One thing I liked about the old eureka was it had "louis rules" where one could customize ones own braille rules so you could literally write in grade 3 and have it back translated. I really wish we could do that with the bsp. Even with the eureka which wasn't the greatest keyboard wise having short forms was great for note taking in classes. And even now taking minutes at meetings having a grade 3 would be nice. Tessa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] off topic a surprising discovery I googled grade three braille and I found an article written about three methods of braille speedwriting. One was braille shorthand, one was a system invented by someone named Adams, the the third was grade 3 braille. The author of the article compared all three systems and concluded grade 3 braille was the most popular because it was easyier to learn and it built on the knowledge of grade two braille. I found the article to be very interesting. Grade 3 braille was very useful to me before the days of the notetakers, (grin). I suppose people in the 20th century needed the system because most people used the slate and stylus. I used it with the Perkins. Ah, well! Times change! Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kane Brolin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [GWN] off topic a surprising discovery > Terri, when I saw your note, I became curious about this too. The > only reference whatsoever to Grade 3 Braille in Wikipedia was a very > obscure one which pointed to the idea that Grade 3 is never used for > publication, but only for people's private notetaking purposes. I > guess that since less than 10% of visually-impaired folks even read > Braille any more, the attention is now shifting just to getting Grade > 1 and Grade 2 into people's heads so they can be functionally literate > on a baseline level. > > I looked in National Braille Press' catalog, too, and found no > publications whatsoever about Grade 3. That was shocking. But I did > find the following book, which still appears to be available from > American Printing House for the Blind. It was mentioned in an obscure > posting on the Duxbury User Discussion List on Freelists.org: > > Key to grade three Braille / by L.W. Rodenberg, director of printing. > > Ordering Info > Regular print. 1 v. (112 p.)Catalog #: 7-65860-00 Price: $35.00 > Braille. 1 v. (80 p.) Catalog #: 5-65860-00 Price: $32.00 > American Printing House for the Blind, 1839 Frankfort Avenue,P.O. Box > 6085, > Louisville, Ky. 40206-0085 PHONE: (502) 895-2405, > Voice: (800) 223-1839 > FAX:(502)899-2274 WEB ADDRESS: www.aph.org > EMAIL: cs > Description > Author: Rodenberg, L. W. > Note: "A revision of 'Alphabetical key to grade three,' (1926 edition)." > > Note: "Based on the text 'Revised Braille for reading and writing, Grade > Three,' published in ink and Braille by the National Institute for the > Blind, London, England, 1908." > Note: "Embossed and printed for the Illinois School for the Blind, > Jacksonville, Illinois." > > Isn't it amazing how far back Grade 3 goes? I'm rather surprised > about this. Just goes to show you how seriously people took it in the > early 20th century. > > -Kane > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-notetaker in the body of the > message. > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4791 (20100120) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-notetaker in the body of the message. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-notetaker in the body of the message.
