[Pibe-division] The Joy of Learning to Virtually Chat

[Mike Freeman]

I'd say you were corrupting the poor child! (grin)

 

Mike

 

 

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[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M.
Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:20 PM
To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List
Subject: [Pibe-division] The Joy of Learning to Virtually Chat

 


The Joy of Learning to Virtually Chat
<http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/09/joy-of-learning-to-virtually-c
hat.html>  


One of my high school students has been learning technology for awhile, but
because she did not start it until high school, she had no paradigm for how
technology worked, so struggled with using it. This year, it has started to
click in and she is really getting it. When she is learning a new skill on
the computer, she can start to figure out where I am going to take her and
what we are going to do. 

I have been telling her about Google chat for awhile, but she had so many
other areas that needed addressing that we were not able to start it until
today. With JAWS tandem I can connect and disconnect with just a keystroke,
so once I got her all set up, I told her we would just communicate through
chat and I was going to disconnect for a bit. We text each other back and
forth and as she was inputting her 5th response I quickly brought her
computer and her up again. The smile on that child's face lit up the room.

I told her that once she gets really good at it, that she can leave her
Gmail and chat box open all day. Whenever she does not know how to do
something, she can just text me and get an answer within seconds. I asked
her if she understood the power of this tool. "YEAH!!" was the quick
response. That incredible happy smile of JOY beaming throughout her will
warm me for quite some time. 

 

       Denise 

 

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor

Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training

509-674-1853     <mailto:deniserob at gmail.com>  deniserob at gmail.com

 

http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/

 

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