This week we worked with six more Kenyatta University students who have visual impairments to teach them how to use iPad minis and wireless keyboards to be able to read and create documents, read and send email messages, navigate the Internet, etc. With these six, the total comes to 20 students that we have thus far supplied with iPad minis and wireless keyboards.
The students are fast learners and very eager to learn. The technology allows them to be much more independent as a learner, and also in their personal life. As before, the best teachers are the students who have already been taught how to use an iOS device and have become expert at using the technology for their academic work and personal usage.
CaptionAlan Foley explains some of the iPad mini features
CaptionSharon Kashemwa and Margaret Masila become familiar with the iPad minis
CaptionMoses Wasike explores using the Home button on the iPad mini
CaptionPhoebe Nalwa, from the KU Disability Services Office, supports Sharon and Margaret
CaptionDan Onyango figures out how to open an app on the iPad mini
CaptionAlan assists Moses in learning to swipe with two fingers as part of a VoiceOver command
CaptionValentine Cherotich explores using a wireless keyboard with an iPad mini
CaptionMaring navigates his iPad mini using a keyboard and the VoiceOver screen reader
CaptionAlan assists Dan in adjusting the volume using the keyboard
CaptionAlan explains a keyboard command to Margaret
CaptionPhoebe and Sharon discuss keyboard commands
CaptionAlan assists Moses with a keyboard command
CaptionMargaret listening to VoiceOver to find a particular app
CaptionAlan answering a question from Valentine
CaptionMoses practicing opening apps
CaptionMaring helping Sharon set up an AppleID
CaptionSilas Opanga, who received his iOS device in June 2012, assisting Margaret
CaptionDan and Alan figuring out how to delete an app using the keyboard
CaptionValentine learning to open an app by double tapping
About Joanna Masingila
Joanna Masingila is Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at Syracuse University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Kenyatta University in 1998, and since that time Syracuse University and Kenyatta University have an institutional linkage.
