[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: description of visuals of the CBS segment re bookshare.
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:46:48 -0800 (PST)
You're all welcome. I'm glad it enhanced the broadcast
for you.
Cindy
--- Diane Scalzi <dscalzi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a wonder description. Thank you so much.
> Diane
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: description of
> visuals of the CBS segment
> re bookshare.
>
> Wow, Cindy this is a great description, smile.
>
> Thank you for sharing this.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: description of visuals
> of the CBS segment re
> bookshare.
>
>
> Enough of you asked me to post this that I am.
>
> A printed transcript and a video can be viewed on
> the CBS news site at this
> URL: http://tinyurl.com/2e7wxh In fact, though I
> took notes from the segment
> my husband taped, I played the online video over and
> over to fill in details
> I hadn't written down. I don't know how long they'll
> keep it on the site but
> hopefully it's still there if those of you who
> missed it want to hear/see
> it.
>
> o.k.--Here is what I saw.
>
> My description goes in the order of the program.
>
> First Jim Fruchterman is walking on a lovely path
> with broad green lawn on
> either side, apparently in Palo Alto-past a tall
> purple building. He's
> shorter than I remember from meeting him last year
> at CSUN-I must be
> thinking of Guido.
>
> Jim is round-face and wears glasses. He has a very
> open, nice expression. I
> think he looks young-younger than I expected from
> his position as the
> founder (I
> think) of benetech. He has brown hair and is very
> nice looking, by which I
> mean not only that he's a nice/pleasant-looking man
> but he looks like a nice
> man. He has a lovely smile.
>
> He was wearing a beautiful multicolored striped
> long-sleeved sweater (which
> I would love to have) over a blue shirt, and I think
> dark blue pants to
> match the stripe in his sweater.
>
> From outside he and the reporter moved into the
> office. I was surprised at
> how many desks/carrels there were. For some reason I
> imagined a small
> crowded space with a very large scanner. At one
> point there was a picture of
> what I suppose with the scanner, because there was a
> pile of white printed
> sheets being fed very quickly into what looked like
> a large printer. Perhaps
> Carrie can tell us if that was a scanner or if it
> was a machine that turns
> validated book pages into BRF and/or Daisy.
>
> There was a quick shot of Carrie at her computer
> typing something in,
> probably validating. (Carrie, you can tell us what
> you were doing). Carrie
> has short blond hair and glasses and was wearing a
> purple long-sleeved
> sweater and brown pants.
>
> Back to Jim in the office. After walking down an
> aisle past carrels with
> desks with computers, some of which had people
> working at them, there was a
> shot of John Glass (he wasn't identified, but since
> Lisa told us he was to
> be in it I assume it was he). Some of you knew John
> before he joined
> bookshare, so you know he's blind. The picture
> focused on his hands reading
> Braille and reading aloud from the book.. I was
> guessing that it was a
> Braille notebook, because it was small and oblong.,
> but then it also had a
> round speaker at the back of it and he demonstrated
> that the bookshare books
> can also be "read" by sound, and we heard the same
> sentences read by the
> machine. Is that Daisy reader? I have no idea what
> either a Braille notebook
> or Daisy reader look like. John, perhaps you'd be
> good enough to explain
> what you were using.
>
> John was wearing a blue-and-green plaid shirt and
> beige or tan pants.. His
> hair is dirty blond, he has nicely manicured fingers
> (a lot better-looking
> than
> mine) and what looks like a college ring on the ring
> finger of his right
> hand.
>
> Then we come to Brian Miller. He lives in
> Alexandria, VA, and is seen
> walking. along a sidewalk with snow on either side.
> He uses a white cane.
> He's wearing a dark, hooded winter jacket and white
> pants. He has dark,
> almost black hair receding from the forehead but
> full and wavy everywhere
> else. He has a full, longish face-at least longer
> than Jim's, which is
> round.
>
> Then we see him at his computer listening to a
> newspaper (I think that's
> what it was, since there's then a list of the
> newspapers available and he
> says that he downloads newspapers as well as books.
> Brian, correct me if I'm
> wrong)l He's wearing a long-sleeved dark red shirt
> with double-white
> stripes.
>
> Then we see Brian walking into the King Street
> Station for his commute to
> D.C. (What do you do, Brian?) He's wearing is dark
> jacket and white pants. I
> suspect the filming of Brian and his commute was
> separate from the filming
> in his home).
>
> Then we see him sitting on a beige sofa or love seat
> with his wife. Behind
> him are shelves of things that look like CDs and/or
> LPs. and something
> brick-part of a fireplace? Brian's wearing a dark
> blue long-sleeved shirt.
> (It looks soft and comfortable-I'd like one like
> that, too). Then we see him
> on the train using earphones listening to
> something-the NY Times?-while
> other commuters are reading their papers.
>
> Back to Brian at home. I don't know when he became
> blind, but his eyes are
> wide open and he focuses on the reporter when he
> speaks. He's one who a
> person probably wouldn't know was blind if he didn't
> have the cane.
>
> Then we meet his wife, Priscilla McKinley, sitting
> next to Brian on the
> sofa. She has dark shoulder-length hair parted in
> the middle and is wearing
> a lovely red long-sleeved turtleneck sweater.
> She has a small, roundish face.
>
> Then we see Jim in what looks like a college
> classroom standing in front of
> a pinkish chalkboard with figures on it. He's
> talking to an assorted group
> of students sitting in front of him. Now he's
> wearing a red long-sleeved
> sweater over a blue shirt, and gray pants.
>
> Another shot of Jim and the reporter walking on the
> path in Palo Alto.
>
> Finally we see Brian standing on the platform
> waiting for the train and then
> the shot of him in the train listening to the paper.
>
> The opening and closing shots were of the city of
> Palo Alto from
> above-pretty white buildings and blue sky
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
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