RE: update on training manuals
- From: "Eileen Misrahi" <eileenmis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:39:29 -0700
This is wonderful. May be FS will see that there are a fair number of us
Optecon users out here and begin supporting us.
Great job for your efforts.
Eileen
-----Original Message-----
From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Robert Englebretson
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:54 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: update on training manuals
Dear All,
I have some exciting news to share with the list about the training manuals
and other documentation. Many of you may remember that I had volunteered to
take on the job of scanning them in order to make them available for
purposes of teaching and learning the Optacon. My first step in that
process was to track down copyright permissions. It turns out, as several
of you suggested, that Freedom Scientific is indeed the copyright holder for
Optacon documentation. So I contacted Freedom Scientific's General Counsel
to explain my plan, to argue for the necessity of making these out-of-print
training manuals available, and to seek permissions to scan and distribute
them for free. I heard back from him earlier this week, and they actually
have proposed something even better than what I had suggested! They did not
grant permissions, but instead, they have decided to make the training
manuals (Stage I, Stage II, and Independent Practice for Stage I), the
Teaching Guidelines, and the Owner's Manuals available for free download
from their web site. I will be assisting them in scanning some of these
over the next few weeks, and they are aware of the necessity for page images
in the training manuals so as to preserve font information and exact page
layout. I think this is really exciting, since it will make all of these
materials easy to find for everyone, on a well-known, centralized location.
We don't have a timetable yet as to when all of this will be completed, but
I'll keep the list informed. I'm very impressed that Freedom Scientific has
taken an interest in doing this, especially since they don't otherwise
market or support the Optacon at all. I guess all that needed to happen was
for someone to raise an interest and ask them--so thanks to those of you on
the list who nudged me into doing that. I'll let everyone know when they
are available online.
Best,
--Robert Englebretson
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