Accessibility Forum 6 March 2014

6 March 2014 Martin Cooke, ILT Advisor

RSC East Midlands

Accessibility and Inclusion Forum

Events

InSightRSC East Midlands Summer Conference

Online 4/5 June

Face to faceLeicester University 10 June

Albert Hall, Nottingham 11 June

Children and Families Billhttp://www.councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/media/527417/countdown-to-change-fe-final.pdfAOC and Natspec document

What do FE and ISPs need to do in the wake of the Children and Families Bill becoming law in Feb 2014?

• Build links with LAs, and funders of high needs students• Contribute to the local offer • Raise awareness of the reforms amongst colleagues • Consider workforce development • Consider new funding and study programme for supported

internships, traineeships/apprenticeships, in partnership with employers

• Develop transition partnerships with LA/schools

Code of Practice LLDD post-16 http://goo.gl/32163K

• EHC plans and collaboration between services • Big focus on transition and right of students to be heard• Greater choice for parents and young ppl• Positive outcomes: employment, HE, etc• Preparation for adulthood• Extends to 19-25 yr olds• Students and Teachers can request an assessment

respond online

Children and families Bill 2014

Badge for delegates

Chesterfield CollegeRunners-up for the AoC Beacon Award

Microlink and AoC Charitable Trust

Inclusive Learning Award for students with

learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities

http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/case-studies/em/Chesterfield-College-em59

DoE for learners with learning difficulties

Chesterfield College case study

Programme (flexible to take account of input, collaboration and networking)

09.30 Registration & Coffee10.00 Welcome and Introduction

Martin Cooke

10.05 TechDis update (if technology allows)

Lisa Featherstone

10.30 Leicestershire Adult Learning iPad trial for learners with PMLDGavin Seaton and colleagues, Leics Adult Education

11.10 Break11.25 ERA and copyright

Kathleen Roberts, ERA

11.50 Dyslexia appsDee Caunt

12.10 Jisc RSC updateMartin Cooke

12.30 AOB12.45 Lunch

Communications tech to support Transition

http://supportingtransition.co.uk/

Isolation can have detrimental impact on transition process from ISP to independence. Using Skype and other such technologies to link students with others.

Using readily available technology to develop and maintain communication will support the transition process allowing students to integrate back into their own community or to a new community away from their home environment more easily.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform38/TopTechTools.html#.UrBQp1tdWAg

Tools to help learners with Dyslexia

http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/discover_jisc

http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/discover_jisc

Involve Mehttp://goo.gl/DsdKZw

How would you help facilitate Learner Voice and self-advocacy for LLDD ?

Padlet

Involve Mehttp://goo.gl/DsdKZw

The eight key messages for Learner Voice and self-advocacy for LLDD

• Know the person really well• Take lots of time• Don’t make assumptions• Be responsive to the person• Be creative and try out new ideas.• Learn from what the person ‘tells’ you• Act on what you learn• Help the person recall and share things about their life

Disability Confident campaign

July 2013, ‘Disability Confident’, a new 2 yr campaign encouraging businesses to employ more disabled workers, and to take on more apprentices, trainees and interns with disabilities or learning difficulties.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/drive-to-get-more-disabled-people-into-mainstream-jobs

Guidance on employing disabled peoplehttp://goo.gl/YTSa32

Open Badge Adventure at Borders College Mozilla Open Badges ecosystem offers an opportunity to increase student engagement, retention and employability.

Chesterfield CollegeInclusive Learning, Advocacy, Enrichment and Work Experience in Foundation Studies

In Brief: Open BadgesResources from the latest webinar

open badges: case studies

http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=24

Do you want to make links with employability skills?Badges related to real world skills will be worth having in your eportfolio.

non-traditional skillseg Mozilla’s web literacy standards: not formal education but important skills in today’s online world. No academic qualifications but online learning skills or community involvement recognised.

Wicked competences and soft skillsteamworking, empathy, honesty, integrity, participation, collaboration etc

esafetyDigital footprint

open badges

Moodle 2.5 includes Open Badges

Part 1 - http://www.screenr.com/Jf67Part 2 – Setting up the Quiz and Looking at Badges http://www.screenr.com/7v67Part 3 – Making the Badge http://www.screenr.com/hv67Part 4 – Setting up the Backpack http://www.screenr.com/4v67Part 5 – Getting my Badge http://www.screenr.com/Lv67Part 6 – Getting my Badge pt 2 http://www.screenr.com/3v67

Moodle is the first widely-used platform to support badges. Teachers can now design and award their own badges for any users on their sites, using their own criteria. These badges are compatible with the Open Badges standard from Mozilla, and can be used outside Moodle as well.

For more on open badges:http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/jisc-rsc-scotland-open-badges-workshop

open badges in Moodle 2.5

Digital Me esafety badgeshttps://www.makewav.es/story/565569

Open Badges For anyone over 13use on social networks and CV sites using Mozilla Open Badge technology Find out about Open Badges on Makewaves

To take part in the Safe programme and start awarding Safe badges to your students, sign up at www.makewav.es/joinsafe

Open Badge Designerhttps://www.openbadges.me/

http://newsletter.digitalme.co.uk/DigitalMe/BadgeCanvas.pdfBadge Canvas

When logged on as a teacher or admin in Moodle you will be able to use badges in the Admin block

technology: print impairments

http://goo.gl/9B8p7e

technology

eportfolios http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/learnersandstudents/infolio

tabletsTesco Hudl £119

free open source toolsXmind http://www.xmind.net/Balabolka http://balabolka-portable.en.softonic.com/

Fil McIntyre’s presentation on tablet accessibility http://goo.gl/ZmWFTh

tablet accessibility

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_427SD on acc contenthttp://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=1642

xerte 2.1 downloadxerte.org.ukXerte 2.1 is available from the download page. Do you need it? If you are still on 1.9 then most certainly as xerte is now html5 and playable on mobile devices.http://xerte.org.uk

New look and some additional features:

• accessibility button for changing colours• ARIA landmarks (for the blind using screenreaders)• SCORM improvements to track how long spent on each page

xerte accessibility

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sandpit/play.php?template_id=1642

xerte on accessibility

xerte for esafetyhttp://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/case-studies/e/huntingdonshire-regional-college-e55.aspx

Huntingdonshire Regional College: interactive info skills and esafety

JISC RSC esafety offer

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-safety/

BYOD and Flipped Learning

create iMovie Animoto

evaluate Skype Flipboard

analyze diigo

apply Show me Posterous ExplainEverything

understand Idea sketch

remember iBook Socrative

Resources from Insight eventshttp://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=252

More on digital Bloom athttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Sector priorities: some thoughts from EM LPs

Study programmes: changes to funding mean less money per L; less time per qualification. Also reduced funding for tutorial programmes. LPs will increasingly turn to technology to support independent learning

BYOD: ensuring infrastructure can cope; need good connectivity to support independent L(WBL) 24+ loans; money given to employer, rather than provider, so spotlight on value MIS, better use of data – complicated systems need simplifyingGrowth in apprenticeship funding – employability Use of VLEs/cloud technology  LP prioritiesBYOD: moving away from investing in kit - actively encouraging users to bring devices equitable access by improving external connectivity; develop user friendly interface. Technology for independent learning How to balance core offer with bespoke training Expanding e-Learning team to support College strategy to move towards more online delivery

Jisc RSC East Midlands• email: [email protected]

• RSC Moodle http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/

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