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

[Gerardo Corripio]

Was your tutor also blind? What techniques did he show you for the 
gestures? Hand over hand?


El 20/06/2018 a las 08:40 a.m., Roanna Bacchus via Trainer-Talk escribió:
> 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!
>>
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