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

Fri Jan 27 13:53:51 UTC 2012

Exactly Ashley. I always have the blind students do the best they can in
typing out what they hear, but detail is missed. The sighted student is
taking notes for themselves anyway, this just makes great additional notes
to add to what they already have, and then of course, they do better on
tests because of the extra detail.
Denise

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Ashley Bramlett
<bookwormahb at earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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<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<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<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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-- 
 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