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Narrator:  When you take the BrailleNote out of the white box that it came in the first thing you’ll note is that is covered in a protective case.  We’re going to remove that so you can see what the inside of the housing looks like.  It velcros from the front and the top flips to the back.  It also has a long carrying strap that’s designed to be snugged up shorter or longer depending on how you want to transport it.  Some students may find it useful to have it snugged up short around their neck so they can still continue to use it while they are walking.  Others may find it more useful to have it slung over the shoulder when carrying from class to class.  
To remove the BrailleNote from the outside case you feel along the back edge and then move your fingers laterally to the sides, there will be a little button, a little snap and you want to unsnap that.  It also has Velcro so you basically pull up and away so that it opens out and you want to gingerly slide the BrailleNote back.  It will take a little bit of fussing to get it through initially.  It’s important not to snag any of the buttons as you pull it through.  Once it’s out of the case we’ll show you the full device.  
The model you see here is a BrailleNote mPower Model BT which is a Braille input with an 18 cell display.  There is also a BrailleNote QT Model which is the qwerty input and in this particular case it has a full 32 cell Braille display.  This model could also come in the 18.  If it had no Braille whatsoever it would be the Voice Note which is also a model available from the manufacturer.  
Without the black carrying case we can explore the outside housing of the BrailleNote unit.  The first thing on the BrailleNote we’re going to look at the front side closest to your stomach if you have it sitting on a table in front of you.  There are four buttons.  They’re called thumb keys.  We have an exit button, a previous button, next or advance and this one is a next and select button.  I’ll explain later when we’re in menus how to use those four to navigate forward and back to get through your various selections.  
Rotating your BrailleNote on the left hand side moving from the front towards the back first thing you’ll find slightly recessed is a small little button, that is for recording.  This is an improvement from the previous model of BrailleNote.  This one has a built-in microphone when you press it and I’ll show you where the microphone is located.  But you can record short or long sessions of audio tape.  Following two jacks the closest one is actually the earphone jack; the second one is if you desire to plug in an external microphone if you wanted to do some more advanced recordings.  Following that is the off/on switch, and behind that is a reset button.  Typically the reset button is not used however there are a few times where this would be a necessary feature to know about.  
Moving onto the back continuing from that same edge and curving away onto the back side the first thing you will find is a small recessed hole with a square shape around it.  That one is the AC adaptor for charging.  It also runs off of the charger so if you have run out of battery you can continue to work on your BrailleNote while it is plugged in.  Following that to the left is a USB mini port.  It designed to plug in a USB cable for connecting the BrailleNote to a computer.  Below that there is a slot that runs parallel to the table if you have it flat and sitting.  This slot is designed for the SD card.  Like all devices that take an SD card the card slides in and press in until it clicks.  To remove you would press in again and it would pop out.  
The SD card is a very useful tool for travelling with your data without having to bring the full device with you or for transferring data without having to connect through the USB mini cable.  To the left of the SD slot is a compact flash slot.  This can be used for various purposes.  One would be to use a compact flash card to transfer data or move data off and on the device.  There are also adapters that can be used with this which we explained earlier such as the internet and you can also use wireless cards with this.  To the left is a serial port.  This is to connecting to various devices such as embossers as well as to a computer if you want to use a visual display.  Both of those will be talked about in a future module.  
To the left of the serial port are two USB ports stacked one on top of the other.  It doesn’t really matter what device you are plugging in to which port.  They will both recognize various devices plugged in such as USB mini drives as well as a variety of USB printers.  To the left of that is the modem.  That’s designed if you want to do dial-up for internet access.  The last thing on the back side you’ll find as you move your finger along the backside past the modem is a small, flat, plastic window.  In color it is slightly red and dark.  This is an infrared port for transferring data off of your device or receiving files.  This can be useful in certain situations for example in wireless printing. 
In rotating the device on the now right hand side as we continue our tour around the back this side has a small recessed button as well as a slot.  The slot is the PCM/CIA slot for various different cards you can slide in for putting in different peripheral devices.  The recessed button is to eject the device if you are no longer using it.  All right, we are turning to the front. All we’re going to do now is to flip it to its back side, the underneath portion.  Other than the four rubber feet that you can feel a few other parts of the housing.  There should be the serial number written in Braille as well as a print section and the manufacturer’s serial number. Back to the top side of the model.  This is being the BT edition.  As I said earlier this one has an 18 cell Braille display.  You will see the six keys of Braille, dots 1, 2, 3, and dots 4, 5, 6 and the space bar.  If you’re already a Braille user those should be very familiar to you. 
 In addition to those there’s also dots 7 which is on the far left side and dot 8.  In the application of the BrailleNote dot 8 or the one on the far right would serve as the enter key on various menus.  Also if you are in a Word document it would take you to the next line.  Dot 7 on the far left hand side would be a back key or in the case of a word processing document would be backspace and would erase what you previously wrote. 
In the top far left hand corner is a small hole.  That is where the microphone is.  In the center is the speaker and as you go down to the bottom of the device you will see the refreshable Braille display.  The last feature to note on the Braille display is that there are eight dots that would appear.  The top six being dots 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6 would represent various Braille characters.  Dots 7 and 8 would be your Braille cursor or other various menu items that which appear along the bottom.
If you’re using the device as a Braille display which is another feature it can use which we will be talking about later.  It can be connected to a computer and dots 7 and 8 would also indicate underline.  Above each Braille display is also a router button.  If you wanted to move your cursor in a document you simply find your spot on the Braille move your finger up along the curser and press down.  Your cursor would then appear on dots 7 and 8.
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