[Menvi-discuss] College textbooks
Julie McGinnity
kaybaycar at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 10:35:45 EDT 2014
Hi Winona,
I adore the quote at the end of your message. Anyway, I love HTML. I
don't know what kind of system your school has for alternative text
formats, but I take all my books to the Disability Services office,
which in turn, gives them to the Adaptive Computing Center, where they
scan them and turn them into pretty HTMLs with heading levels and each
chapter divided into a separate document. Word docs are good if you
want to put a book on your note taker as well.
Learning Ally is also an option, though it's not my preference. But I
have been successful with Learning Ally books as well. Like others
said, it's good that you're taking this process over yourself, but be
sure to get the Braille stuff going now as the transcribing can take a
while.
On 6/24/14, David Goldstein - Resource Center
<info2 at blindmusicstudent.org> wrote:
> Hi Winona,
>
> It's good you are taking the finding of books into your own hands. I assume
> you're aware that you may not find everything you need, and there will be
> times you will need to have non-music portions scanned by someone or read to
> you. Readers were essential in the old days, and they still are sometimes.
> Again, it's good you are taking control, but does your school have a
> disability services office that can help? When you mention choices of
> formats, Have you found places that have them to give you? Some textbook
> publishers make them available to schools, and that might be something the
> student services office can look into, if they haven't already. They can
> also scan, and hopefully, check for readability and correct outstanding
> scanning errors before they give the files to you.
>
> My experience is that it doesn't hurt to work with Learning Ally, especially
> if the books have a lot of non-musical text to get through. Learning Ally
> sometimes have people play musical examples on a piano in the studio, which
> can be really helpful for a music appreciation or history course. Also,
> Learning Ally is good at describing things. You may find that besides
> music, the texts have pictures or charts, which wouldn't make much sense in
> braille without a lot of concentration, and they're really only meant for
> the student to glance at. An audio description can be much faster for
> that--or skipped if it's not helping and you know what the illustration is
> getting at anyway.
>
> If the books are not already in the Learning Ally or someone's catalog, it's
> really important that you get the transcribing or recording process started.
> You probably know that in many cases, the transcriber or people reading can
> send you installments. In such cases, it's not only a good idea to have the
> class schedule, but to know specifically what you will need to read and how
> you will be expected to work with the material. There might be a glossary,
> for example, that you'd need at the very beginning, or the teacher may do
> chapter 5 before chapter 3. Depending on how specific the schedules you
> have are, you may want to arrange to meet with teachers (if they haven't run
> away for the summer). It may also help to go through a copy of the print
> book with someone so you know exactly what parts are going to be challenging
> for the transcriber or reader, or what format would work best for you if it
> already is available.
>
> In making choieces of what format would work for you, you should remember
> that pdf can be a mess if not tagged properly; you might get all the page
> numbers in the table of contents together before the chapter names, or might
> not be able to read any words at all. The best formats would be Daisy or
> HTML, but you're more likely to find Word, which can be okay, again, if it's
> done right. Word files can have links, sometimes, and would work on most
> notetakers.
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Winona Brackett
> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] College textbooks
>
>
> Yes. I was asking the best way to read the non music parts of the
> textbook. Sorry i didn't state it more clearly before.
>
> Winona
>
>
> trumpetqueenwb at gmail.com
>
>
> "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you
> do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone using VoiceOver
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:05 PM, "Teresa Haifley" <dthaifley at iowatelecom.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> Are you asking what format for the transcriber? I must have
> misunderstood.
> I thought you were asking what format in which to read the non-music
> portions of the books.
>
> I got along well with Learning Ally when I home schooled one of my
> kids.
> PDF's are okay but not quite as easily navigated with Jaws as I would
> like.
> You will probably need to use more than one format.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Kathleen Cantrell
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 5:54 PM
> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] College textbooks
>
> Yes, PDF is the easiest way!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bettie & Bill Downing
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:05 PM
> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] College textbooks
>
> PDF
>
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Winona Brackett wrote:
>
>
> Hi all.
>
>
>
> I will be attending stetson university and majoring in Music
>
> Performance starting this fall. I have received my schedule along with
>
>
> the required textbooks. For the music classes specifically, in what
>
> format have you recieved yourbooks? Should I use learning ally? PDF
>
> file? . No matter which file type I choose I would have to have the
>
> music portions of the books transcribed. . So my question is: which
>
> format has worked best for you and why?
>
>
>
> Thank you for your suggestions and recommendations; I really
>
> appreciate each one as I make this important decision.
>
>
>
> Winona
>
>
>
> trumpetqueenwb at gmail.com
>
>
>
> "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what
>
> you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone using VoiceOver
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Julie McG
National Association of Guide dog Users board member, National
Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President,
and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008
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