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

Fri Jan 27 14:25:27 UTC 2012

Denise,

Your point of what the teacher puts up on the board is an important one for
sure. I remember watching some students take copious notes, something I did
not do. I noted what the teacher put up on the board, and took notes here
and there based upon the lecture. Notes taking is personal and allowing our
students of all abilities to control and manage that aspect of their
educational growth serves to make them stronger students and one day
stronger leaders.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
Founder
My Blind Spot, Inc.
90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:01 AM
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

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.
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----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
>
>
>
> -----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
>
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>
> "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
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>
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> imagination.
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>
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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
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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.
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