To Off Topic GW-Info Readers:
What are your various strategies of taking notes to supplement
while reading reading throughly critical thinking sorts of books? I
ask this cause of partly due to the fact that I haven't come up with a
good enough alternative of my pre-blindness techniques and partly on a
way of improving my critical reading abilities while in college. In
the past, people would put their notes in margains or would have a
separate piece of paper to write down their notes. Another strategy
that sighted people use as you probably know is highlighting text with
a marker or underlining even bolding text to contrast the rest of the
content. I cannot see how this could be possible with screen reader
primitive technology in comprison to these strategies. Moreover, the
diagrams with visual stimulations like pi graphs, bar graphs, tables,
illustrations, cartoons, etcc are also helpful for sighted people.
Basically my strategy in the past has been to find information in
the text discussed in the class via my electronic notes. Then, I might
be given handouts in comparison rarily with other fellow students to
find dates, people, places, things and specific terminology or
nuiansances to find what sticks out in a given book. I then make a
chronological listing with dates for a list at the very top of a study
guide. Then, I just more or less put in an outline format on each
individual chapter and the timeline that it pertains to with hitorical
people and their significance with different types of things
disguishing this subject from another subject. There ar faulty things
about my method cause of not knowing how to address the issues of lack
of regulation of textbooks independently and the availibility of
alternative textbooks for the blind in the states (e.g. National
Library Service, Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic, Project
Gutenburg, and Book Share). I must mention that these are all great
resources except for Project Gutenburg's recent virus volley on my net
book that I'm currently using which in the past seemed an
impossibility. Okay, the others are good if you have:
1. a braille display
2. familarized with personal digital assistance with equal functionality
3. knowledgable about Daisy format to be speedily equivalent to a
modern screen reader such as Window-Eyes
note: going to contact Book Share sometime soon just have some college
reading to catch up on and homework with three test due in a weeks
time.
Thanks for any strategies that you are willing to share with me.
If you would like I could share it with fellow posters off topic if
you would given much such said permission. I believe that us blind
peoples issue is largely
1. funding for expansion of alternative formats
2. lack of regulation of the internet and publications
3. education awareness in the global community
4. transportation coping methods
5. mathematics and english hurtles to overcome in programming, social
science and finding methods of more natural science research to adapt
for long-term win/win situations for the employer and for the
employee.
sincerely,
Peter Q Wolfe, AS
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