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Many learners struggle to engage with formal education. This can be for a range of reasons and there's no simple answer to any of them. This site is about reducing the barriers to engagement wherever possible. It will often focus on technology but that's only because technology has a lot to offer in many contexts. Other 'human based' approaches can be just as effective so they'll also get space when they cross the horizon.
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A great way to get into using ebooks is to start with some of the free varieties. Ebook readers offer all kinds of accessibility benefits - as well as barriers - and trialling with free books is a good way to experiment with what works for you or your learners.
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Students writing tests for other students has always been a great way of embedding learning. This website harnesses the power of social media to take the concept to new places. Delete the scoop?
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Jisc TechDis and others have been saying this for years - accessibility standards are potentially useful but nowhere near as useful as proper user testing with disabled end-users. Here's the evidence. Delete the scoop?
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Birdhouse is a web & mobile based care management tool for families raising children with Autism.
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Flip Video is dead, in the face of competition from big-name rivals, video-shooting cameras, and camera phones. Here's some alternatives.
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The Flip camera opened up some great opportunities for enlivening teaching and learning and widening inclusion but they are not being made any more so what are the alternatives? This page reviews some options. Delete the scoop?
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If you have a technical leaning and want to support your learners in a specific way this could be an interesting starting point. Delete the scoop?
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Lots of useful tips on making reading easier with a focus on text to speech as well as other browser plugins and apps Delete the scoop?
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I love the way the VI simulator allows you to use the slider bar to simulate different severities. Really helps make the point that every disabled person is unique and we need flexible, agile ways of teaching and supporting Delete the scoop?
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Really useful and timely guidance on Bring Your Own Device approaches to mobile learning. This is a vexed area with lots of potential to go right as well as to go wrong so this guidance by Jisc Legal is very valuable. Delete the scoop?
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The T2C videos are a collection of 3 short films featuring people who live and work/study in Dorset sharing their stories of their personal recovery from men...
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Mental health is a growing area in education - this is one of three films exploring the issue in an honest but sensitive way. Delete the scoop?
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Great to see the student's work! This is a nice example that veers creatively into flipped classroom territory. 
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February 12, 2:14 PM
Lots of insightful and inspirational ideas on this blog. I love the image that was the inspiration for this post and I plan to use it to launch an iPad Professional learning opportunity I am facilitating next week. 
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February 13, 6:15 AM
I love the way the teacher uses the students' own examples of the way they have used the apps on their blog. Very powerful! Delete the scoop?
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Good storytelling is one of the ultimate ways of being inclusive and a simple story can set the scene for making any learning come alive - irrespective of the age group. This collection of stories is useful imagination-fodder. 
Ana Cristina Pratas's curator insight,
April 24, 9:02 AM
Source: Education Services Australia Ltd and ABC | Learning area: English | Secondary: Years 8, 9, 10 
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April 26, 3:40 AM
Brilliant, not just the list of the types of stories, but in the telling of them. Delete the scoop?
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With the launch of XerteToolkits 2.0 it's now possible to bring benefits of rich interactive Xerte content to mobile devices. My favourite page types are the connectors (see sample http://tinyurl.com/jtdeg2) but the new flexible web page template is just brilliant - see link main Mitchellmedia link. Resize the browser, try it on your phone. See how it adapts. Any teacher with modest IT skills (eg PowerPoint, basic digital photos etc) can learn how to do this in half an hour. See next TechDis XerteFriday session on Flipping the Classroom - http://tinyurl.com/jtdeg3 and Xerte community site www.xerte.org.uk 
terrymc's curator insight,
May 1, 11:52 AM
The approach of Xerte offers the potential to provide students with opportunities to be more creative working with their tutors - it is easy to understand and teach. Students can be more digitally experienced practitioners by exploring the features available to them.
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Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials
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The ultimate resource for publishers and content developers who need to create accessible materials. Very detailed with good tie into EPUB 3. The advice is too technical for teachers to use directly but if you are supporting learners with inaccessible files from pubishers, do point publishers to this site! Delete the scoop?
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This free course can be downloaded and adapted for your own learners. An excellent resource for people wanting to explore the concept of personally accountable learning and encourage learners in broadening their digital literacy. 
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Adapt and reuse and teach others the meaning of being digitally responsible. Thank you #Joy Rosario for this #scoop it. Delete the scoop?
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Easy to author with - haven't yet tried in the field but looks promising. Create your own capture forms for learners that include picture taking and audio recording! Delete the scoop?
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Not sure whether this is the most exciting tool at teacher's disposal or one of the most depressing when you see the human impacts. Delete the scoop?
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iPads and tablets in the classroom - up to date guidance from RNIB
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iPads are currently the most versatile and accessible tool for teaching and learning. However while the operating system has lots of inbuilt accessibility the accessibility of apps in the appstore is as varied as the app developers themselves. This guidance from RNIB pulls together some good advice - much provided by blind users themselves.
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May 14, 4:33 PM
Useful guides on introducing iPads into the classroom from an accessibility point of view.
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This very comprehensive set of lists goes beyond teaching and learning applications to independent living applications and would be ideal for disabled students making the transition to living away from home.
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Get ViA - By Braille Institute on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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A VI-friendly app that is a directory to a wide range of VI friendly apps - useful to explore whether you are involved in teaching and learning with chilrden adults or anyone between.
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The latest upgrade to the iPhone and iPad version of Amazon's Kindle reading app brings a bunch of new features aimed at blind and visually impaired
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The book drought has ended. Kindle app for iOS improves its accessibility and - literally - overnight 1.8 million books on Amazon become available to blind and partially sighted users. Now we just need Amazon to pay fair taxes and I'll start using them again..
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from the North Carolina Assistive Technology Program
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Some very interesting links to projects, hardware or apps. Some are quite niche but when you are dealing with the specific needs of individuals niche may offer the best match.
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Are you and your students really getting the most out of the iPad? FETC speaker Luis Perez lists 12 little-known tips, tricks, and settings to supercharge your iPad use.
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Some really useful tips here, especially for educational and special needs contexts. The guided access in particular could help with all sorts of classroom management issues!
Carmenne K. Thapliyal's curator insight,
May 18, 5:48 AM
Training teachers before the widespread use of a certain tool in the classroom environment is a must. If you don't know how to use a tool, you cannot understand its affordances and consequently will not know the possibilites of exploiting it appropriately.
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Upon their entry into the practice of medicine, doctors take an oath dating back to Hippocrates that has guided their service through the centuries. As I was completing my Masters work and reading...
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Thought provoking! What would yours include?
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Typesetting math in HTML was for a long time one of those 'I can't believe that hasn't been solved by now!' issues. It seemed a bit wrong - wasn't the...
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One of the dark corners of accessibility - making STEM subjects available to VI learners - has solutions but they are too often dependent on volunteer coders.
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Get them to read online! Some of the sites have app :)
And also do not forget that amazon also have some books that are free to download too
A nice start if you are after some free stuff for your reader.