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

Fri Jan 27 04:07:36 UTC 2012

Ashley,

Yes, this allows for a student who wants to take their own notes to do so.
However, I am thinking about your point about the notes on the board, or
white board. If this technology allows for the notes to be taken by a
student, i am thinking that the same technology can be applied to the white
board, and all students of all  abilities with or without a print disability
would be able to benefit from the teachers notes on the board. Makes me
think about making a call. Thanks for the inspiration.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
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-----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 10:54 PM
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computerwitha
Tablet and handwriting software

Albert,
So are you saying this special pen allows you to write normally on a notepad

sold with the pen and save the notes as a text file?
How cool! Kind of like the wonderful tablet Denise wrote about.
I support students taking and writing their own notes, but there are times 
where you need notes from the board; and the way you get that is by the 
teacher writing them and giving them to your teacher of the vision impaired 
or a student writing them.
I know some teachers make students write down notes before they even speak. 
They expect everyone to write it for later reference and the class is quiet 
as people write.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Albert J Rizzi
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:26 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

One and all,

There is a technology out there that would and could all at once  satisfy
everyone, while promoting independence. It is called the echo smart pen. It
is sold with a note pad, that when used in combination  with the pen or
stylus allows any student to write what notes they want, and then have them
recorded in a micro chip in the pen, that will allow the writer to down load
the hand written notes to a computer in a text format that allows the
student of any age, provided they can write independently, to take control
over their own sense and need in determining the importance of what the
teacher is saying, when taking notes. It is under $200 and sold at target.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
Founder
My Blind Spot, Inc.
90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
New York, New York  10004
www.myblindspot.org
PH: 917-553-0347
Fax: 212-858-5759
"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
doing it."

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of 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

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slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond
imagination.
--Albert Einstein

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--Walt Disney
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