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Unlocking Potential
Hartlepool CollegeShareIT Conference
Quick Wins:
Using Technology for Inclusion
Dr Simon Ball [email protected]
Twitter: @simonjball
Second Life: Norinbath Rasmuson
www.techdis.ac.uk
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Productivity
• We all want to be more efficient• We want the student experience to be more
valuable, interesting, and inclusive• We want to expand our horizons and be
more creative• But…
• Where do we get the time?• Where do we get the money?
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Part of the solution…
• There is no ‘magic bullet’• But technology can:
• Be easy to learn and use (i.e. small time investment),
• Be free (and/or Open Source),• Provide inclusion opportunities
• There is something every one of us can do, and if we all do that something, the result will be very powerful
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OASESwww.techdis.ac.uk/getOASES
• Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service• Designed to take you through key elements of
your role in terms of accessibility, providing links to further information.
• When completed, you can benchmark your own practice against others in the sector.
• Surveys for: Senior Managers, Marketing, Staff Development, Learning Tech, Learning Resources, Learner Support, IT/Networks
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10 Handy resources for harnessing the power of free productivity tools in your
everyday practice
1. Accessibility Essentials www.techdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials 2. Teaching Inclusively www.techdis.ac.uk/getTeachingInclusively
3. Self Evaluation Toolkit www.techdis.ac.uk/getOASES
4. Senior Manager Inclusion Guidance www.techdis.ac.uk/getbriefings
5. Free Software www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware 6. Alternative Formats www.techdis.ac.uk/getaltformat
7. Case Studies (HEAT scheme) www.techdis.ac.uk/getheatscheme
8. Getting started: Mobile Learning www.techdis.ac.uk/upwardlymobile
9. Creating Accessible Learning Objects: www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte
10.Web2.0 Evaluation Tool www.techdis.ac.uk/getweb2access
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Being accessible is about being canny – adopting these techniques into your daily
routine• Making better use of Word and PowerPoint
• Easier to navigate• Easier to read• Easier to transform• More engaging and user-friendly
• I can make my presentations • Easier to revise from – by using the Notes field• Suitable for mobiles • More interactive and collaborative
• Even PDFs can be accessiblewww.techdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials
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Everyone could be using these:
• Audacity: Audio recorder (NB remember to install ‘Lame’); Portable version available.
• Screentoaster.com: Screen capture; web-based tool; similar to Camstudio (which requires install)
• Dspeech: Automated audio of text; Portable version available; voices not great but finds others from PC
• Robobraille.com: Send a Word document off to [email protected], get an MP3 back!
• Readthewords.com: Automated audio of text; much better voices (some ! E.g. Charles, Nina)
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Access Apps
• See www.techdis.ac.uk/getaccessapps• You can choose full package for a 2 GB memory
stick or smaller ‘Core’ version• Provides via a single menu of over 50 tools that
run from memory stick – so will run on any PC• Not Mac compatible but see
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps and http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/
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Xerte: create Accessible Learning Objects – simply!
• Xerte: Generator of Accessible Learning Objects (a bit like Articulate, CourseGenie etc); Can be installed but better used via web – use our sandbox to play, and then install on your own server; find out more at www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte (including ‘Creating your first object’ guide) and have a play in our sandpit www.techdisplayxerte.info
• Free tutorials 1pm last Friday of every month: www.techdis.ac.uk/getxertefriday
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QR Codes
• Generate a QR code freely on the web eg. http://qrcode.kaywa.com - print and stick anywhere
• Download and install free QR reading software to your phone • www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-software/
• Two example uses: National Star College and Heriot-Watt University
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Travel text is read out by a text to speech application running on the phone
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HEAT2 mLearning Case Study – Heriot-Watt University
• Alasdair Thin – used mobile phone to stream context specific audio information to students with visual impairment• Used camera phone QR codes to push text files to
students’ mobiles, used TextAloud to convert this to audio. Moved on to using QR codes to access web url to download audio.
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It’s all about using the right tool for each context…
Simon Ball [email protected] www.techdis.ac.uk 01904 717580
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Inspiration: Inclusive techniques others have implemented
• HEAT scheme• HE Staff (inc. HE in FE) awarded
technologies up to £2K (i.e. achievable projects) to uncover or develop an aspect of inclusive teaching.
• www.techdis.ac.uk/getheatscheme • Some examples you might want to
consider…
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HEAT example – Reflective Diaries
Hellawell and Priestley
(University of Bradford)
Dyslexic student used
handheld video recorder to
create mini documentaries
providing an opportunity for reflective learning.
These were edited and converted to a format
suitable for playing on PCs, and audio podcasts
produced, to be shared with future students.
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HEAT Example – Talking Tactile Tablet
• Chevins (Keele Univ.) helped a blind and a VI student to understand Transmission Electron Microscopy. Using a cartoon of a cutaway of the microscope he created a tactile diagram using swell paper. He then used the T3 to add audio commentaries to each part of the diagram, so when touched, a contextual audio file was enabled.
• Cassella (Derby Univ.)found these were used bymany students with visualor auditory learning style.
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HEAT2: Enabling Remote Activity (ERA): how remote fieldworking can be used to enable students with and without mobility problems to work together to
carry out fieldwork.
• Open University• Winner of Handheld
Learning Award• Mobility-impaired student
directs field work via mobile network to fellow students
• Connectivity and security issues when setting up networks between two different locations remote from main institution.
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HEAT2: Investigation of the potential for using PDAs to hold portfolio materials for Midwifery
students on placements
• Bangor University• PDAs for midwifery
students to carry their e-portfolios on
• Issues with signing off process
• PDA increased tech confidence and aided flexible learning
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HEAT3: What’s it worth? Equivalent assessment opportunities – Roehampton
University
• Began by offering alternate means of assessment to disabled students eg video or audio recordings in place of written work
• Raised issues of equivalence – how much footage equates to a 3000-word essay?
• Produced an ‘equivalence’ table of over 40 assessment types – further work being done to refine and expand the table.
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HEAT3: Using mobile devices and microblogging to analyse student use of learning spaces – University of Leicester
Two groups of students (UG and PG) used the iPod touches for a period of 4 weeks each.
Asked to microblog about where they were and what they were doing, to increase understanding of student use of learning spaces.
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Undergraduate tweets
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Postgraduate tweets
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Other HEAT projects include:
• Evaluating e-book readers for marking student assignments
• Use of Mediascapes to enhance mobile-based field learning (urban education)
• Evaluating the use of mobile devices to support disabled students
• Over 80 projects in total• www.techdis.ac.uk/getheatscheme