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Via Drs Fernette and Brock Eide at DyslexicAdvantage.com, Angela C. Dowd
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Why it is important to bear these issues in mind when technologies are used to deliver learning and teaching. These student can learn just like anyone else, they just need to have their difficulties understood. Delete the scoop?
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Developer guidelines for Web checklist
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A list of considerations for web developers working with IBM to meet accessibility standards. Sensible, Meaningful, Achievable, Realistic and Timely i.e. SMART approach to accessibility. Thx to Martyn Cooper for spotting it.
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This section covers all aspects of effective inclusive teaching. This main page includes links to further resources on assessment and support for disabled students
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An exemplar section of a site from the Open University for promoting an inclusive approach to learning and teaching. Delete the scoop?
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I recently visited Brooklands College in deepest Surrey. Lorraine Crossland’s team there is working on one of the JISC TechDis Ambassador programmes and my role for the day was to observe, report and deliver a little training. Delete the scoop?
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After surveying over 300 professionals, technology service provider Appirio determined that most people are far more social personally than they are at work. Via Margaret McKay Delete the scoop?
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After surveying over 300 professionals, technology service provider Appirio determined that most people are far more social personally than they are at work. Via grainnehamilton Delete the scoop?
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From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda's round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life... A common question is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practice – and to practice, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, get introduced to 20 different tools for creating visualisations... Via Lauren Moss, Baiba Svenca, Jenny Pesina, João Greno Brogueira, Louise Robinson-Lay, Luciana Viter, Maria Margarida Correia, juandoming 
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January 28, 12:33 PM
This looks like it might be a good source for integrating infographics into the classroom. 
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Even if you are not actively on the social network, Twitter is a great place to find special needs resources. In the past ... Delete the scoop?
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The validity of open badges is perhaps one of the key concerns raised when I discuss them. I think this article proposes some useful ways for considering this, focusing on how notions of credibility and reliability inform our perception of what is, or is not valid...
'The question of validity is posed fairly commonly.* It goes something like this, “How can we ensure that the badges have a sense of validity?” or “Who will vet them?” or “How will we know that they’re worthwhile badges issued from reputable sources?”
There is a good deal of subtext embedded in these seemingly simple questions. And bound into that subtext is an unwitting/unacknowledged acceptance of the sociocultural status quo. That tacit acceptance should be unpacked and considered. How does any organization achieve validity? How do standards become standards? When the landscape is unknown, how do you learn to trust anything?' Via DML Competition, grainnehamilton Delete the scoop?
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Although some of our 230 members (with learning difficulties) may have been on the internet very few have regular access at home. We only have email addresses for half a dozen people. Of our 8 directors only 2 can be ... Via Shirley Evans Delete the scoop?
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This amazing and hilarious short film, written and directed by James Banks, turns deaf awareness training on its head, teaching us all how to deal with people who were unlucky enough to be born with sound sensitivity or in lay mans terms with hearing.
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Over the past few weeks, I have been posting (here, here, and here) regarding copyright and the need for educators and students to learn more about creative commons licensed material. Via creativecommons Delete the scoop?
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Henshaws College in Harrogate has launched an accessible version of YouTube, which was funded by Jisc through Jisc Advance. It allows people with learning difficulties and disabilities to use this mainstream technology independently.
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This handy resource is ideal for users with low vision and/or dexterity problems. 
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February 19, 4:29 AM
This handy resource is ideal for users with low vision and/or dexterity problems. It's also great for teaching, as its interface is clear throughout the room. 
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February 26, 12:00 PM
I tried it out and like the simple interface and large type...also large icons. It's probably also good for anyone who is a senior and has lost vision.
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December 12, 2012 9:52 AM
A very practical set of free courses on making images and ultimedia accessible to visually impaired people. Free online resource with lots of follow-off links.
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February 26, 12:10 PM
So glad this is being taught now...I have written alt tags that were about appearance and not meaning in the past just because I didn't know any better. WebAim is a good resource too.
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February 26, 12:16 PM
Sometimes the problem is that people feel they have to provide all the info rather than focusing on learning objectives. Standardistas don't always help - the number of times I've seen people insist that audio needs a full transcript for deaf people but since most deaf people are print impaired by virtue of working in a second language why would anyone subject them to redundant extra text instead of summarising the important bits (which - actually - would be welcomed by many other users too!).
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Lee Ridley's new comedy sketch explores what it is like to go speed dating when you don't have a voice and have to use a machine to deliver your chat up lines.
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No principally inclusion but an important part of the landscape.
This presentation will explore how to plan a video curation strategy, how to determine what sources are appropriate for your visitors, and how you invite and curate user-generated and user-submitted content.
From article on Streamingmedia.com: "Curation can solve the problem of abundance online, Steven Rosenbaum explained at the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City. While creative professionals occasionally disagree with curation, it's a way for site owners to present strong material to site visitors and cut through the clutter. "Content curators are distributors of collections," explained Rosenbaum. ... That's the abundance problem. If you went ahead and made all the curators in the world go away, you'd still have this signal-to-noise problem that we laid out at the beginning of the talk. So, absolutely no way is curation the thing that is the enemy of creation."
A well-planned content curation strategy doesn't simply present a list of videos to site visitors. It presents a collection with personality. When curating materials to present, think about the persona that makes that collection unique..."
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Watch full video (1 hour about) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpncJd1v1k4 Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
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I just love how good a speaker Steve Rosenbaum is. Thanks for sharing!
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October 3, 2012 11:39 PM
I just love how good a speaker Steve Rosenbaum is. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Guillaume, thank you for appreciation about my curated article!
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Today I have been writing a section on Disability and Accessibility for a paper for LAK13 entitled “What Can Learning Analytics Contribute to Disabled Students' Learning and to Accessibility in e-Learning Systems? Delete the scoop?
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After surveying over 300 professionals, technology service provider Appirio determined that most people are far more social personally than they are at work. Via Margaret McKay, Lisa Featherstone, alistairm Delete the scoop?
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There are real benefits to young people with learning disabilities and autism using the internet for learning and social interaction and increasingly the internet caters for their needs with accessible design and simplified language. Via Shirley Evans Delete the scoop?
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Fluid was formed as a open source community back in 2007 to make a long-term impact on the usability and accessibility of the web. From the start, our goal has been to: Share new design methods that empower users to be co-creators, not just passive consumers of user interfaces Devise new development tools for building software that can adapt to individuals Foster an open source community that welcomes and includes “the rest of us;” the designers, testers, and non-geeks who otherwise wouldn’t get involved in open sourceFrom our experience building real applications over the years, it became clear that today’s software development idioms don’t support this vision of user interfaces that can be easily adapted, transformed, and reconfigured. The software industry’s design patterns and “received wisdom” more often than not result in expensive, brittle, and hard-to-maintain user interfaces that don’t match the needs, preferences, and creativity of users.
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Not only is education for many the best chance for upward social mobility, it also enriches and empowers people and gives them a sense of achievement and self-fulfilment. In Cambodia ... Via Shirley Evans Delete the scoop?
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Guidance intended for staff in UK FE colleges whose provision includes further education or training for vulnerable learners with varying need... Delete the scoop?
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DART2 (Disseminating Assistive Roles and Technology 2) is a new JISC Advance funded project that follows on from the recently concluded LSIS funded DART project. Thanks to the nature of the JISC funding we are now able to offer the project in England, Wales and Scotland. Via Margaret McKay Delete the scoop?
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This post is part of the MOOC MOOC course of work. It outlines my journey (now lasting over a year) towards adopting elements of a MOOC in the Inclusive Technologies for Reading (#ITR12) course pilot starting this September. Via Mark Smithers Delete the scoop?
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Great to see more people sharing their dyslexia stories, how they found what they really had a passion for, and grew in confidence.