Tery and listers: Point well taken. Back when I was in high school and college if it came to an essay question wel out came the typewriter. When I took my Communications Law 505 exam over in Newhouse I, I had to carry my portable typewriter in the case in one hand from my apartment off campus to the test site. Then when I was done I had a ride with a friend of mine. That was a case where you better not lose your place because the procter of the exam wouldn't tell you where you were in your writing. In those situations, one didn't have the luxury of carrying a perkins braillewriter along with the Portable smith corona mannual typewriter. The good old days.
Sukosh Fearon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terri Pannett Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:04 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] braille note on testing I think this test issue brings up another point. If our BrailleNotes are in the shop or if our printer breaks down, we have no way to communicate in print to sighted people. In the old days, there was the typewriter, but typewriters aren't being made anymore. It seems to me HumanWare should consider looking into a mechanical solution which would fill the bill. Unless a blind person has seen before, handwriting with a pencil and paper is hard to learn and hard for the sighted folks to read. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would find it hard to dictate an essay with all the correct punctuation without first writing it down in braille. (I always had to write essays in braille and then type them). Another thing: I vaguely remember the SAT test I took in 1969 or 1970 had both braille and print on the same page and I used a pencil to mark my answers. I know that some embossers can emboss pages with braille and print on the same page. Does HumanWare sell one of these? Presently, neither my printer nor my embosser will work with my Mpower, I am very disappointed in this fact, and I know PK users can neither emboss nor print with their PK's. It's hard for me to understand why HumanWare hasn't found a solution so we could use our units with most, if not all, of the printers and embossers on the market. I suppose some of the problem is many printers, like the HP LaserJet 1010 series, require installation of software. Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karyn Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:16 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] braille note on testing > It was david, sorry about that Chris. > > > I have taken classes at our community college over the last couple of > years > and I had to do tests the good old-fashioned way with a reader. It works > just fine. It eliminates the cheating possibility. > > Take care. > > **All outgoing messages scanned using Norton Antivirus 2006. > > Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > __________ NOD32 1898 (20061203) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
