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many out there are in school districts where a smart board or
Promethean board with flipcharts are used? These are graphic pictures
that anyone with sight can easily see, but to a blind student, it is
empty space. Many paraeducators have to take the pictures and turn them
into text or braille for the blind student to read. There is the long
way to do this, typing one character at a time ( as you cannot copy the
images) or a fast way.</div>
<div>Here is the fast way. You can download a personal viewer from the
company to load on your machine. Open the viewer then the flipchart, go
to file, then to print. When the print box opens, you will see the "save
as PDF" so save it as such. Place a folder on the desktop with these
PDF files, so they are easy to find, especially if you are going to
teach the blind student how to do this, and after all, that is what we
want. Open Openbook or Kurzweil and go to open file. Go find the file on
your desktop and have your OCR program open it. After it opens, go to
launch it into Word and it opens in Word. All the great text is there.
Now be aware, all those pictures will not translate...they will turn out
as a list of letters and symbols, so just go through and delete out
what was meant for a picture. Now, all that needs to be done is those
pictures are created 3-D by the para to go with this work.</div>
<div>One huge advantage I have discovered is on test day, the students can
use their notes. If the flipcharts are in text format, then the blind
student can do a quick "find" command on their computer and jump to the
theorem they need ....actually faster than a sighted student pouring
through their notes visually. Once they have the theorem, they alt+tab
back to the exam and continue on answering all the problems.</div>
<div>Now this is just 1 way, but where there is a will there is a way to make the world more accessible</div><div>Watch video for more detailed instruction: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87ZgcFYcZE">Smart Board</a><br></div>
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class="tab"></span><span class="tab"></span><span class="tab"><br></span></div><div>Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br>CEO, TechVision, LLC<br><span>Specialist in technology, teaching, training for blind/low vision</span><br>509-674-1853<br><br>Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons all done with <br>keystrokes to educate blind/low vision: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.yourtechvision.com/">www.yourtechvision.com </a><br><br>"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is<br> doing it." --<cite>Chinese Proverb</cite><br><br>Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.<br><cite>--Albert Einstein</cite><br><br>It's kind of fun to do the impossible.<br><cite>--Walt Disney</cite></div></div></body></html>