[Social-sciences-list] [BlindAcademics] Math Teaching Techniques

[Cary Supalo]

Arielle,
I use Power Point slides for lots of my lectures. Further, book 
publishers make available to teachers pre-drawn slides. I work with a 
reader to select the ones I want to use from the database the 
publisher provides. I can then supplement these slides with other 
ones I have made.
I then use hard copy Braille for the text on the slides. I run the 
presentation using a text-to-speech screen reader. I want to try 
using the ViewPlus Iveo with tactile drawings of phase diagrams and 
other 2d visuals. I will have to add text descriptions to the 
graphics which are already Braille labeled of additional details to 
be mentioned. I have not done this yet, but this is something I 
intend to try before to long.
Hope this helps.
Cary
At 08:42 PM 11/8/2012, Arielle Silverman wrote:
>Hi all,
>I was just curious whether any of you have experience teaching
>quantitative subjects at the college level (i.e. math, chemistry,
>statistics etc.) and if so, could you share a little bit about any
>alternative methods you use for teaching sighted students? As a
>soon-to-be psychology Ph.D. I am qualified to teach statistics
>courses, but I've observed that at least at the introductory level, a
>lot of the content is traditionally presented in a very visual way,
>i.e. with histograms, emphasis on the graphical properties of
>probability distributions, etc. I didn't learn that way myself and so
>I'm a little lost as to how I would present this kind of material in a
>way that is accessible to sighted students. How have you handled these
>kinds of issues?
>Best,
>Arielle
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