Alistair McNaught
Undiscovered country: Discover Jisc13/04/2023
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/discover_jisc
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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Images
AudioVideo
Interactivity
Blind / VI
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AudioVideo
Interactivity
Dyslexic
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AudioVideo
Interactivity
Deaf
Text
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AudioVideo
Interactivity
Learning difficulties
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Interactivity
All together now…
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AudioVideo
Interactivity
And teaching resources?
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AudioVideo
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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_jisc
www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/resources
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Accessibility resources
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=113
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform38/TopTechTools.html#.UrBQp1tdWAg
Tools to help learners with Dyslexia
InsightInsight eventsLeicester 10 JuneNottingham 11 Junehttp://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastmidlands/insight-2014.aspx
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