Useful tips for students and teachers
Hey guys, sorry I haven’t updated in a bit. I was getting ready to go back to college. Now everything is set so now I’m here in my dorm room. Today I had my first day of school. It was interesting. It’s going to be a good year I think, but wish me luck. It’s not going to be easy, but it should be fun.
So I e-mailed my teachers during the summer to say hello and to get the reading lists so that I could at least to a certain extent be ahead of the game when it came to reading. I got most of the books, and most of them are a decent length, but one of them is over 800 words. What does that mean? 35 hours of listening to one book! It was a decent book at least, but still! I listen to books fast (in fact people wonder how I could listen that fast and understand, but I do actually) so it wasn’t as long as it could have been, but even if I did listen to it twice as fast as normal that’s still 17-18 hours of listening. I can just imagine how long that would take me to actually read if that was on paper. One time I took a reading test to see how fast I read and it was only about 100 words per minute. I think that does depend on the size of the print, but it’s not the best (which was an interesting thing when I was trying to help my mom study for her dog show test to see if she could judge dogs as we drove over to New York. I had to read the papers out to her, and sometimes I stumbled over my words, but it all worked out so yay! ) Actually that’s a thing about y reading. Because I have to look at each words sometimes it’s hard for me to tell where a sentence starts and ends so really it’s just a lot easier to listen to books. Even so that took a long time. I’m going to have to do it over again, but still, it certainly wasn’t an easy task.
A piece of technology I like using are Victor Reader Streams for Mumanware. They are small and portable (which is a vast improvement from things I’ve had in the past. Technology really has been getting smaller for the better). I’d recommend it for many different things. Itps practical for many different uses. from recording notes, to listening to stories from Audible, Learning Ally, and other things to even being able to put your own written documents on it. It makes listening to stories on the go really fast and easy, and if you’re a writer like me you can even listen to your own stories (if you don’t mind the-sometimes highly amusing-butchering of names that aren’t English).
I use mine for various purposes. I have some SD cards where I have stories I’ve written or fun stories I want to listen to on my free time. Then I have a number of SD cards that I use to record notes from lectures and read the books I need for class.
One thing I will warn about notes is that you can’t rename them. It will not recognize them unless they have a specific name. So my suggestion would be having more than one card for different classes to make them easier to go through.
The navigation isn’t too hard to figure out, and you can navigate it rather fast. There are also ways to change the speed and pitch of the voice if needed. It’s a very useful tool for anyone who needs to listen to books, things they’ve written and record notes all in one. It also has various differnet language functions as well so it can help visually impaired peole from theor countries.