Hidden in plain sight - exploiting everyday technologies to give your organisation an inclusion advantage
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Speaker: Margaret McKay, subject specialist (accessibility and inclusion), Jisc. Digital inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. Google, Office 365 and other platforms offer potential to enhance learning opportunities and increase productivity. This session will explore less obvious accessibility gains that are often hidden in plain sight within the ubiquitous tools and platforms used in further and higher education.
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Hidden in plain sight - exploiting everyday technologies to give your organisation an inclusion advantage
- 1. Northern Ireland Tuesday 19 June
- 2. Hidden Gems Margaret McKay (Subject specialist accessibility/inclusion), Jisc
- 3. Digital inclusion is everyone’s responsibility
- 5. Online platforms - solutions hidden in plain sight
- 6. Not appreciating the use of something that you have
- 8. Reading efficiency - Customisation/text to speech ClaroRead Chrome Read Write for Google Chrome
- 9. Reading efficiency Simplifying reading Mercury Reader and Just Read
- 10. Easy or speed reading (spreed) Reading efficiency
- 11. Reading efficiency High contrast Colour overlay
- 15. Reading efficiency Voice Note II Voice typing
- 16. o365 An inclusive Office 365
- 17. Two perspectives Difference staff can make for learners Difference students can make for themselves
- 18. Speak selected text Reading efficiency
- 20. Scan inaccessible text and listen: Office Lens and Immersive reader Reading efficiency
- 21. Reading efficiency Hands free typing add on Built in speech recognition
- 23. Mobile (seeing AI app) Researching/Learning
- 24. Accessibility checker What can staff do?
- 25. Create engaging and media rich content - Sway What can staff do?
- 26. Create engaging and media rich content - Mix What can staff do?
- 27. What can staff do? Powerpoint presentation translator add on
- 29. Visit http://tiny.cc/jiscAI » How would a learner interact with your website, prospectus, library and learning platform and assistive technologies? Jisc A&I Snapshot » Consultancy mentoring and inclusive digital strategy support » Training and practical support – eg inclusive digital capability » Interactive online courses for organisations » Accessible organisations blogs and Jisc accessibility guides Jisc creating an accessible organisation
- 30. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND. Margaret McKay Subject specialist accessibility/inclusion margaret.mckay@jisc.ac.uk Thankyou
Editor's Notes
- You can’t please all of the people all of the time….but you can Pleasing MOST of the people MOST of the time. Pleasing all the people all the time isn’t feasible, There will always be a need for specialist support and discrete assistive technologies, but there are real benefits in exploiting what you’ve already got to meet the needs of more of the people more of the time i.e. planning to be as inclusive as possible by and giving ALL students more choice and independence. There are many drivers that point us in this direction…… Shifts in funding - a push on how institutions develop their investment in technology to support an inclusive approach Institutions are expected to embed and mainstream equality into all policies - and across all functions - and to demonstrate that they are doing so. To provide a clear evidence base for inclusion and widening participation Accountability for attracting, retaining and improving outcomes for the many more learners facing challenges To ensure that all staff (not just disability support - and -not only academic staff) know their role in supporting learners to complete successfully, Technology can help us remove barriers to learning, deliver alternative formats, encourage engagement
- Eilidh has dyslexia. Describe her skills, attributes and styles/approaches to learning. Lateral thinker, problem solver and thinking outside the box https://youtu.be/yU3Ec04nzRY
- What about Eilidh? What kind of technology solutions and reasonable adjustments might be recommended by her university? What kind of digitally inclusive practice could help her? Many students like Eilidh who are known to institutional services …waiting to get DSA funding – often for months before the funding comes through, or only using discrete ‘disability support’ technology when often there are solutions sitting there hidden in plain sight and sitting under our noses. Online platforms can help enable equality of access Taking away barriers ladders – social model (AT) using everyday tools to support learning and productivity. Tools that are ubiquitous and can be found in different environments. Improving accessibility for content creators usability –Templates, checkers requests Practical & pedagogical benefits - enabling everyone to: Connect, work and share with communication platforms – messaging, chat, SMS and VOIP), Google/One Drive (a place to store and access documents collectively) and online apps- all in one place What does this mean for teachers: Organise and streamline their work , saving them time and effort. But the real benefit is turning See this video Yousef Fouda of the Warwick College Group Assessment – he talks about turning teaching and assessment from batch processing in to valuable real time interventions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=A91TGaN8l58 Better communication and efficient feedback avoiding marking and re-marking work. Revolutionise feedback and creating self-grading quizzes in google forms What does this mean for the student? Connect – both platforms have opportunities for self/peer formative assessment (GoogleForms). Work management and organisation Google /One Drive. MS/Google Docs and G/mail- Translation Collaboration, creativity and critical thinking and deep learning. Share - Continual and live contact with their teacher and other students enables students to check their progress , ask questions, explore ideas before submitting assignments. One environment to navigate as in a field trip where all the docs are easy to locate in a google folder or making platforms open to parental involvement. Google, Office 365 and other platforms offer potential to enhance learning opportunities and increase productivity. This session will explore less obvious accessibility gains that are often hidden in plain sight within the ubiquitous tools and platforms used in FE/HE.
- Not appreciating the use of something that you have until you need it further down the line.
- GSuite is a brand of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed by Google,
- TTS and screen tint - Read and Write, claro Read
- Simplifying reading Mercury
- SPREED
- One note referencing tool, Google keep
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/office?activetab=pivot_1%3aprimaryr2
- Not element 1 - difference staff can make Element 2 - what difference students can make for themselves if they know about it students being aware of Independent learning - students being more productive Fostering independence and success with students
- Windows 10 Read aloud now available in is now available in 14 new languages https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2017/05/31/immersive-reader-comes-to-outlook-on-the-web-and-the-onenote-for-windows-10-app-and-expands-its-global-reach/
- Office Lens with Immersive Reader - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z4DfMPSt4
- The obvious spelling and grammar checking Hands free typing add on OS: Windows 8.1 or later, Office 2013 or later, https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/what-s-new-in-outlook-2016-for-windows-51c81e7a-de25-4a34-a7fe-bd79f8e48647?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/dictate-with-your-voice-in-office-d4fd296e-8f15-4168-afec-1f95b13a6408?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB
- Make your Word documents accessible -https://support.office.com/en-us/article/make-your-powerpoint-presentations-accessible-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25 Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/make-your-powerpoint-presentations-accessible-6f7772b2-2f33-4bd2-8ca7-dae3b2b3ef25 Accessibility checker - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-accessibility-checker-on-your-windows-desktop-to-find-accessibility-issues-a16f6de0-2f39-4a2b-8bd8-5ad801426c7f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
- Sway and office mix
- Presentation Translator - A Microsoft Garage Experimental Project Windows version 8 onwards
- Jisc A&I Snapshot Review What do learners think of your….website, prospectus, library and learning platform Assistive technologies Jisc Creating an Accessible Organisation Consultancy and Inclusive Digital Strategy Training and practical support Interactive Online Courses Accessible Organisations Blogs and Jisc Accessibility Guides
- Contact: Alistair.mcnaught@jisc.ac.uk – subject specialist for accessibility and inclusion