[Social-sciences-list] Blind Academics

[Mike Moore]

Hello,

Something I used while completing my teaching certificate was to use
PowerPoint and if necessary, include text on the slide in the same colour as
the background.  This allowed for you to receive some additional notes,
which you can listen to using Bluetooth headphones, without your students
knowledge of its presence.

Just an additional tip.

Kind regards,

Mike 

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   1. Re: [BlindAcademics] Math Teaching Techniques (Cary Supalo)


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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:26:14 -0500
From: Cary Supalo <cas380 at gmail.com>
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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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