Great suggestions from Eric and others. I would add a braille display to the list of suggestions if she's a proficient braille user. This will let her do all of her reading and writing without having an earphone or earbud. Our ears need to be listening to the class, not Voiceover. Sighted students are writing and reading their notes and listening to the teacher and everybody asking questions and commenting, a blind student needs to be writing, and reading notes tactually and also listening to the teacher and classmates. Ears out in the "real world" no audio division or distractions.
Best to all, Ron Miller > On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Eric Caron <ecar...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi Nimit, > > I'm a High School Guidance Counselor in VT. > > I think these suggestions are right on. I would add a few to the list. > > List Recorder is great for organizing recordings or brief written notes. It > is one of my most used apps at work and home. I would have loved it as a > student. It can serve in many ways from a to do list to recording entire > classes. It can also be used if the student needs to do a presentation and > needs talking points. It is great for studying languages as you can keep > lists of words to study. The uses go on and on. > > > Pear notes lets a student record something such as a class or meeting and > also take written notes. The recording and the notes match up so the student > can hear again the parts of the class that their notes don't cover > adequately. Again I would have loved this as a student! > > iBooks can be used to read PDFs pretty well. And some text books are > becoming available on it. > > In addition to book share the student could use the BARD mobile app to find > many books for English and other classes. This assumes it is a US student. > Depending on math needs I'd look into calculator options to have ready to go. > > If the student is planning on doing lots of in class note taking they might > want a bluetooth keyboard, and to work quietly a bluetooth ear piece. > > Depending on the class other apps will be very helpful. Apps to read current > news for example. > > > > Let me know if I can be of additional help. > > Eric Caron > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Nimit <kaur.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hello, everybody, >> Well, I am asking this for a student, that I know, who has to use iPad for >> educational purposes. Note, for my friend... Anyways, this person is is in >> a regular High School Environment. This person has to do regular school >> tasks such as, writing papers, doing homework, reading and finding >> textbooks, communicating with teachers by email and such. I have >> recommended the following apps for specific tasks for her. I was asking if >> you guys have any suggestions for apps you can suggest for her? Apps that >> you think may benefit a student? >> I told her to use Pages for word processing, but if you have any other >> suggestions for word processing, please advice as Pages accessibility has >> been going down and down. >> I told her Keynote for Powerpoint which seems accessible for viewing >> presentations. She has not had to create one yet so she can not comment on >> that but she usually needs help in making powerpoints for the visual stuff. >> She tries avoiding it and just writes what she wants each slide to be and >> then somebody actually does it for her. >> I told her Read2Go for bookshare for her textbooks. >> Native Mail app is good for her to email people. >> I told her to use reminders for homework reminder. I taught her how to >> create a list, homework in reminders, and then add stuff in it. It seems to >> work for her. >> Now, can you guys suggest anything? Please? Here are the following we are >> having troubles in helping her. >> We can not find a cheap reliable scanning solutions for her iPad. >> We can not find a good PDF reader but we have considered the Adobe Acrobat >> Reader for her. >> I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter in helping my friend. >> Thank you, >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> >> Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. >> >> Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> >> Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing >> viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. >> >> Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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