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Announcing a New Webinar Feature!
We are pleased at the number of people who follow EASI Webinars and frequently return. We feel we are becoming a big family! We want to build on this sense of community and provide more opportunities for interaction. EASI has just started a Webinar Blog which will let people comment on planned Webinars including raising topics for the presenters to cover. Also the blog will let people share after the Webinar and still pose further questions to the presenters.
The EASI Webinar Blog has just opened but is in beta version and will be improved as you give us ideas to help us:
Highlighting Recent WEBINAR Archives
Archive of the Webinar Digital Books Players: A Review
Archive of a 2-hour Presentation on the Refresh of 255/508 rule-making
WEBINARS BY MONTH
All Webinars will be recorded and archived for those who register for them.
EASI is pleased to make the commitment to have live captions for all of its fee-based Webinars.
EASI is producing 2 series of Interactive Webinars on specific accessibility-related topics. You can listen to the presenter, and watch as the presenter pushes Web pages and also ask questions yourself. These are hour-long presentations covering general topics and frequently dealing with more advanced materials. One series is free to the public providing an overview of up-to-date information about current events in accessibility. The other series is fee-based, (currently $225, but free for EASI Webinar Annual Members ), and these usually consists of a set of 4 presentations providing detailed, -on, skill-based experience with applications that facilitate creating accessible content.
EASI Webinar Series Annual Membership
EASI has established 2 programs of Webinar membership: one for an individual and another for an entire institution. For one single, moderate price, members have a discount providing access to the Webinar series for a single year. Members will also have a discount on all EASI's month-long courses (read about the courses by selecting the Online Courses link on the home page).
Read more here about Webinar membership
September Webinars
Creating Online Course Content Using MS Office: Tools You Already Know and Use
An EASI 4-part Fee-based Webinar Series
(This series is free to EASI Annual Webinar Members)Presenter: Norman Coombs from EASI
Tuesdays: September 7, 14, 21 and 28
11AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
Most faculty and instructional designers creating course content to upload to the Learning Management System do not know and hope not to have to learn actual HTML code. This series will show how, using the universal design features of Word, it it is possible to produce content that is reasonably accessible. PowerPoint features can be selected to make its native output reasonably accessible. There are wizards that will transform well-designed PowerPoint into accessible Web pages without the author learning actual Web design.
This 4-part series will give participants exercises to do during the week to practice the features presented in each Webinar. The course will conclude by introducing tools to enable designers to test the accessibility of their online content.
Week 1: Selecting the right tool for the job!
Plan what you want to discuss and select the tool that conveys that content clearly and which works best in that delivery environment
Week 2: Using the universal design features built into Word
Week 3: Using the universal design features in PowerPoint and become familiar with the wizards which readily transforms PowerPoint for delivery as accessible Web pages
Week 4: 1. Understanding access issues in tables and spreadsheets and 2. using free tools to check the accessibility of your Web content
The link below will let you register and pay online for this series. When you reach the registration site, select EASI Web conferences and select September 7 as the series you want.
Register for Making Online Learning Accessible and pay here
SoftChalk : Authoring Tool For E-learning
Presenter: Steven Saltzberg, LLC
September, Wed. 15
11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
With SoftChalk you can....
- Create interactive web pages for your e-learning course. It's easy, quick, and your lessons will look like a professional designer created them.
- Engage your students with lessons that include pop-up text annotations, self-assessment quizzes, and interactive learning games.
- Package your lessons for delivery via CD-ROM, Intranet, Internet, or integrate with your LMS (Learning Management System).
If you can use a word-processing program, you can use SoftChalk. Designed for teachers and content-experts who don't have time to learn complex software, SoftChalk is simple, yet powerful, with only the features you need to create exciting, interactive, content for your online course.
Free Webinar: Word 2010 Accessibility Features including the Accessibility Checker
Wednesday September 29 at 11 Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 Eastern
Presenter: Karen McCall, M.Ed. Microsoft MVP 2009 for Word
Microsoft has consistently added accessibility features and tools for document authors with each version of its Office applications. This webinar will provide an overview of some of the tools available to create more accessible documents and content. One new tool is the Accessibility Checker which gives document authors the ability to perform a mechanical check of their documents. This webinar will include information on Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
October-November
Free Webinar, LecShare: Going Beyond Accessible Web pages to Include Audio and Video
Presenter: Norman Coombs From EASI
Wednesday, October 6 at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
LecShare is widely known as a wizard to transform PowerPoint presentations into a sequence of accessible Web pages. LecShare Pro has the ability to add either audio to the presentation or output the presentation as a video. This Webinar will demonstrate both its audio and video capabilities.
Accessibility of Moodle, Desire2Learn, Sakai and Blackboard
A Four-part Webinar Series on the Accessibility of Learning Management Systems
Oct. 19, 26 and Nov. 2 9 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenters for each Webinar is being finalized and a detailed description will be here soon.
The series fee is $225. Those who register will receive a copy of the new Book, Making Online Teaching Accessible by N Coombs.
Webinar Annual Members can register free at the member site
Others can use the link below to register and pay online. When you reach the payment page, select Web conference and select the date Oct. 19
Register for the 4-part LMS Accessibility Series
EASI Free Webinar: Accessible Widgets Using Web 2.0
Presenter: Hadi Rangen, University of Illinois
Wednesday Nov. 3: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central and 2 PM Eastern
Web 2.0 is a broad and not very accurate term mainly including a host of new interactive features of the Web. The Web Accessibility Initiative has developed guidelines to make Web 2.0 products accessible. The guidelines are called Accessible Rich Internet Applications, (ARIA). Hadi will provide an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA to create accessible rich internet applications and point to some accessible widgets.
EASI 4-part Series: Making Accessible Flash
Tentative dates: Nov. 16,23, 30 and December 7
(This series will be sponsored by Adobe meaning it will be free for everyone)
Presenters include Adobe staff and others yet to be finalized
A registration link will be here SOON as we will need to have you reserve space in the conference room. Come back and register soon!
January 2011
Several Webinars are being actively planned. These include:
Four-part Series on Learning Disabilities
Four-part Series on Science and Math Access
Four-part Series on Accessible PDF using Acrobat
What do you want to know? We'll look for someone to talk about it!
What do you know that you'd like to tell us about?
Getting ideas and finding someone knowledgeable who will share what they know is the hardest part of bringing you these Webinars.
Drop e-mail to me with your help at Norm Coombs with your ideas
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