Alistair McNaught - The undiscovered country

The undiscovered country

Finding and using the Aladdin’s cave of free Jisc resources and support

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Why bother? ..And what’s it got to do TechDis?

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Blind / VI

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Dyslexic

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Deaf

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Learning difficulties

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All together now…

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And teaching resources?

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Making text speak

• All your PCs, Macs and Laptops can speak web pages, documents, ebooks etc

• With quality English voices• For no cost• And your learners can download them for

their personal use.• www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/voices

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Free voices work with free tools like:

• Google Chrome browser (ChromeSpeak Plugin)

• Clipboard readers like Orato• Text to MP3 tools like Balabolka• Inbuilt text to speech like Word 2010

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Text and more – 1) finding stuff

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• What is it?• How can I use it?• What else do I

need to know?• Do I have access

to it?

2) getting in

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Open Athens, Federated Access Management, Shibboleth and Eduroam?

Can somebody translate?

3) keeping clean

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4) getting advice

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Who? Why useful?

Jisc Digital MediaJisc InfoNetJisc LegalJiscmailJisc NetskillsJisc RSCs Jisc TechDis

Making everyday practice more inclusive

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• Free staff development resources.

• Provide better support without having to spend more money.

• Provide better experiences for everyone.

• Find out about recommended free tools and free text to speech voices to go with them.

Technology enhanced teaching

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Step by step – from background to resources to tools to training.

It won’t rub itself….

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It won’t rub itself….

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46 resource sites

17 advice / guidance links

33 online and downloadable

tools

Dozens of downloadable

accessibility guides

Going further

www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/discover_jiscwww.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/resources helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk

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