The reason i do it as my broadcasting suite uses windows and i don't want to 
change it, pluss I have ot use sonar to edit and master stuff until I can 
afford protools le which will be a while but I'm patient.

Take care.

S
On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It seems that you guys had your success with blackboard from the student end. 
>  Donna sounds like she uses blackboard as a faculty member.  Maybe there is a 
> subtle difference that impairs the accessibility with VO
> 
> hth 
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Orin wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, I took a BLackboard course with safari and it wasn't all that bad. 
>> Messaging could use some work, though, as when I tried to message someone it 
>> for some reason came out blank on their end.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Olivia Norman wrote:
>> 
>>> It's interesting that blackboard didn't work for you.  I was a student for 
>>> a year lst winter, and I got great results with blackboard and safari.  
>>> Hopefully, the mac will soon replace that expensive third party software 
>>> for you! :)
>>> I totally understand that some still need windows, and I'm kind of enjoying 
>>> finding out all of this information from all of you!  
>>> Olivia
>>> "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs
>>> 
>>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 7:38 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Olivia,
>>>> 
>>>> Remember that a lot of us who are coming to the Mac now, have been Windows 
>>>> users for many years, which means, unfortunately, that we already own that 
>>>> expensive third-party software. :)
>>>> 
>>>> Speaking only for myself of course, I got a Mac b/c I like the notion of 
>>>> out-of-the-box accessibility, and I want to support Apple in this 
>>>> approach.  I would also be happy to stop paying for upgrades to that 
>>>> expensive 3rd-party software.  When I bought my Mac, my plan had been to 
>>>> abandon Windows completely, but I have found that simply isn't possible.  
>>>> Right now, there is not a good scanning option for the Mac, unless you 
>>>> want to commit to fine-reader without a demo, and use it in conjunction 
>>>> with Vuescan.  My copy of Kurzweil works great, so I continue to scan on 
>>>> my old Windows machine.  I also find that some Word docs with tables in 
>>>> them read much better in Windows than on the Mac.  I also use the Duxbury 
>>>> translator, which runs under Windows.  Also, several of us have noted that 
>>>> audio captchas work much better under windows than they do on the Mac.  
>>>> Moreover, at least on the faculty end, Blackboard works *much better under 
>>>> Windows, in fact, as of last winter, Safari 4 wasn't even supported.  So, 
>>>> though I had not planned to continue using Windows, for all of the above 
>>>> reasons, I still do.  My solution has been to simply hang onto my Windows 
>>>> machine.  But if you can't do that for whatever reason, your only option 
>>>> is to run a dual-boot system on your Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> I love my Mac, but right now it simply cannot completely replace my 
>>>> Windows machine.  So, until it can, I'll be running both.
>>>> Take care,
>>>> Donna
>>>> On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Olivia Norman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>> Now, this is just my opinion, so don't flame me to much, OK? :)  I just 
>>>>> don't understand totally why people install windows on the mac and what 
>>>>> they use it for?  It seems to me, and my admittedly limited experience 
>>>>> with windows over the last few years, that it just simply isn't worth the 
>>>>> trouble and expense for most people.  Consider that windows isn't 
>>>>> accessible out of the box, so you've often got to get some expensive 
>>>>> third party solution like Jaws to make it accessible to you, as well as 
>>>>> purchasing windows.  I guess the question I'm asking here, is if you're 
>>>>> going to shell out the cash for windows, and the third party access 
>>>>> solutions, why get a mac in te first place?  Also, from a VO users 
>>>>> prospective, how difficult is it to switch between the two operating 
>>>>> systems?
>>>>> I'm just curious, and if you're using windows, I would be interested in 
>>>>> knowing why and how you switch between the OS's?
>>>>> Thanks for appeasing my curiosity!  I'm sure there are totally good 
>>>>> reasons for using windows on a mac, I'd just like to know why/what they 
>>>>> are!
>>>>> Olivia
>>>>> "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs
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