Resources to Support InclusionIf not me – who?

If not now – when?

www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk

RSC SW Scotland Services

Scottish RSCs Inclusion BlogInclusion in e-Learning Forum (sharing good practice)

RSCtv iTunes PodcastsGot a yearning for e-Learning? JISC AskEvents and Training

JISC Advisory Services

Advice on all aspects of plagiarism prevention

& detection

Advice with still images, moving images and sound

advice

Advice on all aspects of technology& inclusion

Internet training workshops, online self- paced tutorials

Effectivestrategic planning, implementation

& management of ICT

Strategic guidance& advice

re legal issues in ICT

Techdis

The JISC TechDis service advises on the use oftechnology to support inclusive practice inThis includes advice and guidance for

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SFC Infact Database - www.sfc.ac.uk/infact

Inclusion/Empowerment by EveryoneNot just the Learning Support Staff

Inclusion for Everyonebecause things are not always as they seembecause things are not always as they seem

ProvidingProvidingenabling technology enabling technology

solutions should not belong solely solutions should not belong solely to support specialists any to support specialists any more than accessibility ormore than accessibility orinclusion should belonginclusion should belong

exclusivelyexclusivelyto disabled peopleto disabled people

‘I cant read the information on the screen.’ ‘The information on the screen is too small to see.’ ‘I can’t adjust the font and colour backgrounds to

suit my personal preferences.’ ‘The words keep jumping around the screen.’ ‘I find it difficult to navigate.’ ‘I can’t click the mouse buttons.’ ‘I can’t see the keys on the keyboard.’ ‘I keep miss-hitting the keyboard keys.’

Issues for students accessing learning resources

I don’t have the motor skills/can’t see itPhysiological

Psychological I can’t do it

Learning style It would make more sense in pictures

Perceptual They look the same to me

Cognitive I can’t get my head round it

Linguistic What does that actually mean?

Accessible for whom?Disability is not the only barrier

How They Learn

Reflect on knowledge or skill

Write responses

Interact withresources

Record information

Plan responses

Reading Tools

Alternative Interfaces

Recording Tools

Planning Tools

Communication Tools

What They Do How To Help

Visualisation Tools

Writing Tools

Introduce new knowledge or skill

Exemplify new knowledge or skill

Test understanding of new knowledge or skill by completing specific assignments

Reflect on knowledge or skill

Enabling technologies supporting all learners

Process, tasks and tools

Access Toolshttp://tiny.cc/accesstools

EduAppshttp://tiny.cc/eduapps274

Free & Portable Enabling Technologies

My Study Barhttp://tiny.cc/studybar

What’s on the USB AccessApps?

Open Office

Planning and Organising Tools

Reading and Writing Support

Visual Support

Accessible Browsers

Keyboard and Mouse Alternatives

Multimedia Resources

Presentation Tools

Learning Games

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AccessApps storage facility. Use these folders to store the work you produce with AccessApps.

AccessApps applications.whenever you click on a folder item or a menu item, the AccessApps start menu will move to the background.

Short ActivityIn small groups, take a bunch ofenabling technology descriptionsand read the outline of what thesoftware can do.

Consider these descriptions in the context of the students youhave come across in the last academic year.

As a group, come up with 3 or 4 resources that you think would orcould have helped people you haveworked with. What are they and how would they have helped

If you are a manager, are there any that might have helped any of the staff you work with?

Open Office

Back

You can save your OpenOffice Writer files as Word-compatible documents.

OpenOffice Impress is the equivalent of PowerPoint

Open Office - What do Students think

 www.lexdis.org

“With my budget computer at home, I found it difficult to do college work because I did not have MS Word at home so I had to use word pad which I didn't like to

use because it did not offer me the right tools to complete work”Guy a student at Coatbridge College

Planning & Organisational Tools

xMindMozilla Sunbird - Calendar Hott Notes 4 – Sticky Notes

Back

Visual Support

Vu Bar – read text one line at a timeT-Bar - a colour bar with shadingDesktop Zoom screen magnifierVirtual magnifying glass

DyslexiaScotopic sensitivity and visual difficulties experienced

by many learners with dyslexia

Issues for Dyslexic People?

TechDis Sim Dis Simultations

Reading and Writing SupportRapidSet

Is part of AccessApps ssOverlay orT-Bar part of My Study Bar

http://www.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/

Rapid Set helping a member of staff in the workplace

Power Talklearn more about PowerTalk

PowerTalk does a good job of making any presentation more accessible by automatically speaking the text. It can narrate animated text as it appears and will also speak PowerPoint's 'Web Alternative Text' intended for Web Browser use. Thus apart from being an accessibility tool in its right PowerTalk can be used to test how a presentation will sound with a other tools such as screen readers.

Hands on Activity• Take your pen drive and insert into your USB port.Have a look at the software and the activity sheet.Try out on or two of the following:

RapidSetVu BarOpen Office SuiteHott Notes

No notes exist as yet but you could also play with these:XmindT-Bar

DSpeech

Dspeech will hook Dspeech will hook into the speech into the speech engine on any engine on any

windows PC you windows PC you use use and will will

either read out either read out text or convert to text or convert to

MP3MP3

WordTalk

www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/

  

WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes.

Talking dictionary to help decide which word spelling is most appropriate. Sits neatly in toolbar, highly configurable, adjust the highlight colours, the voice and the speed of the speech. WordTalk does not export the file as a stand-alone MP3.

    

Other web based text to speech converters

Zamzar – www.zamzar.comRead the Words - www.readthewords.com/Spoken Text - http://www.spokentext.net/RoboBraille - www.robobraille.org/frontpage

Readonwebwww.readonweb.com/

• CleanPage™ extracts the main content from a cluttered webpage and allows you to do the following:

• Browse, save, print, edit, and email the main text

• Let your PC read the main text out loud

• Speed read the main text• Zoom in and zoom out

Accessible Browsers• WebbIE – Text Based Browser

Use in collaboration with Thunder Screen Reader*

Typical Web PageSame Web Page using WebbIE

Click N Type and Mouse Tools may assist for users with mobility issues or RSI

problems

Keyboard and Mouse AlternativesDasher (Case Study)

Click on the image below to see a demonstrationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6yIquOKQ0

Dasher is a information-efficient communication system driven by continuous pointing gestures.

Instead of using a keyboard, the user writes by continuous steering, zooming into a landscape painted with letters.

Dasher can be driven by a regular mouse, by touch-screen, or by gaze-direction.

Hands on Activity

• Have a look at the software and the activity sheet.

• Try out on or two of the following:DspeechDasherClick N TypeMouse Tools

Multimedia and Presentation ToolsAudacity records and editing audioWhat do educators think of this:• Use this all the time for audio, no other tool is as good• A great free (open source) tool for creating and editing audio files• A well focused tool that academics and student can pick up easily. It's very

portable• and this is important for digital audio where many users want to work in private

spaces• Free and easy to create classroom podcasts and mp3s where the students get to

hear edit and publish themselves. Promotes ownership extremely motivating.�• ‘back up ‘ for lecture, for listening in ‘dead time’

Multimedia and Presentation Tools

• Cam Studio – record all screen and audio activity to create avi/flash multimedia learning resources

• VLC Media Player – cross platform media player• AudioBook Cutter – splits mp3 sound files to

make them easier to listen to in smaller chunks

Unfreez to Create Mobile PromptsWork on most mobile devicesNo stigma attached to mobile learning

most people have a mobile device discreetcurrentPortable

• Two pieces of software neededMicrosoft PowerPoint (everyday resource)

to create a series of gifsunFREEz (on accessapps)

to create the animated gifhttp://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

Matt Harrison of Portland College and

Alistair McNaught of TechDis

Key Ring Digital Photo Frames

• For some learners the phone was difficult to use

• So the system has been transferred to mini digital photo frames

• Small • Easy to use• Cheap

Applications

• Timetables• Travel training

– Landmarks along the way• Health and Safety

– Manual handling sequences, COSHH etc.• Sequences

– Daily routines, specific task

And, don’t forget….• Fun!

If we buy our own pen drives, where canwe get access to download the material?

What can I do with EduApps?

• Automatic launch - I can launch applications to start as soon as I put my pen drive in my machine.

• Multiple launch - I can launch multiple applications at the same time.

What if I don’t want to use a pen drive?• I could run it from a word document.• I could run it from a PowerPoint.

What if I don’t want to use a pen drive

• I could run it from a word document.• I could run it from a PowerPoint

My Web PreferencesStylesheets to change how you view Internet Explorer

What Next?

Where can I find out more about the AccessApps?

http://www.scottish-rscs.org.uk/access

Other resources from JISC to help you create inclusive

environments for staff and students

e-Books = books with wings• E-Books for FE JISC funded (JISC Collections). Access to e-

books selected by the FE community in the UK. Free of charge to all FE colleges in the UK with access to a core collection of e-books. http://fe.jiscebooksproject.org

Where can we find out more about e-books?• Many e-books are in the public domain on sites like

Project Gutenberg. The JISC TechDis website section “Getting information in Alternative Formats - A guide for students and tutors” has a section focused on ways learners can obtain e-books and adapt them to their own needs. See www.techdis.ac.uk/getebooks.

www.publisherlookup.org.uk/

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TechDis are at an early stage of planning an extension of PublisherLookup as well as starting a new bit of work with librarians to explore accessibility of online library catalogues and working with ProcureWeb to raise the bar on best practice

Obtaining textbooks in alternative formats

Teaching inclusively using technologyNew learning resources now available online.

Each module shows how resourcesand methods can be adapted with technology to deliver teaching more inclusively to the widest possible audience.

The modules in the JISC TechDis ‘Teaching Inclusively Using Technology’ sseries have five constituent elements:

Preparing Your Learning Delivering Learning (Lecture/Classroom) Delivering Learning (Practical/Fieldwork/Placement) Delivering Learning (Online) Assessing Learning

http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getteachinginclusively

Web2AccessWeb2Access is a JISC-funded project which allows developers and users to see at a glance the usability and accessibility of interactive and collaborative e-learning tools.Web2Access is based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) and explores a range of popular tools such as You Tube or Twitter and more. Each tool is given an average score based on issues such as image attributes, text editors, multimedia and appropriate use of tables and frames.http://www.web2access.org.uk/

http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/

Find advice on making accessible materials

Provide more agile mobile and Provide more agile mobile and remote learning opportunitiesremote learning opportunities

• http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getm-learning• Upwardly Mobile• Go Mobile• MoleNet• Mole TV

www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/LexDis

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http://inclusivity.rsc-yh.ac.uk/

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Better use of existing resources: Better use of existing resources: going beyond handoutsgoing beyond handouts

Accessibility Essentials Series

• Making your computer more accessible for you

•Producing MS Word documents that are more accessible

•Producing inclusive MS PowerPoint

•Making PDFs as accessible as possible 1.21

Follow this link to view an example of guidelines from Accessibility

Essentials

www.techdis.ac.uk/resources/sites/accessibilityessentials2

Questions?Questions?