Congratulations to you, Mike. That is indeed a tribute to all of your hard
work. Perhaps we shall see the day when the gps will be issued to students
of habilitation as nonchilantly as canes are.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:36 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] first University course on BrailleNote GPS
I have just left Kalamazoo Michigan where 13 orientation and mobility instructors are in the midst of a 3 day course on the BrailleNote GPS. I flew out to help get the equipment ready for the class. What a job updating 13 BrailleNotes with Keysoft 6.1, GPS 3.1, maps and POIs. Just charging 13 BrailleNotes and 13 receivers is a challenge.
It was pretty exciting when the instructors arrived yesterday from around the country and we hit the streets. We actually had 16 BrailleNotes chattering down the street at the same time. Three of us were circulating around answering questions, carrying our own BrailleNotes. Everything worked and our students got the hang of the equipment pretty quickly.
All of the students were sighted and only a few had some experience with the BrailleNote. It always amuses me to see sighted folks using a Braille keyboard, not to mention figuring out synthesized speech. They did great.
This course is being taught by Paul Ponchillia, chairman of the department and by a graduate student Catherine Emerson. It began at 5 PM on Friday and ends Sunday at noon. University credit is provided.
Since Western cranks out a lot of the O&M and Rehab graduates, it is wonderful to see state of the art technology being taught at university level. It is very gratifying for me, who is usually the teacher, to be the observer for a change and to know that modern wayfinding technology has become part of one university's curricula.
Mike
Michael G. May
CEO Sendero Group
Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS
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