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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Feb 10, 2009 3:55AM

John,

At 20:58 5/02/2009, John Foliot wrote:
>http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43

What is your opinion on Gez Lemon's "User-Defined Access Keys":
<http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-accesskeys.php>; /
<http://juicystudio.com/article/user-defined-access-keys-aspversion.php>;?

Best regards,

Christophe


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>John Foliot
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>Program Manager
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>Stanford Online Accessibility Program
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>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jan Heck
>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:47 AM
>To: 'Alternate Media'; 'WebAIM Discussion List'; 'Discussion list for web
>and software accessibility issues'
>Subject: [Accessibility_sig] "Safe" shortcut keys
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>Some colleagues are developing a Web application, the content of which is
>mostly accessed in a linear fashion, with Back and Next buttons. Can
>anyone recommend "safe" keyboard shortcut combinations for the Back and
>Next buttons that won't interfere with the browser, with JAWS, etc.? I
>could really use some help with this!
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>Thanks very much,
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>Jan Heck
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>From: Shelley Haven [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:28 AM
>To: Alternate Media
>Subject: RE: has anyone heard of this new tech device?
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>Hi, all!
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>As I mentioned in a previous post, the audio+notes recording feature of
>the Livescribe pen is most effective if you have a notetaking strategy to
>use with it. Here's a strategy I teach to students who have difficulty
>simultaneously taking notes and listening:
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>I suggest they decide on a set of words which can help them find the
>appropriate audio when they need it (whether to relisten to it or to
>expand notes). For example, they could mark or annotate key points or
>"sections" in the audio by writing just one or two words like:
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>- Assignment, or an "A" in a circle (for where the instructor goes over
>the homework assignment)
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>- Major Point, MP, or an asterisk (to imply "be sure to listen to this
>later")
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>- Test (this will be on the test)
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>- ?? (don't understand - ask instructor later, or go back and listen to
>later)
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>- Page __, or a circled number (reference to something in textbook)
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>- [Topic name] (marks where instructor began talking about a new topic)
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>- [Slide title] (marks new slide just put up on screen)
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>- etc.
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>With a little practice and refinement, the result becomes a pen-navigable
>outline of the lecture where the student can go back and listen to
>important sections either for review or to fill in extra notes, etc.
>Since it always takes a little time to decide whether to write something
>and what to write, I suggest students turn on the smartpen's "Playback
>Latency" feature, so that selecting a note with the pen (or on the
>computer after downloading) begins audio playback from 10 seconds prior to
>when the note was actually written.
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>BTW, the same basic strategy can be applied to notetaking software like
>Microsoft OneNote (Windows only) and Circus Ponies NoteBook (Mac only),
>both of which include an audio recording feature which synchronizes typed
>notes and audio. With these, one can reduce notetaking even more by
>creating keyboard macros for those "bookmark" terms listed above -- F1 >"Assignment", F2 = "Major Point", etc.
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>Hope this helps,
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> Shelley Haven
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>At 3:51 PM -0800 2/2/09, Gaeir Dietrich wrote:
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>Actually, Maria, I think the pen would be great. You do not need to write
>words. You could use numbers or symbols or even just a letter "x" each
>time the lecturer said something that you wanted to hear later. Then you
>could go back to each of your marks and the pen would let you know what
>was being said at that time. You could think of it as a way of putting a
>"bookmark" in the audio file.
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>******************************************************
>Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich
>High Tech Center Training Unit of the
>California Community Colleges
>De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
>www.htctu.net
>408-996-6043
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>From: Pena, Maria [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 12:04 PM
>To: Alternate Media
>Subject: RE: has anyone heard of this new tech device?
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>Question Daryl et al - With my LD my writing looks like chicken scratch -
>I cannot even write on the lines, I miss information, and usually it is
>best if I have a note taker in class - BUT - I always record my lectures -
>so for someone like me, is this pen worth it, or is it better to use a
>digital recorder with a USB cable to download the audio file later and
>just get a note taker? I have students who are just like me with their
>LD's so I am curious for them also - please advise?
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>
>"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the
>hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the
>not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration
>for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your
>road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It
>exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
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>-Ayn Rand (1905-1982); novelist, screenwriter, playwright,
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>From: Daryl Murphy [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:14 AM
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>To: Alternate Media
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>Subject: RE: has anyone heard of this new tech device?
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>I purchased this pen In Nov of last year and works great. The following
>is just a sample of things that it can do and things that are in the works
>for the coming months;
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>1. record conversations, lectures, or meetings in normal settings. (you
>can be in the middle of the classroom and record the instructor very well)
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>2. take notes while recording to match notes with speech
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>3. save the notes and speech to a computer
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>4. save and publish notes on their web site for free to share notes
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>5. (with an optional program) turn your notes into text for word
>processing
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>6. Print out paper for note taking with the newer color laser printers
>(if the printer is less than 2 years old, should be just fine)
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>7. If you purchased the paper it's basically the same price as in the
>store (comes with 3 tablets, extra ink refills, carrying case) [from
>Costco $199.99 2 gig model]
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>8. Soon to be released, a translation dictionary program and OCR to
>text program
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>There web site is
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> <http://www.livescribe.com/index.html>;
>http://www.livescribe.com/index.html
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>great tool
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>Daryl R. Murphy
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>Adaptive Computer Technician Specialist (Retired)
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>862.1315
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean J Keegan [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:37 PM
>To: Alternate Media
>Subject: Re: has anyone heard of this new tech device?
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> > a person taking notes for one of our students came in today
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> > and is using a pen (with special paper) that records the lecture
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> > then the student can download it via a USB cable
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>It is called the Pulse SmartPen by LiveScribe
>(http://www.livescribe.com/smartpen/index.html - warning Flash site).
>Cost for the 1GB model is $149 and for the 2GB model $199.
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>It does basically what you mentioned - it can record audio while the
>student is taking notes. The really cool part is that if you are using
>their special paper, the audio content is "synchronized" with the notes on
>the page. All you need to do is press on the paper where the notes were
>taken and the pen will automatically jump to that section of the audio
>recording.
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>We have a number of them in circulation, but I have not heard back from
>students if they are a real benefit or just a fancy pen. A few comments I
>have heard from others is that it is a nice feature to have the audio, but
>you need to be careful where you sit in the class in order to get a good
>audio recording. What I would like to look at is what learning and
>note-taking strategies are important to use in order to take advantage of
>the pen's features.
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>Next month is "smartpen month" for me as I am planning to play with it
>more then.
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>Take care,
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>sean
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>Sean Keegan
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>Associate Director, Assistive Technology
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>Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University
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