Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Registration is now open for the joint meeting of the CETIS Accessibility
and Portfolio SIGs on Friday 10th March 2006 at TechDis, York Science Park.
The agenda is available at
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/portfolio/events/20060310.
Please register online from the link on either the agenda page or events
page.
You will be able to confirm your registration immediately by looking at the
list of registrants (unless you have opted to be excluded from that list).
Further details about the venue and travel will be emailed to registrants
before the event.
The meeting will centre around on-going work connecting e-portfolios with
accessibility, in the contexts both of e-portfolio usability and enhancing
access to higher education.
The agenda includes:
10:00 10:30 Registration and Coffee.
10:30 10:45 Welcome and Introduction Helen Richardson and Sharon Perry,
CETIS.
10:45 - 11:30 Social Inclusion and ePortfolios Anna Home, University of
Bristol.
Anna will discuss 'widening participation' and 'tackling social exclusion'.
She will cover accessibility aspects of some e-portfolio projects, which
seek to enhance access to HE for a range of different learners.
11:30 - 12:15 Demonstration of an ACCLIP Implementation Fiona Henry,
Loughborough College.
Loughborough College (Personal Profile Project) is the only institution in
the UK to implement part of the IMS ACCLIP (Accessibility for Learner
Information Package) Specification. Fiona will give a demonstration of how
the specification has been implemented for their electronic progress files.
Further information is available from
http://www.loucoll.ac.uk/projects/ppp1.asp.
12:15 12:30 Issues in Portfolios and Accessibility
An opportunity to raise issues for discussion in the afternoon.
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 E-portfolios and Accessibility: Alternative Opportunities and
Constraints Alistair McNaught and Sue Harrison, TechDis.
Alternative approaches to e-portfolios and the accessibility implications
of those different approaches.
14:15 - 15:00 The PETAL (Personal E-portfolios for Teaching And Learning)
Project Ellen Lessner, Abingdon and Witney College
Ellen will give an overview of the PETAL Project, highlighting the range of
case studies included. She will focus on the balance between accessibility
and usability in relation to those with a disability and/or those who have
low IT skills. Further information is available from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=deletpetal.
15:00 - 15:30 Accessibility and ePortfolio Architectures: Issues and
Approaches Andy Heath, Sheffield Hallam University and Martyn Cooper, Open
University.
Andy and Martyn will be presenting their paper on Accessibility and
ePortfolio architectures.
15:30 16:00 Discussion around the day's issues.
16:00 Close.
We hope to see as many of you there as possible!
A related meeting, jointly run by the CETIS Portfolio and Lifelong Learning
SIGs, is scheduled for Thursday 6th April 2006, at the University of
Liverpool. However, the date of that meeting is under review, as we are
now aware that this date clashes with the ALT meeting in Leiden and that
some people would like to attend both meetings.
We will re-announce the date as soon as it is confirmed.
For further information on that meeting, please visit the Portfolio SIG
pages at http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/portfolio or contact Helen
Richardson, joint Portfolio SIG Coordinator ([log in to unmask])
or Clive Church, Lifelong Learning SIG Coordinator
([log in to unmask]).
Best wishes
Sharon Perry, Accessibility Group Coordinator
Helen Richardson, CETIS Portfolio SIG joint Coordinator
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