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

Fri Jan 27 03:29:49 UTC 2012

One more thing. Teaching styles have changed. In public school with high 
stakes tests, its very important for students to get the copied notes from 
the board. When I was in school it was a blackboard or overhead; now its 
usually a white board. In any case, the student needs those notes. Often you 
need them for the state Standards of learning, SOL, tests.
My accomodation was to get a copy of the teacher's notes and my teacher of 
the vision impaired brailled them.
Higher grades foster more critical thinking and less memorization, but still 
notes might need to be copied down word by word in certain circumstances.
For instance when we learned grammar in seventh and eith grade english, I 
needed these notes word by word.
Now with this new thing Denise found, a sighted student can write them and 
the blind student has them much more faster.

I agree students need to be assertive, but that only goes so far.
School moves fast; in middle and high school, you have seven periods to 
attend. So students need to get the most out of it.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:05 PM
To: 'National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computerwith 
a Tablet and handwriting software

I never had much of a problem getting handwritten notes. If the verbal
explanations weren't sufficiently clear, I made enough of a pest of myself
that they *became* clear. That wasn't necessary very often, though.

I do remember one time when I came into an electricity and magnetism physics
class a couple minutes late and a sighted fellow student told me later that
the explanations became one hundred percent clearer the moment I walked in
the door.

There's no substitution for assertiveness.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Ashley Bramlett
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:31 PM
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with
a Tablet and handwriting software

Also, this fosters independence because it does not rely on a sighted vision

teacher or para educator.
Still I don't understand how such a thing works. Can this thing interpret
cursive? What if the screen is full after you wrote on it? Is there a way to

flip screens, kind of like turning to a blank loose leaf page? sounds cool.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:26 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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