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Paul if you are offering to be the editor that is amazing! I have a feeling you may be overwhelmed! I think there may be some merit in picking a disability or specific learning difficulty as suggested, but there will be tremendous overlaps when it comes to the topics. So say you have visual impairment and a series of topics like lectures or writing and even examinations as we had with the Open University Inclusive teaching website – it was hard not to mention tips that would also help other students. We have also found this with the LexDis strategies so you may need a matrix approach and have it available online so people can dip into the tips that are tagged or categorised to cover several difficulties and link to the various activities undertaken. The book can follow when you have a collection with introductions and an overview of the issues and then the tips! If it helps we could add a section on the LexDis Wordpress site that are ‘teachers, academics and tutors tips’ or whatever you want to call them. We have a submit form that could be adapted with tips being sent to you Paul. They would complement the student strategies there already and could be added as posts. http://www.lexdis.org.uk/ Please accept this as just an idea not something that needs to be taken up! You could call it crowdsourcing and maybe we need to use kickstarter to fund those helping out with the task! Best wishes E.A. Mrs E.A. Draffan WAIS, ECS , University of Southampton Mobile +44 (0)7976 289103 http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk UK AAATE rep http://www.aaate.net/ http://www.emptech.info From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught Sent: 01 December 2014 21:29 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Tips and good practice - a gigantic collaboration Sounds a great idea to have a schedule of topics. I'd be really interested in that and happy to contribute where appropriate Alistair Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________________ From: John Conway Sent: 01/12/2014 20:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Tips and good practice - a gigantic collaboration I would recommend for this topic you look through some of the articles in NADP's peer reviewed journal as I know there are some articles ....... http://nadp-uk.org/nadp-resources/Journal/ with regards John Dr John Conway Principal Lecturer in Soil Science Director of Research Programme Manager, MSc International Rural Development Programme Manager, MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Disability Officer Royal Agricultural University Cirencester, Glos. GL7 6JS, UK 01285 652531 ________________________________ From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Paul Smyth [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 01 December 2014 16:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Tips and good practice - a gigantic collaboration Hello everyone Last week I attended a training session and afterwards teachers and staff began to discuss the session and offer their own views/good practice and I felt I learned even more. It got me thinking about how sometimes a fellow JISCmailer will ask if anyone has some good tips for e.g. teaching a student with Asperger’s Syndrome. And, sometimes a document will be shared and at other times there is no response (although of course this might be due to the fact the advice is being shared the two parties or that people are just too busy to respond). When no one responds, I often wonder if some people are a little reluctant to share a document they have slaved over and perfected over the years (I confess I have been guilty of this, for a few minutes anyway)? I feel that this reaction is natural, and there might also be a little part of me that thinks my document isn’t worth sending as there is probably better advice out there. I am sure others must have felt this way – so I thought each month we could pick a topic, let’s say Asperger’s Syndrome – practical tips for teachers – and ask everyone to submit their best tip (with an example of how it worked/helped?). Imagine the expertise out there? The great practice that is happening? We could all benefit from it and in turn so could our teachers and students. I am happy to compile the finished document (that would be unique, not a copied and pasted version from the Internet – not that any of you do that)and send it out to all. 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