using the set themes.

Cane travel is key.  Each university is different, but I'd definitely
recommend making sure you're comfortable with crossing busy roads if you
aren't already.  I crossed my first four lane road my freshman year, and
although I'm a good cane traveler it just threw me off since I had never
crossed such a wide street with so many cars before.

Another big piece of advice I would offer is don't be ashamed to use
readers.  I'm a huge stickler for braille and doing things myself, but there
really are times when using a scribe or dictating information to your
professors is just the more practical option.  I am taking a pretty
difficult upper-level music theory course now, which requires me to graph
music to analyze it.  My professor suggested that I find another way to
write notes throughout the test, since I was flipping between programs on my
computer constantly.  I lugged my perkins brailler across campus to do it,
but it still took me forever and I had to dictate the braille to him
afterwards.  In some ways, doing it in this method made me more confused,
since I couldn't correct mistakes in braille as easily as I could on the
computer.  The prof just said that it might be best to dictate from then on.
At first I hesitated because I wanted to do my own work, but he was good
about telling me in nicer terms to get over myself and accept his offer to
be my scribe.  In this case, I have to admit he was right.  My last test was
completed in the same time as everyone else, which has never happened
before, and I got the highest grade on my tests thus far because I could
catch mistakes without being confused about what the braille said.

On 11/19/14, Joshua Hendrickson via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi to Chris and all.  I agree with a lot of what has already been 
> stated.  Do not be afraid to ask for the help you need in completing 
> your class assignments, and doing things like taking tests.  Also, 
> while in college, I'd suggest learning the routes to your classes as 
> soon as you can.  For the first couple years in college, I found 
> students or other teachers to take me to where I needed to go.  I wish 
> I hadn't done this.  When I finally learned my routes mainly because I 
> wanted to do so, things became a lot easier.  If you know the way to 
> your classes and other buildings on campus, you can just go very 
> easily to where ever you need to go.  You don't have to try and find 
> someone to help you find a certain class, and worry that you might be 
> late for the beginning of a lecture.  Also, if your college has a 
> tutoring service, I'd suggest taking full advantage of it.  Tutoring 
> is how I was able to make it through my college math classes.  Also 
> working on independent living skills is also a very good thing to work 
> on.  I wish I had worked on this more.  Good luck.  It is a great 
> thing to have a list where students can ask advice of one another.
>
> On 11/19/14, Roanna Bacchus via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi Chris hope things are going well.  I wish I would have worked more 
>> on my independent living skills in high school.
>>
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