With
apologies if you receive this through several channels
Hi all
I would
like to invite you to participate in a workshop that forms part of the WIDE
project being run by Teesside University as part of JISC’s Distributed
Learning Environments programme.
The WIDE
project will design widgets to support disabled students – what we need
from you is the ideas! You don’t have to have any technical expertise
whatsoever, what we need you to do is to think about the barriers your students
currently face that potentially technology might be able to solve, and come to
the workshop where you will be helped to turn that into a design for a widget.
All
three workshops are open to anyone with good ideas about how we might better
support disabled students using technology. The success of the project depends
on your ideas! If you are interested please read the overview below and sign up
for one of the workshops. If you have any questions please contact Voula at the
WIDE project team ([log in to unmask])
rather than me!
Best
wishes
Simon
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Widgets
for Inclusive Distributed Environments (WIDE) Workshop
Date &
Location
15th
October 2010 JISC
TechDis, York
22nd October 2010 Portland
College, Mansfield
5th November 2010 Teesside
University
Overview
The
Accessibility Research Centre (ARC) at Teesside University is holding a series
of one day workshops on the "design of widgets for inclusive distributed environments".
The events are part of a JISC-funded Distributed Learning Environments (DLE)
project to develop resources to extend the functionality and flexibility of
VLEs.
These events are of interest to those directly involved with the teaching or
support of disabled learners and students in FE and HE, including lecturers,
tutors, learning technologists, disability coordinators etc. The workshops are
an opportunity for participants to specify and produce learning designs that
will be developed for you into bespoke small applications known as widgets.
About
The
workshop will give participants an overview of existing accessibility widgets
and prepare you for thinking about the potential of widgets for accessible
e-learning. Working in small groups, you will brainstorm, discuss, design, and
refine ideas for your own learning designs into a requirements specification
for the widgets. At the end of the workshop, participants will be provided with
a memory stick containing JISC RSC EduApps, presentation material from the
workshop, a link to the Wookie server where the widgets will be hosted and some
sample widgets. Post-workshop, each specification will be transformed into a
widget by the ARC developers, and the participants will then evaluate the
finished product online. You do not need to have any experience of widget
development.
Outcomes
A
suite of bespoke, accessible learning applications (widgets) based on delegates
own designs that can be used with their students and learners, shared and
adapted.
Agenda
10:00 |
Arrival,
registration, tea & coffee |
10:30 |
Introductions and outline
of the day's activities |
10:45 |
Overview
of open source and freeware accessibility software (Dr Simon Ball |
11:30 |
Introduction
to creation and use of mobile prompts (widgets for visual prompts for young
adults with learning difficulties) (Matthew Harrison, Portland College) |
12:15 |
Participants
outline their proposed learning activity and placed into groups. |
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:00 |
Interactive
hands-on session. |
15:00 |
Presentation and discussion
of designs (Results captured/archived digitally) |
15:40 |
Plenary
feedback: on key issues, development of widgets and evaluation plans |
16:00 |
Close |
Cost &
Registration
Free
with lunch included (unfortunately we cannot reimburse participants' travel expenses).
You can register at http://arc.tees.ac.uk/workshop/register.php
Contact
For
more information contact Voula Gkatzidou: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Simon Ball
Senior Advisor
JISC TechDis Service, c/o The Higher Education Academy Building,
Innovation Way, York, YO10 5BR www.techdis.ac.uk
[log in to unmask] Skype:
simontechdis +44(0)1904717580
/ +44(0)7813917888
Next JISC TechDis HE Online Updates: October 18th at 13.00
repeated October 19th at 14.30 – www.instantpresenter.com/techdisonline78
- all welcome!
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