I wanted to second the praise of Iowa Department for the Blind Tutorials.  I also
teach adaptive technology and this has been a tremendous service.  For Frank and
others, here again is the URL.
http://www.blind.state.ia.us/assist/
I also have a request.  I am working for a Masters in Educational Computing.  I
have to interview someone with a disability.  I have a series of questions I would
like to E-mail anyone who will contact me directly
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Thanks for you help in advance.

Frank Cunningham wrote:

> VI>It was suggested that you are someone who should know just how much some of
> VI>us appreciate the funding that allows the Iowa Department for the Blind
> VI>Assist With Windows project to produce their many tutorials.
>
> VI>I am an assistive technology trainer for blind people and a partially blind
> VI>speech userr myself.  Part of the difficulty we have in the never-ending
> VI>struggle to keep up with  the technology that blind people must confront at
> VI>school, in their jobs, etc. is that what is designed to be increasingly
> VI>more intuitive and easy to learn for the sighted user is increasingly more
> VI>complex for us.
>
> VI>As someone who is self-employed, in order to remain competitive, I need to
> VI>keep learning to use  as many applications and access packages as I can and
> VI>sometimes with little advance warning.   As it is, there seems to be a
> VI>shortage of people like myself who can provide good training,, and we
> VI>ourselves must struggle to learn on our own as much as we can as quickly as
> VI>we can.  In the short period of time they have been out, I have  come to
> VI>depend on the Iowa tutorials to help me quickly transition from one
> VI>combination of products to another before I must work with a client who is
> VI>using something I haven't worked with in a while.     I have also used them
> VI>to get a quick start with a new product.  These well-structured and
> VI>thorough tutorials are just what an instructor needs as an aid to the
> VI>lesson planning we never really have time for.  I can't emphasize how
> VI>important this project is and how critical it is that their funding
> VI>continue well into a future that doesn't promise to get easier
>
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> Thanks for the info, but how does one get ahold of these Iowa
> pictorials?
> Please advise...
> Thanks...
> Frank
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