GETTING T

O KNOW

YOUR BOOK P

ORT

PLUS (BPP)

GENERAL BOOK PORT PLUS (BPP) INFO

BPP has two main functions:Digital/Audio playerDigital recorder

This module will focus on the BPP as a digital audio player. Future modules will address obtaining digital/electronic books, using the BPP as a digital recorder and other features available within this device.

GENERAL BPP INFO

It takes 4 hours to fully charge and it can be used while it is charging

Once charged, it can last 8-10 hours

No need to save your place in each document/file

Only turn on once then use key lock to leave in standby (similar to a cell phone)

Factory set sleep mode is 2 minutes—if you are not listening to something or using the device in any other way, it goes to standby mode after 2 minutes.

UNDERSTANDING ENHANCED NAVIGATION:

Enhanced navigation means there are sections built into files (electronic/digital books) to make it easier to locate parts of the book or textbook

These types of files are referred to as Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) files

Unit 3 will cover the specifics of using DAISY file navigation

TYPES OF FILES STORED ON BPP

Text

-Electronic text, documents, .brf braille files,

web pages—that do not provide enhanced

navigation

-BPP provides the text navigation functions for

these files

Audio

-Music, podcasts and recordings with no

enhanced navigation

-BPP groups them into a single title and assigns

Title Navigation Commands (track to track)

TYPES OF FILES STORED ON BPP CONTINUED

Audio Books

-Books from Audible.com provides the

same navigation as Audio files, and

are grouped by title

DAISY

-Talking Book format that Provides

enhanced navigation

-BPP accepts two kinds: DAISY Text or

DAISY audio

COMPARISON OF THE TYPES OF FILES

T E X T

Is read with synthesized (computer created) speech

Words can be spelled

Provides movement by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph and page

Move by character, word and line only when paused

Move by sentence, paragraph and page any time

DAISY text provides additional Heading Level navigation

A U D I O

Reads/Plays material as recorded (human voice)

Provide movement by time

Moves by 5 seconds, 30 seconds, or 10 min.,

Audio files are considered ‘Tracks’, and folders ‘Albums’

DAISY audio provides additional Heading Level navigation (minimal)

MOVING CLOCK-WISE AROUND THE OUTSIDE EDGES OF THE BPP STARTING FROM THE

LEFT TOP CORNER.

On top edge: First hole is for a carrying strap, next Auxiliary Jack for Microphone, then Headphone Jack

On right edge: Volume Toggle, then Keylock—can use this to turn BBP on/off because it goes into sleep mode after 2 minutes of inactivity

On bottom edge: Mini USB port and AC power adapter Jack

On left edge: SD Card slot, then second hole for a carrying strap

BPP UPPER FACE—QUICK OVERVIEW (MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW)

Play/Pause/Enter

Power/Sleep Timer

Menu/Key Describer

Up Arrow

Right ArrowTitle Down Arrow

Bookmark

Left Arrow

Go To

Record

IDEAS FOR DESCRIBING THE LAYOUT TO

PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

Located 3 fingers from the speaker on the top of the BBP’s front face:Smooth oval key on left = RecordOval key with 2 bumps on right = Power/Sleep Timer

Center circle key = Play/Pause/Enter Surrounding circle key = Arrows (Up, Down, Right and Left)

IDEAS FOR DESCRIBING THE LAYOUT TO PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

(CONTINUED)

The 4 corner keys located around center circle (Play) and arrow keys are: upper left = Go to upper right = Menu/Key Describer lower left = Bookmark lower right = Title

ACTIVITY 1: TURNING ON YOUR BPP FOR THE FIRST TIME

Unlock if BPP is locked (slide Keylock switch on bottom right side so it is down)

On the upper right of face, find, press, and hold the green Power key (which has 2 tactual bumps) until it makes a noise and says, “Please Wait”.

You may wait for a few minutes with silence. Then you will hear tones, then music and eventually the voice will announce the location of the books (SD Card) and then list the titles (note: if the BPP has been used before, it will say the last book played)

Power Key

CHIMES ON THE BPP

When you hear music or chimes on the BPP, it either means it is loading something and you need to wait for a minute (such as when you turn it on for the first time)

OR it means you are in a menu and the BPP is waiting for you to make a selection.

ACTIVITY 2: TURN ON KEY DESCRIBER (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE)

To learn the keys without activating anything, use the Key Describer.

Turn on the Key Describer by locating the menu key directly below the power key, pressing and holding it until you hear “Key Describer On” (about 5-10 seconds).

Menu / Key Describer

ACTIVITY 2: TURN ON KEY DESCRIBER (CONTINUED)

With Key Describer on, any key you press will result in a description of what that key does, but the BPP will not perform what that key is describing. Using Key Describer is often easier than going to the internal help file to learn what each of the keys do.

If you accidently release the Menu key prematurely, you will enter the menu system. Press and quickly release the menu key a second time to exit the menu system. Then try turning Key Describer on again.

Leave Key Describer on and proceed to Activity 3 on the next slide.

ACTIVITY 3: EXPLORING ALL THE KEYS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

Now with Key Describer on, press and read along with the next 12 slides as it guides you through all of the keys.

Practice these until you feel confident about remembering the locations and functions of each of the keys.

POWER / SLEEP TIMER KEY

Press and hold to turn power on or off.

Also this key is used to set a timer which will stop plaSave mode after a set period of time.

Press repeatedly to cycle through the following sleep timer settings:

  Fifteen minutes

Thirty minutes

Forty-five minutes

One hour

One hour, thirty minutes

Two hours

Sleep timer off

Play / Stop (Enter) key:

Press to start or stop audio or text playback

Also used to make a selection from a menu or list.

RECORD KEY FUNCTIONS AS FOLLOWS:

Press and release to enter record pause (it is ready to record but it is paused).

While in record pause mode, press and release to start recording.

While recording, press and release to pause recording.

Press Enter/Play/Stop to stop recording.

Press and hold to record a voice memo. Release when finished.

 Note: Recording may be covered in more depth within a future module.

Record key

ARROW KEYS FUNCTIONS AS FOLLOWS (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE):

Up Arrow key: • Press to increase the playback speed

• Move up a line in text files that are paused.

• Hold to quickly increase the speed.

Down Arrow key:• Press to decrease the playback speed

• Move down a line in text files that are paused.

• Hold to quickly decrease the speed.

Up Arrow key

Down Arrow key

ARROW KEYS FUNCTIONS AS FOLLOWS (CONTINUED):

Left Arrow key: • Press to rewind 5 seconds in audio• Move back by letters in text files that are paused

Right Arrow key: • Press to fast forward 5 seconds in audio• Move to the next letter in text files that are paused

Left Arrow key

Right Arrow key

MENU / KEY DESCRIBER AND TITLE KEYS

Menu/Key Describer key: Press to open or close the menu

Hold for 5 seconds to turn on and off Key Describer

Title Key: Press once, then use left or right arrow to browse other titles

Press repeatedly to cycle among the SD Card, USB Drive and Voice Memos

Title key

Menu / Key Describer key

GO TO AND BOOKMARK KEYS

Go To key: Press repeatedly to jump directly to pages, headings or percentages

Bookmark key: Press repeatedly to move to, set and clear bookmarks (including ones with voice annotation)

Go To key

Bookmark key

BREAKING DOWN THE NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO SECTIONS: BOTTOM ROW

* Star Key- Cancel a selection

or undo last DAISY Navigation

0 Key- opens and closes entire HELP document, you can listen to this or just turn on Key Describer and press the key you want to know about, then turn Key Describer back off

# Key- Redo (Enter) and Undo

BREAKING DOWN THE NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO SECTIONS: LEFT SIDE REWIND (RW)

FUNCTIONS

1 Key- Audio/DAISY RW 30 Sec Text in play- RW paragraphs or 30 sec

Text in pause- RW by words

4 Key- Audio RW 10 minutes Text RW by pages

7 Key- Audio/DAISY RW by Track or Album Text RW by selected navigation level

(using 8 key to choose level)

BREAKING DOWN THE NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO SECTIONS: RIGHT SIDE FAST-

FORWARD (FF) FUNCTIONS3 Key- Audio FF 30 Sec Text in play- FF 30 sec or

paragraphs Text in pause- FF by words

6 Key- Audio FF 10 min Text FF by pages

9 Key- Audio FF Track or Album Text FF by selected navigation level (using 8 key to choose the level)

BREAKING DOWN THE NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO SECTIONS: CENTER ROW

2 Key- Settings, press repeatedly to scroll through Volume, Speed, Tone, Guide Speed, Guide Volume. Once on the preferred setting, then quickly use volume toggle to increase or decrease

5 Key- Information, press repeatedly to learn battery level, power source, and other title (book) information like: time elapsed in Audio and percentage elapsed in Text. Press and hold to hear the current time and date. (Center row information continues on the next slide)

BREAKING DOWN THE NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO SECTIONS: CENTER ROW CONTINUED

8 Key- Select Navigation in:

Audio titles- press repeatedly to cycle between track and album

DAISY titles- press repeatedly to cycle through the possibilities offered in the table of contents (such as special headings); then use ‘7’ and ‘9’ keys to move by the selected amount

Note: more specific information and examples about DAISY navigation will be addressed in Unit 3.

ACTIVITY 4: TURN KEY DESCRIBER OFF

Turn Key Describer off the same way you turned it on:

by locating the menu key directly below the power key and pressing it until you hear “Key Describer Off” (about 5 seconds).

Note: If you or a student cannot turn the BPP off, check to make sure that the Key Describer is OFF, because if Key Describer is ON, you will NOT be able to turn off the BPP.

ACTIVITY FIVE: NAVIGATIONAL KEYS(CONTINUED ON THE NEXT TWO

SLIDES)1. Press the zero key on the numeric keypad to enter

“help” mode. The user’s guide will begin to play.

2. Use the 1, 3, 4 and 6 keys on the numeric keypad to skip backward and forward through the text by various increments. Perform these same actions with the Rewind and Fast-Forward keys to note the differences in movement units between the three different sets of navigational keys.

3. Press the Play/Stop key to stop playback. Use the 1 and 3 keys to explore the document word by word. Use the 4 and 6 keys to explore the document line by line.

ACTIVITY FIVE: NAVIGATIONAL KEYS (CONTINUED)

4. Use the 7 and 9 keys to skip backward and forward by DAISY section headings. Note that these keys move to and announce the title of the next section in the document regardless of size but does not begin to play unless you press the Play/Stop key.

5. Press the Play/Stop key to start playback of the user’s guide. Use the 7 and 9 keys to skip backward and forward through the document section by section. Note that each press of these keys moves to the previous or next section, announces the title of the section and automatically resumes playback from that point.

6. Press the Play/Stop key to stop playback of the user’s guide. Press zero on the numeric keypad to exit help mode.

BOOK PORT PLUS UPPER FRONT FACE—QUICK REVIEW OF KEYS AND

FUNCTIONS

Play/Pause/Enter

Power/Sleep timer

Menu/Key Describer

Up Arrow: +Speed, Up Lines in paused Text

Right Arrow: Audio-FF 5 secText-FF Letter

Title: 1x all titles, repeatedly-diff. storage devices

Down Arrow: -Speed, Down Lines in paused Text

Bookmarks: move to, set, clear

Left Arrow: Audio RW 5 secText RW by letter

Go To: jump to pages by # or move by % of book

Record: hold and release for voice memos, use for voiced bookmarks, recordings

SELECTING A TITLE ON THE SD CARD

Press the Title key one time

This brings up a horizontal listing ofall titles (see next slide for an example)

Move to a title using the right or left Arrows

When you hear the desired title, press the Play/Stop/Enter key to choose that title and start reading

If you get LOST, press the *star key to CANCEL and START OVER

REPRESENTATION OF THE HORIZONTAL MENU:

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

Once the last title is reached, the menu will cycle back to the beginning in either direction.

The next slide shows common titles preloaded onto Book Ports.

OFTEN THE BOOK PORT HAS A FEW BOOKS ALREADY LOADED WHEN YOU FIRST RECEIVE IT:

Folder DAISY books: Title 1: BPP Quick Start Guide (Text)Title 2: History In The Making: The Story of the American Printing House for the Blind, 1858-2008 (Audio file)

Folder Text files:Title 3: Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandTitle 4: Through The Looking GlassTitle 5: Bartleby, the Scrivener- A Story of Wall-StreetTitle 6: Moby Dick or, the White WhaleTitle 7: Typee

ACTIVITY SIX: NAVIGATION IN AUDIO FILES1. Press the title key one time to enter the titles list.

2. Then use the left or right arrow key to locate the DAISY audio file titled “History in the Making: The Story of the American Printing House for the Blind, 1858-2008.”

3. Press Play/Stop to begin audio playback.

4. Use the Rewind, Fast-Forward, 1, 3, 4 and 6 keys to skip backward and forward through this book by various time intervals. Note the differences in movement between text and audio files.

5. Use the 7 and 9 keys to skip backward and forward by DAISY headings (which is only by chapters in this title). Note the similarity in DAISY navigation between text and audio files.

6. Press the Play/Stop key to stop playback.

SUGGESTIONS REGARDING WORKING WITH STUDENTS

With the synthesized (computer created, “robot-type”) voice, start with the voice slow and as the student gets used to it, increase the speed.

Start really slow with English Language Learner (ELL) students (who are not fluent in English yet) and/or some students with additional disabilities or learning difficulties.

ADJUSTING GUIDE VOICE

“Guide” is the voice when using menus on BPP

Press the “2” key repeatedly until you hear:

“GUIDE VOLUME”- Then quickly use the “volume toggle” to increase or decrease guide volume from -5 (lowest) to +5 (highest)

Press the “2” key repeatedly until you hear:

“GUIDE SPEED”- Then quickly use the “volume toggle” to increase or decrease guide speed from -2 (lowest) to +8 (highest)

ADJUSTING READING VOICE- DURING PLAYBACK

“VOLUME”- Press the “2” key repeatedly until you hear VOLUME. Then quickly use “volume toggle” to increase or decrease volume 1 to 25

“SPEED”- Press the “2” key repeatedly until you hear SPEED. Then quickly use “volume toggle” to increase or decrease speed -2 to +8

“TONE”- Press the “2” key repeatedly until you hear TONE. Then quickly use “volume toggle” to increase or decrease tone -6 to +6

During Playback and Pause—Up and Down Arrows are shortcuts to adjusting speed

ACTIVITY SEVEN: CHANGING SETTINGS

1. Use the Title key to select either an audio or text file from the SD card. Press Play/Stop to begin playback of your selection.

2. Use the 2 key, volume toggle switch and up/down arrow keys to explore the ranges of tone, volume, and speed for the reading and guide voices, as well as to set them to your preferences.

3. Press Play/Stop to stop playback. Again, use the same keys and toggle switch to adjust the tone, volume and speed parameters. Note that if playback is stopped the value of the parameter is announced each time the toggle is pressed, e.g., “Volume plus 3” or “Speed normal.”

ACTIVITY EIGHT: REVIEW OF NAVIGATION

1. Practice going forward and backward in this title using the keys on the left and right of the numeric keypad discussed earlier in this presentation which are reviewed in the next four slides.

2. Use a different title and practice the same skills. If you used a DAISY audio title, try a text file and vice versa.

LEFT AND RIGHT ARROW KEYS

During playback-- Moves backward and forward by 5 seconds

During pause (in a text file)--Moves backward and forward by a single letter/ character

This enables students to figure out the spelling of words they hear, such as vocabulary terms or unfamiliar names when taking notes

REVIEW NAVIGATION : 1ST ROW, LEFT AND RIGHT COLUMNS OF NUMERIC KEYPAD,

REWIND (RW) AND FAST-FORWARD (FF) BY MATCHING INCREMENTS

1 KEY

Audio- Rewind (RW) 30 seconds (sec.)

Text in play- RW by

paragraphs in pause- RW by

words

3 KEY

Audio- Fast-Forward (FF) 30 Seconds (sec.)

Text in play- FF by

paragraphs in pause- FF by words

REVIEW NAVIGATION : 2ND ROW, LEFT AND RIGHT COLUMNS OF NUMERIC KEYPAD, REWIND (RW) AND FAST-FORWARD (FF)

BY MATCHING INCREMENTS

4 KEY

Audio RW 10 min.

Text RW by pages

6 KEY

Audio FF 10 min.

Text FF by pages

REVIEW NAVIGATION : 3RD ROW OF NUMERIC KEYPAD

8 K E Y

Chooses Level in more complex books such as textbooks

*Note: This varies for every title/book depending on how the publisher made the electronic file.

7 K E Y A N D 9 K E Y

Move backward and forward depending on the level chosen with the 8 key

*Play with this while following along with a print copy to help define the levels for your student.

SUMMARY (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE):

This unit has been designed to provide a general introduction to the BPP and its basic playback functions as well as briefly introduce some more advanced features. Upon successful completion, you should be able to:identify the two main functions of the BPPidentify the types of files or materials that can be used on the BPP

identify all of the jacks and interfaces located around the edges of the device

turn the unit on and off

SUMMARY (CONTINUED):identify the location and function of each key on the BPP

turn on and off Key Describer on the BPPchoose either a text or audio title from the selection stored on the SD card

play and stop/pause a selected title use the navigational numeric keypad keys to skip backward and forward within a title

adjust the settings, such as volume, speed and tone, on the BPP for the reading voice and the guide voice