[Trainer-Talk] Very frustrated in training a newbie on iPhone

[Roanna Bacchus]

I had a private tutor who taught me to use the Iphone. I am glad that you gave your student homework to practice using his Iphone. I do not use Siri for everything.

On Jun 20, 2018 9:15 AM, Gerardo Corripio via Trainer-Talk <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> I hardly post on here, but as mentiond to you guys before, I'm a tech 
> instructor here in my area (though I haven't taken any formal classes on 
> the subject, but I love technology, and because of my Educational 
> Psychology major I'm confident this combo would be apt for this path); 
> also it's important to work on whatever is available for us the blind 
> here in Mexico! Anyway I'm starting with a 46-year-old newby to the 
> iPhone, and got the questions of 
>
> Is there some sort of an established lesson plan for teaching the iphone 
> I could follow? I taught him during our first meeting the basics of 
> left&right flicks and double-tap gestures to interact with the phone 
> screen, and left him homework to practice with; imagine to what degree 
> that he was recommended use Siri for everything? I mean it amazes me how 
> ignorant people are really! 
>
> When it comes times to teaching gestures, what's the best method for 
> this? I tried hand over hand, but kind of felt weird (don't know if it's 
> how we were seated or) so what's the best way to teach gestures? The 
> sighted wife was there with us, thus she saw what I was doing, and she 
> taught him, but it's not the same it feels like to me. 
>
> Lastly he's really ahving a hard time with the Pass code, and /or the 
> Finger-print reader; I plan to deactivate these while he gets used to 
> how it works. 
>
> So what would be the next steps? I plan to teach him next how to type on 
> the keyboard, which I set up as Touch typing (where you look for the 
> letter and lift up to type it) 
>
> Thanks for any tips you guys might have; it's getting very frustrating 
> to be honest with this first experience!. But I'm the type never to give 
> up. It makes me mad how ignorant people are: imagine the phone was used, 
> and it was never formatted back to factory settings, thus today I plan 
> to restore it and set it up as new. Thanks again for any tips/tricks. 
> I'm liking teaching one on one, but as I mentioned it's getting frustrating! 
>
> -- 
> Gera 
> Enviado desde Thunderbird 
>
>
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