[blindkid] compose and edit without electronics

[Carol Castellano]

Little pieces of Wikki Stix are also good for marking places in the draft.
Carol

At 04:44 PM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
>Joy,
>
>One probably has to think out of the box a little on this as most 
>correction systems are fairly visual in nature, underling, using 
>post-its, and such.  What I usually did,
>many, many years ago, was to write my initial draft in 
>braille.  Next, I would read my draft onto a cassette tape at that 
>time making revisions as I read so my recorded
>copy contained the next draft.  The recorded copy could then be copy 
>with the aid of a foot peddle into print using a typewriter.  In 
>theory, though, I could have
>copied my revised work back into braill and performed several 
>itterations of this process.  The advantage of reading into a 
>recording is that it allowed me to type
>while keeping my hands on the keys.  Copying directly from braille 
>is a pain because of constantly moving one's hands between braille 
>and keyboard.  Since I found
>recording to be helpful in the eventual copying process, I took 
>advantage of the recording step to make additional revisions.
>
>One could do this now with a small digital recorder.  If one uses 
>the recording capabilities of a VR Stream or a BookSense, one can 
>play back the recording at a
>slower rate which can allow one to type without the use of a 
>start/stop foot peddle.
>
>The process of making corrections will probably change once the full 
>editing capability of the PacMate is mastered.  It probably doesn't 
>make sense to make this too
>complicated since it is a short term solution.  Still, Marking a 
>braille line to indicate that a correction is needed with a stylus 
>can work but any way of tactile marking
>will do the job including tearing out a little piece on the margin 
>since this isn't a final copy.  If there are a lot of corrections 
>and they are complicated, marking the line
>and then writing notes about corrections on a separate sheet of 
>paper indicating page and line numbers would work.  As one gains 
>experience with writing, though,
>one can learn to combine steps.
>
>I hope that something here is of help.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Steve Jacdobson
>
>
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:49 -0500, Joy Orton wrote:
>
> >Hi friends,
> >I would like to hear how some of you or your children compose and edit
> >essays, stories, letters, and so on, without high-tech gadgets. I am old
> >enough to remember typing, cutting and pasting (literally), and re-typing my
> >papers. Has anyone out there done this in braille?
> >Related question: How do you mark corrections on the draft to change in the
> >final copy? We are trying to produce an outline and speech for a school
> >project, and an essay for a contest. Ahbee has written great first drafts of
> >them. Now how do we mark our corrections, change around sentences, add
> >ideas, etc.?
> >We have not learned to do this on the PacMate, and it is at school. So I
> >really want a low-tech method. I'm sure there was a way to edit with a slate
> >and stylus--at least we have a Perkins braillewriter. (smile)
>
> >Joy Orton
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Carol Castellano, President
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