[nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer witha Tablet and handwriting software

Fri Jan 27 02:27:05 UTC 2012

Hi,
I think this is a wonderful idea! Blind students can and should take notes, 
but they cannot read the teacher's hand written notes on the board.
As a student who remembers high school well, I know teachers write and do 
not always announce what they write even though they know you need it 
spoken. Other times, students sit for a long time copying down notes such as 
terms to  study; the room is silent as everyone copies. I mean its not 
spoken by the teacher. In this case, I had a notetaker give the notes to my 
teacher of the vision inpaired and she brailled them or the teacher gave her 
a copy to braille for me. So Denise is right this is a real problem. IMO, it 
is less a problem in college via the lecture format of instruction. But in 
public school, there are many notes around that students are expected to get 
without the teacher speaking. Oh, this brings back many memories. I remember 
in chemistry, students had to copy notes at the beginning of class every 
day! The teacher briefly went over them afterward, but it was fast because 
she knew everyone had already copied them down.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:13 PM
To: 'National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer 
witha Tablet and handwriting software

Um, how is independence of blind students served by having others take notes
for them?

Also, it would appear to me that such a system would constrain the person
dragooned into taking notes to write in legibile English rather than in the
shorthand of abbreviations that virtually all of us used when taking notes.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:27 PM
To: Discussion about issues related to blindness; National Organization of
Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with a
Tablet and handwriting software

So I have been using the digimemo for some time now, really trying it out
to see if it is all that. Well, it IS all that. More importantly, I have
figured out how a blind person can do this all by themselves.

One of the greatest problems for blind students in school is how to get
handwritten notes as the teacher writes them in the front of the room. Now
they can get those notes on a digimemo and can translate them into text
that their talking software will read INDEPENDENTLY. They just hand the
writing tablet to a sighted student who is taking notes for themselves
anyway. They finish the notes, take their copy and hand the pad back to the
blind student. The blind student takes the pad and uses a computer to
translate the handwritten notes into text for themselves.

Yes, a para educator can do all this, but it will not make the student
independent and the para educator is not going to graduate and do all this
when for them in college or at their job. Using the*
DigiMemo<http://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-DigiMemo-692-Digital-Notepad/dp/B000
9OD4CS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327607962&sr=8-2>
* and the handwriting software now gives a blind person the opportunity to
get the information they need and translate the handwriting by themselves
using a computer.

If you would like to get an idea of how this works, watch this video from
start to finish and be Wowed. Yep, it is that impressive. Translate
Handwriting into Text on a computer with a Tablet and handwriting
software-audio/visual
lesson<http://www.yourtechvision.com/content/digital-handwriting-change-text
-computer-tablet-and-handwriting-software>

-- 
Denise

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision, LLC
Virtual Instructor for blind/low vision
509-674-1853

Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons all done with
keystrokes: www.yourtechvision.com

"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
doing it." --Chinese Proverb

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly
slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond
imagination.
--Albert Einstein

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
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