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

Fri Jan 27 14:00:33 UTC 2012

Exactly Albert

This helps anyone and all who need additional help with taking
notes...especially those pesky ones put on a board in the front of the room
Denise

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Albert J Rizzi <albert at myblindspot.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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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."
>
>
> Visit us on Facebook LinkedIn
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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
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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