[blindkid] How to chose a notetaker?

[Bernadette Jacobs]

On 5/13/12, Holly Baker Miller <hollym12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So...many...choices...
>
> Almost 12 yr old, going into 6th grade, fairly tech savvy, new braille user
> who has appropriate respect for expensive electronics.
> Only blind child in the district, this is new territory for everyone
> involved.
>
> Mom & Dad are also fairly tech savvy but not brilliantly so :::grin:::
>
> Would like to be able to pair with i-devices,  student has an ipod touch
> and there is a household i-pad.  District is discussing bringing i-pads
> into the classroom for all students.
> This is not a deal breaker, I would chose reliability over i-devices but
> the i-devices would be a nice touch.
>
> So wise ones, what would you suggest?  Perhaps more importantly, what would
> you suggest we avoid?
>
> Holly
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Hi Holly!

Have a couple suggestions for you.

1.  You could attach a blue tooth refreshable Braille Display for the
Braille part.  You could also use a blue tooth keyboard.  We're going
through the same thing with our 9-1/2 year-old daughter at MSB.  I
understand they're going to begin using Ipads for all the students
next year.

As for me, I'm so dismayed with the notetakers' world, I'll never have
a notetaker again because the maintenance agreements are over-priced.
For the last notetaker I had I had actually had it for two years with
upgraded software then found out that I had to have a hardware
agreement and needed enough to upgrade hardware that I could've bought
another new notetaker for cheaper!  Oh boy was I hot!  Down with
notetakers.  My idea for me personally, might be to do a netbook with
four-six gigs so I can install JAWS, use an earbud and be done with
it.  Why haul around all these extra keyboards, braille displays when
you can pack one thing up in one case and carry it
over-the-shoulder?What's the point of being portable if I need to haul
around an extra keyboard???  Oh Please!!

Bern