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Unlocking Potential
Inclusive teaching and learning
Communicating Issues and Inspiring New Practice
Unlocking Potential
Things are seldom as they seem
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Unlocking Potential
Things are seldom as they seem.
Dyslexic, deaf, blind, paraplegic, learning difficulties, unknown?
Dyslexic, deaf, blind, paraplegic, learning difficulties, unknown?
Unlocking Potential
A new way of seeing things
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller.
TechDis resources for a new way of seeing things:
WatchWords
SimDis
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A new way of doing things
• Do less work but create more accessible resources.• Make a podcast for a learner (without speaking).• Make a podcast with a learner (without installing software).• Make a learner make a podcast (without using a computer).• Make a video (without a video camera) .• Make mobile learning (without buying software).• Make a highly accessible learning object (without technical
know how).• Make a VLE (without a technician).• Give poor readers reading help (without being there).• Give poor spellers prompts (without being there).• Define vocabulary (without being there).
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Do less work but create more accessible resources
• Don’t format documents – structure them using heading styles instead. It saves you time and makes a much more accessible resource.
Hair background – formatted or structured
www.techdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials
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Make a podcast for a learner (without speaking).
• DSpeech – free and portable text to speech and text to MP3. Uses built in Windows XP voices. Hair demo.
• Or RoboBraille high quality free email service – send email with text attached to [email protected]
www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware
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Make a podcast with a learner (without installing software).
Portable Audacity.
The Welsh podcast primer – meeting, greeting and departing.
Good morning, good afternoon, hello, goodbye, good night, take care, see you later etc.
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Make a learner make a podcast (without using a computer).
Free phone message to MP3 service with Gabcast (www.gabcast.com).
Phone 0207 100 2530 • channel number: 15867# the ‘pound key’ = hash• channel password: 123#
Leave a message
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Make a video (without a video camera)
• Camstudio (free software)• Understanding a cheque
• Or use digital images with Windows moviemaker.
• Tying a tie.
• Or try Wink (runs from a memory stick)
www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware
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Make mobile learning (without buying software).
• Make audio, Camstudio or Wink resource and Bluetooth it to a PDA or phone.
• And if Bluetooth is a pain use IR beaming• And if beaming doesn’t work try a card reader• Or synchronising the device• Or fold a sheet of A4 cleverly (PocketMod)…
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Make a highly accessible learning object (without technical know how).
Xerte learning object.Launch it.
Create folder
Fill in text > Browse to media
Preview > add new page and repeat
Save
Upload folder to VLE
www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte
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Make a VLE (without a technician).
www.esnips.com
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Give poor readers reading help (without being there).
• NaturalReader – • discrete media player style interface
• DSpeech• Portable, runs from usb memory stick
• WordTalk• Custom made to bring speech to Word – adds a new
menu bar.
www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware
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Give poor spellers prompts (without being there).
LetMeType is free word prediction software that can have a customised vocabulary imported.
www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware
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Define vocabulary (without being there).
WordWeb5 is GreenWare that will define, pronounce, provide synonyms and point out homophones.
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Strategic approaches
• Teaching styles and preferences are valid but learner entitlements are legally protected.
• Staff training on disability issues should focus on core business not fuzzy feelings.
• Accessibility does not belong to support specialists any more than inclusion belongs to disabled people.
• E-learning is not the solution but it provides a wide suite of solutions.
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TechDis resources
• For managersSenior Manager Briefings www.techdis.ac.uk/getbriefings
• For practitionersAccessibility essentialswww.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftwarehttp://www.techdis.ac.uk/getcreating http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getm-learning
• For trainersStaff packs, WatchWords, SimDis
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Conclusion
• E-learning supports the inclusion and DDA agendas by creating alternative (i) resource types and (ii) learning experiences.
• E-learning allows the learners to contribute to constructing learning… so what will you do next?