1. Unlocking Potential Welcome to RSCtv

2. Unlocking Potential ‘Accessing information in alternative formats:’ A guide for lecturers, library and support for learning staff

3. Unlocking Potential Why alternative formats? Size, colours and contrasts Learning styles Portablility Integrates with Assistive Technologies Keyboard / switch access Text to speech Mindmap Saves time and money

4. Unlocking Potential Books in alternative formats The hard way The easy way The easiest way..but… … so an even easier way…

5. Unlocking Potential Alternative alternative formats Photosynthesis (for example) images? PPTs? PDFs? Word docs? Videos? Searchskills for alternatives?

6. Unlocking Potential Attracting alternative formats to you RSS feeds Delicious accounts?

7. Unlocking Potential Designing-in your own alternative formats Structured Word documents (Benefits?) Convert to PDF (Benefits?) – Office / Open office MP3 (Benefits) – Balabolka / Dspeech / Robobraille DAISY (Benefits) - Create and Convert / AMIS/ Robobraille Design in Xerte Online Toolkits

8. Unlocking Potential More links www.techdis.ac.uk/getaltformat www.techdis.ac.uk/getebookplatforms www.techdis.ac.uk/getebooks www.eduapps.org