2. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR BOOK PORT DESKTOP (BPDT)

3. GENERAL BOOK PORT DESKTOP (BPDT) INFO. BPDT has two main functions:  Digital/Audio player  Digital recorder This module will focus on the BPDT as a digital audio player. Future modules will address obtaining digital/electronic books, using the BPDT as a digital recorder and other features available within this device.

4. GENERAL BPDT 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 Enters “power-save” mode after:  15 minutes of inactivity  after the time set with the sleep timer control expires  when you press and hold the power key for 2 seconds

5. 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

6. TYPES OF FILES STORED ON BPDT Text -Electronic text, documents,.brf braille files, web pages—that do not provide enhanced navigation -DT provides the text navigation functions for these files Audio -Music, podcasts and recordings with no enhanced navigation -DT groups them into a single title and assigns Title Navigation Commands

7. TYPES OF FILES STORED ON BPDT 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 -DT accepts two kinds: DAISY Text and DAISY audio

8. COMPARISON OF THE TYPES OF FILES TEXT Is read with synthesized (computer created) speech Words can be spelled Provides movement by character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, page, and percentage Move by character, word and line only when paused Move by sentence, paragraph and page any time DAISY text provides additional Heading Level navigation AUDIO Reads/Plays material as recorded (human voice) Provide movement by time or percentage 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 )

9. BPDT BASICS A “mask” is provided to conceal all but the keys for basic operation This layout is for students who may have cognitive or physical impairments that make it difficult to learn and interact with all the keys displayed at once. The first part of this unit assumes that the mask is installed on the BPDT. This is how your BPDT will look when you receive it.

10. ORIENTATION: Place the BPDT on a flat surface with the keys facing up. The device is slightly wedge-shaped with the front edge being slightly thinner than the rear edge. Orient the device so the thin side is closest to you and the thicker side is to the rear.

11. Rear Edge: Wired network jack AC (power) adapter Left Edge: No interfaces Front Edge: USB connector/National Library Service cartridge slot Right Edge: SD/SDHC memory card slot Earphone jack external microphone jack GENERAL LAYOUT: STARTING AT THE RIGHT, REAR CORNER AND MOVING CLOCKWISE AROUND THE VERTICAL EDGES OF THE DEVICE, THE FOLLOWING JACKS AND INTERFACES ARE ENCOUNTERED:

12. TOP SURFACE OF BPDT WITH MASK IN PLACE There are three distinct openings in the mask: the first one runs along the front edge of the player and extends part-way up the right side the second opening is in the upper right-hand corner the third opening is near the rear edge of the player slightly left of center The first and third openings reveal controls while the second (in the upper right-hand corner) reveals the speaker grill which can be easily tactually identified as a series of horizontal lines or bars.

13. CONTROLS IN THE FIRST OPENING IN THE MASK: Rewind Play / Stop Fast Forward Previous Title Next Title Record Power Sleep Timer

14. CONTROLS IN THE SECOND & THIRD OPENING IN THE MASK: Tone: up and down Volume: up and down Speaker

15. There are three distinct markings on the mask which help identify the locations of commonly used controls and interfaces: A dimple in the front edge of the mask = play/stop key (immediately above it) and the NLS cartridge slot (immediately below it). A notch in the left edge of the mask = the earphone jack (immediately below it on the left edge of the unit). A similar notch in the right edge of the mask = the power key (immediately to the left). TACTUAL MARKINGS ON THE MASK:

16. BASIC CONTROLS: POWER KEY Pressing and holding this key for approximately two seconds will turn the player on. The unit will announce the time followed, after a few seconds of busy tones, by the last title accessed. If the unit is on, pressing and holding the power button for approximately two seconds will put the unit in sleep mode with the announcement “power save mode.”

17. ACTIVITY ONE: TURNING ON THE BPDT 1. Locate the power key, which is the large, round button near the right edge of the unit. Press and hold it for about two seconds to turn on the player. It responds with a musical fanfare and a "Please Wait" message followed by a series of musical tones indicating that the unit is busy. 2. The first time you turn on the BPDT, it must boot up. This can take several seconds. When it finishes the boot process, it announces the first book in the Title list. 3. After this initial start-up, subsequent start-up times are much shorter and begin with the unit announcing the current time followed by the busy tones followed by an announcement of the last title accessed.

18. BASIC CONTROLS: PLAY/STOP Play/Stop: Press to start or stop audio or text playback. Press and hold to enter or exit “help mode” (provides access to the user’s guide). Also used to make a selection from a menu or list.

19. BASIC CONTROLS: REWIND Rewind: During audio playback, a single press moves backward five seconds. Press and hold to move back in increasingly larger increments of time. In text playback, a single press moves back by one sentence. Press and hold to move back in increments of five sentences. If playback is paused, a single press moves back by and announces a single character.

20. BASIC CONTROLS: FAST FORWARD Fast Forward: During audio playback, a single press moves forward five seconds. Press and hold to move forward in increasingly larger increments of time. In text playback, a single press moves forward by one sentence. Press and hold to move forward in increments of five sentences. If playback is paused, a single press moves forward by and announces a single character.

21. KEY LOCK: Press and hold Rewind and Fast- Forward simultaneously to turn on the key lock. This disables all controls to prevent accidental or unintended key presses. Press and hold Rewind and Fast- Forward again to turn off key lock mode. Note that key lock can be invoked during audio or text playback, but must be disabled before playback can be stopped or any other function can be used.

22. TITLE SELECT KEYS: Immediately to the right of the Play/Stop, Rewind and Fast- Forward Key cluster are two triangular or arrow-shaped buttons, one pointing to the left and one pointing to the right. These are used to move through the list of titles stored on the various types of media used with the BPDT. The left-pointing key moves backward and the right- pointing key moves forward through the list of titles on the selected media source.

23. USING TITLE SELECT KEYS TO CHANGE BETWEEN MEDIA SOURCES Pressing both title select keys simultaneously cycles through the various types of storage media used with the device. The list is as follows: Internal memory Voice memos SD card USB media

24. AVAILABLE MEDIA RESOURCES: The device is shipped with no SD card or USB media and there are no recorded voice memos. The internal memory, however, contains a sampling of audio and text titles as well as a number of web radio stations and podcast feeds. Note: Web radio and podcasts are beyond the scope of this unit and may be covered in a future module.

25. 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 and hold to record a voice memo. Release when finished. Note: Recording may be covered within a future module.

26. SLEEP TIMER KEY: This is used to set a timer which will stop playback and place the unit in power save mode after a set period of time. Repeatedly press the key until the desired amount of time is announced. The choices are: Fifteen minutes Thirty minutes Forty-five minutes One hour One hour, thirty minutes Two hours Sleep timer off

27. TONE CONTROL: To adjust the tone of both the built- in speaker as well as the earphones, press either the upper or lower half of the tone toggle once or repeatedly until the desired sound is achieved. Pressing the upper half of the control increases the treble response while reducing the bass response and pressing the lower half of the control increases bass and reduces treble. Pressing both halves of the control simultaneously returns the tone to the default setting.

28. VOLUME CONTROL: The volume control works similarly to the tone control. The upper half of the control increases the volume while the lower half decreases it. Pressing both halves simultaneously returns the volume to the default setting.

29. ACTIVITY TWO: USING THE MASKED BPDT (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE) 1. Turn on the BPDT. 2. Press and hold the Play/Stop key until the player announces “help on.” The user’s guide will start to play. 3. Use the tone and volume controls to adjust these parameters, including returning them to their default settings. 4. Use the Rewind and Fast-Forward keys to skip backward and forward through the text. Press and hold each control to rapidly move through the text in increments of five sentences. 5. Press the Play/Stop key to stop playback. Use the Rewind and Fast-Forward controls to explore the text character by character.

30. ACTIVITY TWO: USING MASKED BPDT (CONTINUED) 6. When you are comfortable with the location and use of these controls, press and hold the Play/Stop key until the player announces “help off.” 7. Use the Previous and Next Title keys to explore the selections stored on the unit’s internal memory. 8. Select either a text or DAISY title and press Play/Stop to start playback. 9. Repeat steps 4 and 5 on the previous slide. Note the differences in the way the Rewind and Fast-Forward keys work in a DAISY audio file versus a text file. 10. Press Play/Stop to stop playback. 11. Continue practicing with various files until you are comfortable with the operation of all the keys including playback, title selection, tone and volume controls.

31. UNMASKING THE BPDT: To remove the mask: Locate the tabs which are near the front corners on both the left and right sides of the unit. Pull both tabs out slightly and lift the front edge of the mask up until the tabs clear the sides. Swing the mask up and toward the rear until the rear tabs release from their notches, freeing it from the device. Be sure to store the mask in a safe location for reuse as needed. Note: The mask fits very securely on the player and requires a little effort to remove and replace. It may require practice before this can be performed smoothly and quickly.

32. REINSTALLING THE MASK ON THE BP DT: Insert the rear tabs into their corresponding notches in the rear edge of the unit and swing it down into place. You may have to pull out slightly on the front tabs to get them to clear the sides of the unit. Push down on the front of the mask until the front tabs snap into place.

33. NEWLY REVEALED CONTROLS (HIGHLIGHTED): Tone Control Rewind Menu Media Go To Bookmark Volume Sleep Timer Information Speed

34. ADVANCED CONTROLS: What follows is a brief explanation of the functions of the newly revealed controls. The functions of many of these controls are beyond the scope of this introductory module and may be fully explained in a future module. More complete explanations of all of these controls can also be found in the player’s user’s guide. Menu: Used to enter and exit the unit’s menu system. Press and hold for five seconds to turn on and turn off the key describer. Media: Cycles through the various types of storage media used with the device (internal memory, voice memos, SD card, USB media). Performs the same function achieved by pressing the Previous and Next title keys together. Go To: Jump directly to a heading, page number or percentage within a title depending on the file format.

35. ADVANCED CONTROLS CONTINUED: Book Mark: Go to, set and clear book marks within a title, including book marks with recorded comments. Speed: Used to adjust the playback speed for both audio and text titles. Press the upper half of the toggle control to increase the speed and the lower half to reduce it. Press both halves simultaneously to return the speed parameter to “normal.” Information: Press once to hear a summary of the player’s status, including battery level, network information, download status, etc. as well as specific information about the currently-selected title. Press repeatedly to hear this information in smaller sections. Press and hold to have the current time and date announced.

36. Rewind group: 1: Moves back thirty seconds in an audio file. Moves back by paragraphs while a text document is being read, if reading has been paused, moves back word by word. 4: Moves back ten minutes in an audio file. Moves back by pages while a text document is being read, if reading has been paused, moves back line by line. 7: Moves back by heading in a DAISY text or audio file. Moves back by track or album in non-DAISY audio playback. NUMERIC KEYPAD:

37. Fast-forward group: 3: Moves forward thirty seconds in an audio file. Moves forward by para- graphs while a text document is being read, if reading has been paused, moves forward word by word. 6: Forward ten minutes in an audio file. Moves forward by pages while a text document is being read, if reading has been paused, moves forward line by line. 9: Moves forward by heading in a DAISY text or audio file. Moves forward by track or album in non-DAISY audio playback. NUMERIC KEYPAD:

38. Remaining center group: 2: This is a modifier key, like shift on a keyboard. Holding this key down while changing the volume/speed, modifies these setting for the guide voice (the voice for the menus and the built-in user’s guide). 5: Currently unassigned. 8: Used to set the level of DAISY navigation during playback of DAISY audio or text files. Used with the 7 and 9 keys to perform DAISY navigation. Selects either track or album movement during non-DAISY audio playback. Note: A full explanation of the DAISY audio/text file formats will be covered in unit 3. NUMERIC KEYPAD:

39. Remaining bottom group: * (asterisk): Cancels a selection or operation. Undo the last DAISY navigation during DAISY audio or text playback. 0: Opens and closes the built-in help. Performs the same function as pressing and holding the Play/Stop key. # (pound sign): Select or enter key. Will redo an undo. NUMERIC KEYPAD:

40. 1. Press and hold the menu key for about 5 seconds until the player announces “Key describer on.” Note: If you accidently release the Menu key prematurely, you will enter the menu system. Simply press the Menu key a second time or the asterisk key on the numeric keypad to exit the menus and try entering Key Describer again. ACTIVITY THREE: KEY DESCRIBER (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE)

41. ACTIVITY THREE: KEY DESCRIBER (CONTINUED): 2. Press another key on the player to hear a brief announcement of what the key does without performing the action described. 3. Continue pressing and listening to the descriptions of all of the remaining keys (including the menu key) until you are familiar with the locations and functions of all of the keys on the BPDT. 4. When you have finished, press and hold the Menu key until the player announces “Key describer off.”

42. ACTIVITY FOUR: 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 re-familiarize yourself with these controls and to note the differences in movement units between the three different sets of movement 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.

43. ACTIVITY FOUR: 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 Play/Stop 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 Play/Stop to stop playback of the user’s guide. Press zero on the numeric keypad to exit help mode.

44. ACTIVITY FOUR: NAVIGATIONAL KEYS (CONTINUED) 7. Using the Previous and Next title keys, select one of the text documents stored in the player’s internal memory. Press Play/Stop to begin playback of your selection. 8. Repeat steps 2 and 3 from two slides ago, to continue familiarizing yourself with the navigational controls. Note that the text documents shipped on the player contain no DAISY markup so pressing either the 7 or 9 key will result in an error tone sounding. Playback will resume from the point at which the key was pressed. 9. When you have finished practicing with the navigational controls, press Play/Stop to stop playback of the document.

45. ACTIVITY FIVE: NAVIGATION IN AUDIO FILES 1. Use the Previous and Next title keys to locate the DAISY audio file stored in the player’s internal memory. At this writing, it is titled “History in the Making: The Story of the American Printing House for the Blind, 1858-2008.” Press Play/Stop to begin audio playback. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Press the Play/Stop key to stop playback.

46. ACTIVITY SIX : CHANGING SETTINGS (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDE) 1. Use the Previous and Next title keys to select either an audio or text file from the unit’s internal memory. Press Play/Stop to begin playback of your selection. 2. Use the Tone, Volume and Speed toggle controls to explore the ranges of these parameters as well as to set them to your preferences. Remember that pressing the up and down portions of a control simultaneously will reset that parameter to its default setting. 3. Press Play/Stop to stop playback. Again, use the toggles 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.”

47. ACTIVITY SIX: CHANGING SETTINGS (CONTINUED) 4. Press and hold the 2 key on the numeric keypad. Use the volume and speed toggles to adjust these parameters for the player’s guide voice. Note how these adjustments effect the announcement of the parameters’ values. 5. Press the Information key and listen as the player’s status as well as specific information regarding the selected title is spoken. Press the Information key repeatedly to skip through this information section by section. 6. Repeatedly press the Sleep Timer key to cycle through the available values for this parameter. Be sure to continue pressing the key until you hear the player announce “Sleep timer off.” 7. Press and hold the Power key until the player announces “Power-save mode,” turning the player off.

48. 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.

49. SUMMARY (CONTINUED ON THE NEXT SLIDES): This unit has been designed to provide a general introduction to the BPDT 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 BPDT identify the types of files or materials that can be used on the BPDT identify all of the jacks and interfaces located around the edges of the device locate and understand the functions of all of the basic controls available when the unit’s mask is in place.

50. SUMMARY (CONTINUED): turn the unit on and off adjust the unit’s tone and volume enter and exit the unit’s help system through use of the Play/Stop key select either a text or audio title from the selection stored in the internal memory play a selected title and skip backward and forward through the file using the Rewind and Fast-Forward keys

51. SUMMARY (CONTINUED): Additionally, you should be familiar with the following more advanced controls and concepts: all of the keys on the BPDT as revealed by removing the mask entering and exiting “Key Describer” mode through use of the Menu key enhanced navigation, including basic DAISY navigation adjusting playback speed adjusting the volume and speed of the guide voice use of the Information key and Sleep Timer