Hi, Gigi,
Thank you so much for all of your help! I really appreciate it,
because I don't know how to decide whether I want a Windows or a
Mac machine. I will concider all of your advice, and I will do
as much research as I can before I make my choice.
Sincerely,
Jasmine
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From: Gigi <[email protected]
To: "[email protected]"
<[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 04:19:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Hello
I am now retired from teaching and customer service work these
days, so I thought I'd weigh in on this subject. If you want to
go further back, Apple 2 E's used to dominate education as far as
computers went.
I think when you are deciding what computer you want you have to
decide what your needs are now because by the time you get out of
school and get to that all-important job, you'll have to know
what the school district has and fit yourself in. If you're
lucky, you can have your own system and only have to connect with
theirs to enter grades and student records.
Right now you have to get through education with your computer
choice. I would think little would be the first choice so you
could wag things around. These days, a lot of universities have
electronic library material available. You might want to go and
visit the university of your choice and investigate what they
have have, both for disabled and nondisabled students. You'll
want to find out how you get the library files and what systems
can access them.
I recently investigated going to graduate school, and the
university had all kinds of things like braille displays, Jaws,
Kurzweil 1000, and braille embossers. NNondisabled studeents had
access to electronic edia, and I could have used any system of
mine I wanted to access it.
Personally, I think devices like iPads and MacBook Airs are going
to be important for us. You can do things on iOS devices that
we've not been able to do before as easily like moving icons
around with touch and hold.
You're going to want to do a lot of word processing at home for
lesson plans. You can do that with any accessible system,
whether Windows or Mac. You'll want to be doing fancy color
stuff. I had a blind friend whose principal decided that
everybody should underline objectives in certain colors, no
exceptions to that.
Internet access will be another biggie for you. I think both
types of computers can that ok. Email can be done of either as
well. I haven't tried scanning programs on the Mac yet, so
others will need to comment about that.
I am avoiding doing so myself, because I don't need to, but you
can put Windows on a Mac. You could have both Macintosh programs
and Windows on your Mac. I've heard it runs Windows faster than
other computers. I hope all this helps, and happy researching.
Regards,
Gigi
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Jasmine Kotsay
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be in programming or networking.
I'm trying to get my teaching credentials in a few years, so I'm
not sure what kind of computer to get in the future.
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From: "Louie P. (Pete) Nalda" <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:21:12 -0500
Subject: Re: Hello
I think that the biggest difference you'll have is a slight
learning curve using VoiceOver as opposed to Jaws or other
Windows screenreaders. I myself, am not the one to ask, but do
invite others with hands on both sides to give you more details.
As for compatibility with things like blackboard and Word, again,
I'm not sure, as I worked in Electronic publishing in school, and
most of our machines were macs, and I'm more of a Zoom user than
a VO user, except when my eyes fatigue. If you're going into
programming or networking, I feel the mac is a nice choice
because you have BSD Unix built right in, and if need be, can
work directly from the terminal.
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
Hi,
I can't answer most of your questions as I am a novice at the
mac myself, but I will tell you that you will like it once you
get the hang of it.
The only thing I really know how to do is some e-mail and some
safari stuff. I wish you the best and I hope you like it as much
as I do.
Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks
On Nov 1, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Jasmine Kotsay wrote:
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