Hello there, how are you doing?
Perhaps, a good approach to this, is showing the student how to do
colorful things that he or she might enjoy. Perhaps, customizing a
desktop. Nothing anything deep, but just selecting their own
wallpaper as a default, or choosing a default picture. This would get
them a handle on going over dialogues. Social things such as Adium,
or just even iChat, which is already preinstalled would do nicely as
well. This would help in learning how to converse with friends, and
help them in getting use to interacting and so fourth. Other things
like going over iTunes, perhaps, navigating simplistic webpages, e-
mail, and perhaps manybe finding something in particular to his or her
interest.
One particular thing to mention is accessible games. I hear there are
some new games, and older ones as well, now available on the mac. I
don't know the respected companies, and how responsive they are with
voice over, but it is certainly a avenue to look at.
Other things you can do, is playing around with text edit to get
confortable with editing simplistic tasks, and if he or she does
music, you can try Garage Band.
I wish you well.
Best,
Fonzie
On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Ryan Dour wrote:
Hello,
Got any suggestions on things that could keep teaching Voiceover fun
for teens and pre-teens? I am helping out a friend teach her son
Voiceover, and I want to keep things interesting. One thing that
helped big time was the use of tactile graphics of the OS, Safari,
iTunes, common controls, etc. I used the ViewPlus Emprint in emboss
only mode on Windows to emboss the screen captures. I had a friend
help me crop them to exactly what I wanted to show off. Wonderful
result.
He likes sports, games, and music. Please let me know what could be
helpful.
Thanks,
Ryan Dour
