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HI Ann, Have you had a copy of the paper referred to below ? Thanks Alison Alison Stewart Learning and Development Manager (Academic Practice) Tel : +44 (0)115 8484899 [log in to unmask] Centre for Professional Learning and Development Nottingham Trent University Dryden Centre Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU To find out more about us go to : https://www.ntu.ac.uk/intranet/about_my_job/working_ntu/learningdevelopm ent/index.html ________________________________ From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Ball Sent: 21 May 2009 10:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Inclusive use of Technology briefing Dear Colleagues Your attention and action please! This week we have mailed out to all HEIs (the FE dissemination will follow shortly) our new Senior Manager Briefing resulting from 18 months' research under the Technology Change for Inclusion project: "12 Steps towards Embedding Inclusive Practice with Technology as a Whole Institution Culture". (Thanks again to all of you who contributed to the research). A hard copy of this Briefing has been sent to the PVC (Academic) or equivalent, along with four further hard copies to be given to the Heads of Staff Development, Learning Technology, IT/Networks and Disability/Student Support (or equivalents). The reasoning behind this madness is that one of the key findings from the research, and therefore one of the 12 Steps in the Briefing, is that the most successfully inclusive use of technology occurs where the PVC leads key collaborations between these four roles. I am alerting members of the SEDA list because I am certain that in many institutions these Briefings will not successfully move from the PVC's desk to the desks of the Heads of Staff Development and other key colleagues listed above without prompting - please do pass this email onto your Head of Staff Development if this is not you! Please could I prevail upon you to contact your PVC within the next week or so, to ask for your copy of the Briefing and thereby encourage the key collaborations from your end? Of course I will happily email you a copy of the Briefing upon request, but the point of the exercise is to draw this issue to the attention of the PVC, so if you could try that route first and come back to me if you fail to acquire your copy, that would be ideal. For those of you in Scotland the official launch of the Briefing takes place Wednesday 27th May at e-Inclusion Scotland at Glasgow Caledonian University. Many thanks in advance for pursuing this for me - and if you successfully obtain your copy of the Briefing for working on the 12 Steps within! Of course I am always willing to advise further on any activities you undertake in pursuit of the aims of the Briefing, and would be grateful for any feedback. Best regards Simon Dr Simon Ball Senior Advisor JISC TechDis Service Supporting the education sector in achieving greater accessibility and inclusion by stimulating innovation and providing expert advice and guidance on disability and technology. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.techdis.ac.uk <http://www.techdis.ac.uk> Skype: simontechdis 01904717580 / 07813917888 Next JISC TechDis HE Online Updates: June 18th at 14.00 repeated June 23rd at 11.30 - www.instantpresenter.com/techdisonline78 <http://www.instantpresenter.com/techdisonline78> - all welcome! ____________________ This email is confidential and may be privileged. 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