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10 Ways to Make Your Classroom Content Accessible Today! |
Participate and share : Interactive lecture
Cassie Frost
Accessibility is more important than ever because of the increase in digital learning. We'll discuss 10 ways to increase the accessibility of content that you create and provide to your students, including closed captioning, alt text, OCR, formatting, file naming and font types.
| Audience: | Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Intermediate |
| Attendee devices: | Devices required |
| Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | No software is required- any internet based device will allow the participants to participate in most activities. A laptop or Chromebook will provide the best access for this session, but others will work as well. |
| Topic: | Assistive & adaptive technologies |
| Subject area: | Special education, Not applicable |
| ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Designer
Teaching, Learning and Assessments
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Participants will be able to identify common accessibility concerns and how they affect learners in an educational environment.
Participants will be able to identify at least 5 techniques or tools for increasing the accessibility of digital lessons.
Participants will be able to identify constraints of at least 3 digital platforms and identify assistive technology tools that can help mitigate these constraints.
5 Min- Introduction and interactive survey of previous knowledge and teaching scenarios
10 Min- Discussion of what content is considered accessible and what are considerations of accessible content. How does accessible content and UDL work together?
30 Min- Demonstration and exploration of 10 techniques and tools that help create accessible content,. Each technique will be discussed, demonstrated, and examples of how it could be used in a variety of digital settings. Additionally, examples of why it is important who it helps will be discussed. Examples of such techniques will include adding alt text (for screen readers, used in any platform that uses images, necessary for any student with a visual impairment or other need for a screen reader), OCR (optical character recognition for ensuring all digital content is readable by a screen reader), and closed captioning (a variety of methods for achieving this will be discussed).
During this portion, participants will watch, engage in polls and brainstorming sessions, and have an opportunity to experiment with many of the techniques on their own devices.
10 Min- During this time, a discussion of common educational platforms will be held and limitations of each platform will be demonstrated. This is important for participants to understand that there may be different platforms that need to be utilized for different purposes in order for content to be accessible to all learners.
5 Min- Wrap up, including participants sharing ideas and writing down action steps for themselves, questions answered if any are asked, and a short interactive activity that allows participants to use at least one of the tools they have learned about during this session.
http://www.cast.org/our-work/accessibility-inclusive-technology
http://www.wati.org/free-publications/assistive-technology-consideration-to-assessment/
http://udlguidelines.cast.org/action-expression/physical-action/assistive-technologies
The New Assistive Tech- Make Learning Awesome for All- Chris Bugaj
UDL Now!- Novak
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