Thank you for this resource. I was looking for her in the wrong places. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Frost To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 7:53 AM Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity
Hi, I believe she’s still found at www.blindtraining.com Robin From: Angel Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 6:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity Reading this thread caused me to look up Kathy Anne Murtha's courses on the internet. I was unable to find them. Has she discontinued teaching on the internet? She also sold a course for access technology trainers. Who learned to use their keyboards alone. As she was totally blind. I still have in my archives her windows courses for XP. I learned quite a lot from them. Perhaps, if you were to create something similar to her courses for your students they might prove as helpful as were her courses for us. ----- Original Message ----- From Brian Vogel To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 5:18 PM Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 02:04 pm, Maria Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: I don't mind hearing sighted jargon as long as it is translated into something I can understand on the keyboard. This actually brings up an interesting sub-question. Other than when actually instructing on what keystrokes are necessary to accomplish a given action, and during practice to master that action, when I also mention the action name and/or jargon that goes with it, I do not generally ever mention the keystrokes in the future. I presume that once someone has mastered "select" in the context of a file or files or in the context of a word through a text block that I not only don't, but shouldn't, be mentioning the keystrokes again. I simply say "select" and the appropriate whatever comes after for the context in question. I presume that the necessary nuts-and-bolts are already understood and should be used as the basis for building upon more complex tasks. Is there any reason to keep reiterating the keystrokes once a given action appears to have been mastered rather than just using the action name itself? Brian
