Wink Harner, Assistive Technology Consultant, The Foreign Type
Disability Area: Topic Area:
Length of Session (in hours): 2-hr
Format: Lab
Expertise Level: Beginner
Type of session: Not provided
Summary of Session
Demonstration and hands-on workshop using Dragon Naturally Speaking, Math Talk with Scientific Notebook to dictate math. A basic step-by-step guide and practice using dictation software to produce typewritten math, from basic mathematics to trigonometry.
Abstract
This demonstration and hands-on workshop will present an overview of the program, the steps to training the math vocabulary using Dragon Naturally Speaking, to practice dictating math problems and simple formulas. Participants will be provided with terminology handouts, simple user guide tools, and the opportunity to learn a technology particularly helpful for students who may need technology for hands-free math homework, quizzes & tests, and for students with math-related disability such as dyscalculia. This workshop will focus on how to use the technology.
Kepoints
Introduction & Demonstration of Math Talk
Using Basic Math Vocabulary
Math Dictation Basic Training
Speaker Bio(s)
Wink Harner
Wink Harner. BA, ABD - Has been an active member of ATHEN for 25 years and served for nearly a decade on the ATHEN Executive Board as Member-At-Large. Wink was invited as the keynote speaker for the 2019 Texas AHEAD conference and has been a keynote speaker at AZTAP in Arizona. She is the former director of disability services at Mesa Community College in Arizona, the Adaptive Technology Specialist for the DR office at Southern Oregon University. She currently works in freelance adaptive technology consulting and provides specialized alternative text conversions in math, sciences and foreign languages. She has been a professor of multiple languages for more than 25 years having completed her doctoral studies in Spanish, Portuguese, & French. Since August 2016, Wink developed and taught the adaptive technology in higher education core course for CUNY's Masters of Science in Disability Studies Program. In 2023 she developed a course in professional development for AHEAD in adaptive technology in higher education. She has presented at adaptive technology conferences for decades. For fun, Wink plays trombone in a wind symphony and a jazz band, as well as performing as a professional storyteller with the Portland Storytellers Guild.