This was the first week of our Media Elements faculty learning community (FLC). The Media Production staff and I are co-facilitating the weekly sessions. I got the idea a few weeks ago after reading Clive Shepherd’s post on “Media Chemistry”. Our community will be exploring the use of digital media for teaching and learning. Much [...]
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I finally got Google Voice. I had put in a request several months ago, but hadn’t heard back. While attending a recent conference someone was telling me how much they liked it (though it came across as bragging at the time). I told them I was jealous and still impatiently waiting. They offered to send [...]
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A recent article entitled “Help Students Overcome Online Accessibility Problems”, by Stacy Kelly, highlights several challenges students with vision loss may experience when taking online courses. In an informal survey of 100 users, respondants report that screen readers may not read PDF files as text, but instead as one large image. As a solution, they [...]
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