record perfect okay um i would like to welcome robin sullivan and sherry van putin uh robin is from the university of buffalo and sherry is from binghamton university and they're going to be talking about the interaction interacting and engaging with students using accessible apps from the edtech wiki so go ahead ladies and get started hey thank you donna very much um so thank you all for taking part of your day to spend with us for watching to those who will be watching the recording afterwards um my colleague cherie and i will talk to you today about using um apps that you would find on the suny m tech wiki to help create accessible um learning content and also learning activities with with your students and learners so um this wiki is built um to complement the suny exploring emerging technologies for lifelong learning and success mooc and um the url is on the screen for the project website it's a pretty easy one to remember so it's uh suny dot edu slash e-m-t-e-c-h and you're gonna wanna bookmark that and refer to it often to find out how you can use the tools that are found in mtech wiki to make your courses and teaching more accessible for learners so i'm robin sullivan if you need to find me at ub you need to put in roberta in the search field but my email address is right on the screen there i'm a teaching and learning strategist with the university at buffalo libraries and cherie i'm going to have you introduce yourself i'm sharie van putten i work at binghamton university as an instructional designer and i'm also the associate director of mtech mooc good okay so um we also um have made a bitly link for the slides um the slides have a few of the resources that we're going to talk about highlighted and there's links on there so if you wanted to write this down also it's a bitly link b i t dot l y slash m tech dash accessibility and i've put both of those links in the chats as a chat as well excellent um we do want to mention that um one part of being accessible in an online environment is to be able to offer captioning in these live environments and um you know if i would have said that a month or two months ago it would have been oh my goodness that's such a difficult thing to accomplish tools and technology evolve all the time and there are a few different tools right now that will help you automatically provide live captioning whenever you're using this kind of synchronous communication we're talking together on zoom so if you would like to pull up a transcript um a caption that will run along with this session you can easily go to this url it's just webcaptioner.com and you can either go there and hit the caption button or go to webcaptioner.com captioner and that will allow you to pull up a new window and it will automatically transcribe the text that sheree and i are going to talk or any of our guests and um you know it's a great way to kind of even rewind what did i say two minutes ago i can kind of look back in that transcript to see that suny cpd has been using the otter.ai system it's very similar um but i kind of like web captioner because it goes on your on its own it doesn't scroll i mean it does scroll so i don't i can have hands off so it's just one of the tools that we're going to highlight and sherry i'm going to have you kind of take it from here for a minute okay basically there's a ton of tools out there for us all to choose from to use in our classes or just in our office work or for social activities there's a lot of different purposes varying quality of the tools so um you know how do you know which one to use and if maybe you're using a free one you just get comfortable with it and then next thing you know it goes away entirely or it becomes a paid model and maybe you don't want your students to pay for a tool so um then you're back to square one so uh if you use the mtech wiki and in the mtech mooc in the background behind it where um robin will get into it more but it sets you up to find the tools you need and then for you to be able to check them out and and assess them to find out which one is is right for you and it's especially important for maybe like those of you who are like maybe a little non-tech or not necessarily the first adapters of technology and um if you want to go to the next screen sorry oh that's okay so m tech mooc is to help you get comfortable with technology and making decisions on what is the right tool for the job you need it also helps you learn about how to protect your digital and digital identity it helps you develop a lifelong learning toolkit so and but while you're doing all of this you're going to be exploring free and low-cost tech tools and we've set it up to be a learning optim a learning activity for all learners where before we focused more on faculty when it was the tools of engagement project now it's for everyone you could share portions of this in a class or all of this in a class with your students or faculty can use it to build skills and people in in more of a support role or in other areas in the university could use it plus it's it's open to everybody in the world i think sure okay and that's when i turn it over to you yeah so um there's actually two different parts of this mtech project the real long name is exploring emerging technologies for lifelong learning and success the project is two different parts um there is the mtech mooc and also the m-tech wiki sheree and i share information about this project all the time so we will focus today mainly on the wiki part of the project but we did want to introduce kind of the mooc um also so the um the mooc is in coursera it is one of the sunni moocs and we've just recently um we're one of the i think we're number nine in the suny moocs as far as enrollments go and the mooc is mainly to provide a supportive community the discussion forums prompt learners to actively engage with the content on the wiki you go through discovery exercises you create an e-portfolio and you pick some of the tools on the wiki to do a hands-on exercise and create a digital artifact whether that's a video audio infographic many many others and then you put that on your e-portfolio and do a short reflection and that's kind of how you run through the mooc um in uh the content of the mooc is organized around lifelong learning that's kind of the underlying idea that we continually try to support and then also the four c's of 21st century skills those are communication collaboration creativity and critical thinking you can get through the whole mooc in about five hours but you can also if you want to explore um the 500 tools that are on the wiki you can just you know really get lost in there um so this is the process you um the reason why you might want to participate at the end you'll have a personal portfolio you can earn digital badges coursera certificates of completion but for the most part we hope that you're there just for the intrinsic rewards of being a lifelong learner and so what we're going to focus on for the most part is mtech wiki and the url that we shared at the very beginning is how you would get to that wiki and the wiki is a socially curated collection of tools tutorials and resources about um emerging technologies for the most part 98 of them are freely available they all have a freemium option so once you um understand what you can use with the free limits sometimes there's ways to buy um upgrades and these wiki tools are used in those discovery exercises that i mentioned it can be used totally as a standalone resource it does not need to be used along with the mooc um so you know keep it as something in your toolbox this is a blown up screen of the wiki search page and one of the uh lessons learned that we gathered from the tope project that the this mtech has been built upon is we wanted to allow people to choose you know use backwards design figure out what is it your objective what are you trying to do so we do that by pointing you to this wiki and there's um right now we have about 500 tools and resources started out with a little bit more than 100 so we've grown quite a bit and it first narrows you down so which of these tools will help you be creative if you come to the wiki through the mooc and you're in the creativity section it'll automatically start limiting them if you are in communication and collaboration module in the mooc you're limited to the communication tools and then you also can start applying these filters so the filters that you see on the left for communication and collaboration you can say well i am interested i want to create a professional identity so if you choose that as a filter you might be limiting and narrowing down to tools that might help you build a portfolio if you want to communicate with others if you choose that as your objective you'll then be given tools such as whatsapp that was mentioned i think in rihanna's um situation facebook was in one of the earlier ones so faculty and students are using these tools um a good portion of them may not be your enterprise supported tools and we are in no way saying that these resources are going to replace anything that your campus has as a resource if anything all of the tools that your campuses have are most likely within here in some capacity um and so once you choose your objective you can then limit even further by saying what is the category what what am i trying to do and we're going to focus on the accessibility category for this presentation but you can see you can create videos you can create presentations you can find collections of freely usable images and more so this is a wiki and what a wiki is is it's a tool that allows people to contribute to it so anybody in the world is welcome to go to the site hit the contribute menu at the top and you can then create an account and you would be able to add tools so if you have some tools that you think are useful for others you can add them and then it's a moderated wiki so shari or myself or other members will make sure it fits within the scope of what we're trying to achieve for professional growth and professional learning and then we would approve it and make it available so please continue to contribute you can also rate a tool so this is kind of how that crowdsourcing happens when something is given a number of upper ratings it can be sorted and you can sort and search by popularity or by the rating sheree it's back to you i'm you please okay i just wanted to talk a little bit about accessibility and why it is important in in the the college setting we always are embracing the ideas of diversity of our student body yet um people with disabilities is the largest minority group in the united states and they are traditionally underrepresented in college campuses so the other bonus though is if you're creating courses to be more accessible it's going to potentially help all of your students so it take but it takes planning and leadership and commitment to design accessible courses so um 11 of higher education students in the u.s have some kind of disability so um we should be bringing awareness to this and and helping make the courses more accessible to them i also wanted to get into the fact that there are different kinds of there's a spectrum of disabilities there will be some people who have a permanent disability that would be somebody with a genetic condition or a medical condition or maybe like a traumatic brain injury that that will only improve to a certain level um there's also temporary disabilities and these are things that um we could all have like maybe you break your wrist and for a while you're not able to to like write or type so so there's things like that and then maybe in that situation you'd want to find um some kind of speech to text option for your computer um somebody who's learning a new language is temporarily at a disability or has a disability because they're disadvantaged by not knowing that language um a lot of times when students are new to a concept and you're using technical jargon that is also considered a disability and then there's situational disabilities as well where um there's all this technology and noise and distractions and the students aren't able to actually focus on what what it is they need to focus on and then the idea of universal design for learning is is something that's pretty common in um the instructional design world now and that is building the course with your students in mind like so building it for everyone and what you might do is if you have audio or um video to make sure that the audio has a transcript and to make sure the video is captioned so nobody needs to ask for it to be in the format they need you already are anticipating that there are students who need this format or will who will prefer a particular format okay and so here's here's a chart that basically shows you like if you put something in a picture format you might have um blind or low vision students who can't see it so what you're going to do to make that accessible is you're going to have to have text to fully describe what it is that the image was showing or if they have if you have printed text like the low vision students or a student with a learning disability might need supplemental audio so so you here this table is just good to show you what you might need to be helping your students with go ahead and hand it over to robin okay so um we wanted to share with you a tool that um i was introduced to at one of the olc conferences recently and it's called the web 2.0 accessibility scorecard and it is developed by wendy torres she is a senior instructional technologist with copen state university and the link is here on the screen to be able to open up um the resource and i'm just going to show you very quickly so this is the wiki site and from here you can link to her presentation about the scorecard and to many of the other um options so i'm just gonna kind of go over that and kind of talk to you a little bit more about the square card there are a number of items on that scorecard that you can review against any of the technology tools that are out there some technology tools are much more accessible than others so one of the drawbacks of using freely available tools is that they have not been vetted by your campus so um you know you you have to do some of the leg work you have to determine is the tool that i'm considering using with my students is it fully accessible and um if not how do you make sure that your students all have an equal opportunity to participate in similar type of learning activities some of the items on that scorecard are highlighted on the slide can a tool be navigated and used only with a keyboard and does the tool have an option for either captioning or transcripts does it rely on color to convey meaning um and also um can the tool work across platforms that's pretty important and does the tool have a vp vpat and vpat stands for voluntary product accessibility template so those are just a few of the items that you'll see if you open up the scorecard and you can kind of navigate and review the different tools that you might find on the wiki if we do discover any tools that have any severe accommodation issues we do try to notate that on some of the records and basically if um you know if you're using a video editing tool that video editing tool may not have the ability to caption directly within that tool but you would then kind of take a step further and you would use additional tools that you might find to create those captions so um this is another page that wendy sponsors and she has a small library of reviews that she's done so far and um sheree and i kind of went through and picked out just a few examples um so flipgrid is one of the more popular tools lately and it's nice to know that it is one of those that is rated very highly accessible um powtoons um it needs some work so you might want to consider if you're going to have your students create an animation that's what powtoons is used for can you provide multiple animation tools so that there are choices for students and choice is probably one of the key words when you're trying to make your course content and activities accessible um quizlet is another item it's scored on 9 out of 15 and popplet is concept management and it is one of those that really has many flaws so you might want to look further so we did want to um kind of highlight some of the mtech wiki resources that you might find um this yellow link on here will take you to the accessibility um section not that one okay i guess i need to fix that link um you can go to the mtech wiki site and narrow by um just accessibility and i will show you that when i go to one of the first tools well actually let me do that so if you are here on the wiki this is the search page and if you are only interested to find what tools on the wiki help you create accessible resources you can just select from this item and it shows you um just a few items at a time they are given to you in random order if you want to show everything all at once you can show um everything or you can make them alphabetical you can sort by the highest rated or popularity and you're given pretty much three items at a time we don't want to give you a huge scrolling list but you'll note that many items might not be a tool they might be a resource that tells you more about accessible course design and then you're given a few others uh oh transcribe will help you um transcribe text there's a lot of um information out there on the wiki just about captioning but if you wanted to just you know share the accessibility link with others this link up at the top here that's what i should have on that slide that was not clicking for me but now i'm going to just talk about some of the resources we wanted to highlight and we do want to leave some time for question and answer so hopefully you might have some questions or objectives that you're trying to achieve and we can show you maybe a tool on the wiki that will help you meet that need so one of the resources that we wanted to highlight is this resource called live captioning without a budget and this was created by george mason university it is pretty recent we do try to make sure that the resources are current um so this document gives you a lot of different ways to do live captioning you can do it through google slides you can do live captioning using office 365 if you're trying to translate into other languages to make it your content accessible to um maybe non-english speaking learners um or english as a second language they can use this to caption in different languages um and here is the web captioner tool that's mentioned and then there's a few other items on that page um another resource on the wiki um another suny colleague martha greatrix and i had done an earlier suny workshop about creating captions on a shoestring budget so if you wanted to go here you can open up the youtube video and play it you can also access the slides that have embedded videos about how to do captioning how to do transcripts um and a few other items um sensitive mouse um also probably one of the easiest way to create captions so you can create videos animations and other podcasts in many many many tools they may not have captioning built right in um or your enterprise supported system whatever you that might use you might not have the captioning abilities you can always upload a video or audio into youtube you can make it private if that's what you so desire um and then you can have youtube create the captions for you um it will create an auto generated caption and then this document will tell you how to fine tune those captions so that you can um you know tweak any of the mistakes that are made because these automatic systems will make mistakes and they do need to be corrected so here i just noticed um something that needs to be removed uh youtube just recently discontinued the ability for others to contribute captions to other people's videos very disappointed to hear that so i i removed the record but i guess i had liked that so much i had also linked it from this page um pdf editors oh my mouse just wants to go forward pdf editors are something that is necessary pdfs are probably one of the vein of the existence for accessibility um not all pdf tools will allow you to do the editing that's necessary to create accessible content but through some of the different editors that are available you can find ones that will help you to create tags um if you have an image of text and you need to create it as optical character recognized text you can do that with some of these pdf editors and some campuses are lucky that they might have adobe acrobat pro for their faculty and students and some ub does not um maybe on a case-by-case basis so you do have to rely on some of these free tools to supplement the content that you're using dictation software is really great um it's a video that martha had just created it's not in our past workshop is how to use voice typing to kind of create your text transcript for you so i will often do that i'll create a video i'll narrate um you know what i want on that video use something like google docs voice typing to create a transcript and then upload that as my captions and it's um can be a little bit um you know different process than using the edit captions directly in youtube um read and write for google chrome will allow many different ways to have content read to a learner if they um prefer to have that audio channel as compared to reading and it also will do a number of other things trying to keep an eye on our time here um so those are just a small selection of some of the tools that you'll find on mtech wiki to make your content accessible um addition we have the suny fact2 online accessibility website as a resource so this takes you to a whole host of other resources that you might want to explore and site improve is an accessibility checker and that is something that at least the university at buffalo has purchased pro versions for many of the folks at our ub community what site improve does is it helps you make sure any websites that you develop have the proper alt tags for images have the proper captions have the the tables tagged correctly so site improve has a free version that you can access through this link and that was another resource that we wanted to share i will need to correct the link on that yellow highlight to make sure it brings you to the accessibility category um so why we do want to leave some time for questions and answers and um i think this is maybe one of the last few slides so the mtech wiki and mtech mooc are available to anyone across the world anyone at any campus suny faculty and staff do have an added benefit um that if you do choose to enroll in the mooc you can earn the digital badge for completion and also the coursera certificate of completion at no cost anybody else in the world they can go through the entire course we don't block out any of the course from other learners like some of the moocs do you can take all of the assessments get all of the feedback you can complete the course the only thing you won't get unless you're a non-sunni person and you choose not to pay the 29 course fee is that coursera certificate of completion so please share information across all of your campuses about this um the wiki especially and also the mooc and um you can go to the um document the links on this page there's a one minute trailer so if you don't want to listen to the whole half hour spiel that cherie and i are mentioning you can come here and um right under this section you have a link to share information with others so we have kind of the marketing materials all packaged up and ready for you to share um you can also copy any of this and rework it so that if you wanted to work this into a course assignment um we've had faculty who have adopted um the mooc for their entire course and had their students go through all five modules we've had faculty adopt just the lifelong learning module or just uh the communication module um and it's up to you if you just wanna you know say okay students you have a final project go to this wiki and create something that is a little bit more in-depth than an essay as your final project if you want your students to maybe do a presentation or a video or an infographic just share this site with them and tell them that it is there for them to find the tools that will best meet their needs we would appreciate that and kind of just want to wrap up our presentation um accessible learning for all what a concept students learn together with faculty together with learners from all over the world we have um so far in the two and a half years since the mooc has been launched we've had 23 23 000 uh learners who have enrolled and um they come from more than 150 different countries so um we have um i think i left us about five minutes for questions um and so please feel free to open up your mic and ask the questions directly there there is one question right in there already okay answering um it's is mtech mooc oer so yes um m-tech mooc is oer so anyone is welcome we have licensed it through creative commons you can go into the faq on the page and it says um information about that so if anybody wanted um to pick up this project in part or in whole and duplicate it they are welcome to do that and improve upon it they are certainly welcome to do do that we built the structure of the wiki um based on open source code um it is created on a wordpress website with bootstrap programming and so um if anybody has the need to create um a searchable database of anything um sheree and i talk often how we want to take the teaching and learning resources that have been building through suny in these past few months and create a different wiki that just says okay if you're learning interested in creating learning objectives or universal design or whatever the case might be if you have a need to use this backbone in any way let us know i can point you to the github to find those um the source code and um there is also um in addition to being an oer resource in itself there is a category of open educational resources so if um that's what you're interested in you can go here and you will find links to all of the suny resources um the suny affordable learning solutions website uh the lumen website um and there's 72 different resources that you can find that are just in listed under oer um and [Music] so is i hope that kind of answers that question also um i think with the oer i do want to also mention that the category for finding photos and images and you can search for multiple categories so if i wanted to find things that relate to photos and images and oer i can do that i'm going to just do photos and images so this um selection right here will help you find um ways to create photos so photo editing tools and also photo collections so find a couple different collections here that will um so all open.org you can go there and find
collections of photos that you can use that are freely able to be used um google advanced search is one of them that's in here and that will help you um search and narrow down by the different creative commons license here's a great source that helps you find images regarding public health and a collection that is put together by the center for disease control and prevention so if you want oer images and you're specifically interested in health related images that's a great resource for you so um we do have some time i hope that there are some questions that somebody robin we don't have time okay i was just about to cut her off okay sorry i thought i had some more time there so sorry i didn't leave time for questions but thank you very much thanks for interrupting me thank you we have a minute
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