Answer for exercise 3
The solution for exercise 3 in chapter Video 3 - The Braille Hubble of Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book by Carol Nuttall and Amanda French
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss your answers to the questions, then watch again and check your answers.
Answer
- No
- The student says: ‘... it says red for sulphur, green for hydrogen and blue for oxygen, but the problem with that is, I can’t tell the different coloured gases, these lines are all the same.’
- Noreen says: ‘We can bring images that people might have only imagined, and we can bring it close to them so people can understand what these objects are in the universe and I think better understand their place within the universe.’
- The students were happy just to be involved at first, then they realised their opinions would shape the way the book was presented to people who are blind around the world.
- Part of the problem with the early versions of the plastic overlays is that they had touch points for everything in the photograph. Fingers got lost in the galaxy of dots and ridges. Later versions of the book provided more room to manoeuvre.