PM 41195534 December 13, 2012 / Vol. 48 No. 28 Western’s newspaper of record since 1972 ILLUSTRATION BY FRANK NEUFELD 2 Western News | December 13, 2012 Coming Events Triassic Therapies dec 13 – JAN 2 Now offering Reiki • Reflexology • Therapeutic Touch 219 Oxford Street West, Suite 102A (ForestCity Naturopathic Clinic) 519-615-5820, [email protected] By appointment only. Customized Packages Gift Certificates 710 Adelaide Street N., just south of Oxford St. Student and Senior Discounts www.triassictherapies.com Nov 8 Sushi Galore offers all the sushi & select asian Mon - Thurs ... items you can eat for one great price, all made fresh as Lunch $13.99 you order and delivered to your table. Dinner $20.99 Fri-Sun Lunch $14.99 & Dinner $22.99 Over 100 sushi & asian items to Kids 5 – 11 yrs – 1/2price choose from! 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Five years ago, Zinke-Allmang had a hearing-impaired student in a class that packs more than 1,000 registered students into North Campus Build- ing 101. “She needed to be able to do lip- reading, and that’s next to impossible in that room. We had to arrange to move that student to attend a smaller class, and this was not the choice of the student,” Zinke-Allmang said. “So, I was very happy this year when it worked out quite differently.” Zinke-Allmang has two hearing- impaired students this time around and has arranged a new way to pres- ent them with the same classroom experience available to the rest of the class. As Zinke-Allmang teaches, his lectures are recorded using Black- board Collaborate, a virtual classroom environment facilitated by ITS. On that system are his preloaded Pow- erPoint slides, upon which he makes notes during the lecture. Everything is recorded by the system. For hearing-impaired students like Ashlee Banyard, the program has a closed-captioning option. This allows ADELA TALBOT, WESTERN NEWS her designated note-taker to type the “Although I can get the (note-tak- been used in a Western classroom, Zinke-Allmang added while the For first-year student Ashlee lecture verbatim, providing Banyard er’s) notes, when you read over them, said Jane Winkler of ITS, and the cam- benefit for students with hearing- with a real-time transcript she follows they sometimes don’t make sense. pus community could benefit from impairment is great, the benefits of Banyard, who is hearing- on her laptop screen. But if I see it on the close-caption- greater awareness of resources avail- Blackboard Collaborate and its fea- impaired, a closed-captioning Once the lecture is over, Blackboard ing, it’s much easier to understand able to students who face challenges.