[nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching Englishas asecondlanguage)

Mon Dec 29 09:43:58 UTC 2014

HI,
  Actually, it is just a comments feature that allows you to add comments into Word (I do not know of a grading feature in Word) and provides visual information for sighted users to see where the comments you placed are located and what they refer to.

  I am not quite sure about later versions of Word since I primarily use 2003 since I have found JAWS to not work to my liking with later versions of Word. In 2003 you just hit alt+i followed by m and this brings you into a comment bubble that you can type in. It works best if you are in the print view. When you want to leave the bubble you just hit escape and it takes you right back to where you were. If you want to comment on a specific part of the text, you need to highlight (a.g., shift+control+arrow keys and then do an alt+i followed by m. I have found that sometimes students using later versions of Word than I am using have to change their view. Thus, if they can not see your comments suggest this as a possibility.

  If you want to make changes to your comment after hitting escape, go to the  location in the text where you placed the comment and hit the applications key on the keyboard. This does a right mouse click and brings up a list which should include the ability to both edit and delete the comment.
HTH.
Have a wonderful holiday,
Chris
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From: Jasmine Kotsay [jasmine.kotsay at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:41 AM
To: Szostak, Christine; National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching Englishas       asecondlanguage)

Hi,
        Could you explain how to use the grading feature in
Word? I had a teacher try to put their comments in the Grading
feature, but it was not accessible.  How do you use it?
 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Szostak, Christine via nobe-l" <nobe-l at nfbnet.org
To: Karl Martin Adam <kmaent1 at gmail.com>, "National Organization
of BlindEducators Mailing List" <nobe-l at nfbnet.org>, Ashley
Bramlett<bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Date sent: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 06:53:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching Englishas
asecondlanguage)

Yes, on-line grading is fabulous.  I use it all the time by
having students just email papers or submit them to electronic
boards.  I tend to dislike the one we are using at my university
so I use email primarily.  It works fabulously, and the comments
feature in Word is quite handy and seems to be  great for the
students.
Have a wonderful holiday!
Chris
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From: nobe-l [nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Karl Martin
Adam via nobe-l [nobe-l at nfbnet.org]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 7:33 PM
To: Ashley Bramlett; National Organization of Blind Educators
Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching English
as      asecondlanguage)

Hi Ashley,

I don't know much about the k-12 system, but at least in college
there is a trend toward paperless classrooms that makes it a lot
easier for blind people to grade papers.  Students are required
to word process their papers anyway, so it's just as easy for
them to e-mail in their papers or submit them to a course
management system, and it saves them printing costs.  It works
really well for us because of course a blind person can comment
on a digital paper just the way a sighted person can.

Best,
Karl

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ashley Bramlett via nobe-l <nobe-l at nfbnet.org
To: "Emily Michael" <emily.k.michael at gmail.com>,"National
Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List" <nobe-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:38:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching English
as asecondlanguage)

Emily,
haven't seen you before.
How long have you taught writing? Do you have a mastters in
english?

How do you read and correct student papers? Normally professors
write
comments between the lines since papers are double spaced, and
also in
margins.

Nice to see you're on list.

Ashley
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Michael via nobe-l
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 9:55 AM
To: Andy and Miranda -- Compassion Calling ; National
Organization of Blind
Educators Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] New member introduction (Teaching English
as a
secondlanguage)

Hi Miranda,

Nice to meet you! My name is Emily, and I teach college writing
courses.  I?™ve
taught grammar workshops for multilingual learners, which I
really enjoy! I
love interacting with our international students, and I?™m
always up for
talking shop.

With best,
Emily
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 On Dec 27, 2014, at 12:11 AM, Andy and Miranda -- Compassion
Calling via
 nobe-l <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Hello,

 My name is Miranda, and I am currently assisting in an English
as a second
 language (ESL) class for adult English language learners (ELL's)
in my
 local
 community.  I am studying to teach ESL as part of my college
education, and
 I
 am completely blind.  I have joined this list to connect with
other
 teachers
 who are visually impaired, and to possibly connect with anyone
who is
 teaching in the same subject area as well.

 Thank you, and I wish each of you a Happy New Year!

 --Miranda

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