eSkills module 4

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  Designing an Inclusive Curriculum

   

  • Guidance Notes File
  • This module will highlight the strategies we can all use to ensure that our materials are created in a more accessible manner. Based on the TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guides, this session will provide hints and tips to allow us to create resources that will be accessible for readers with a wide range of disabilities and learning styles.

  • 1. Introductory Presentation
    

    This introductory presentation offers an overall introduction to this module and highlights the legislative, pedagogic and ethical imperative to ensuring that learning resources are created inclusively.

  • Introductory Presentation File
  • 2. Creating Accessible MS Word Documents
    

    This presentation will outline the techniques people should incorporate when creating MS Word documents. Incorporating the measures highlighted in this module will ensure that documents are produced more inclusively and will be accessed easily by assistive technology users. It will also provide a baseline for students to adapt and personalise the way they read the material created.
    
  • Accessible MS Word File
  • 3. Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations

    This presentation will provide advice and guidance on ensuring that PowerPoint presentations are created inclusively. It will highlight potential problems with PowerPoint if they are not created in a particular manner. It will also provide some examples of how to go about ensuring that your PowerPoint resources are created in a way that will allow students with different learning support needs or who used assistive technologies to access resources in a way that will remove inherent barriers to access.

  • Creating Accessible PowerPoint File
  • PowerPoint Activities
  • Using Text Boxes to Increase Interactivity within a Presentation File
  • 4. Making the Most of PDFs

    This presentation will offer an insight into different types of PDF documents. It will provide information into the challenges of PDFs, in particular for assistive technology users and, based on guidance from JISC TechDis will highlight how to make the most of PDFs. The presentation will provide some insights into the characteristics of an accessible PDF and will also offer guidance about Adobe Reader (a free download from Adobe) to help make PDFs easy to read with inbuilt accessibility features.

  • Making the most of PDFs File
  • PDF Activities
  • PDF Activity File
  • PDF Document to work through Activities File
  • Useful References

  • Accessible PDFs: What you Need to Know URL
  • JISC TechDis: Making the Most of PDFs URL
  • Additional Resources

  • IceBreaker Activities (optional)
    

    These resources can be used as an ice breaker after the initial introductory presentation. The first resource is based on the JISC TechDis SIM DIS resources and contains a collection of computer based artifacts that simulate aspects of disability. It is intended that the simulations will be used for training and awareness raising activities with staff where an understanding of disability is required.

    No simulation can give the true feelings of what it is like to have a disability. It is hoped the simulations will provide 'food' for thought and promote enlightened discussion, which will lead to a better understanding. They have been designed from anecdotal comments made by people with a disability and staff involved in teaching and supporting students with disabilities.

  • Sim Dis Resource URL
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  Topic 2