2. An educational Web-portal New opportunities for Visually Impaired Students

3. Educational institutes for special education cluster 1 Sensis, Grave Bartiméus, Zeist Visio, Huizen Kennisnet ICT at School

4. Special Education

10. Concentration of pupils with the same disability Teachers with disability-specific experience Wealth of disability-specific information and instruction material Whole environment tuned to teach visually disabled pupils

11. Integration in mainstream education 75% of pupils in mainstream education 75 peripatetic teachers (special school teachers) Peripatetic teachers tend to be general teachers Mainstream setting with mainstream educational material

12. Goal of eduVIP Maintaining / restoring the special educational environment for our visually impaired students By means of webbased educational information and instruction material and applications

13. Target groups of eduVIP Peripatetic teachers of visually impaired pupils/students Teachers in Special Education Teachers in Mainstream Education Pupils/students with a visual impairment

14. Divisions of eduVIP ICT courses for VIPs Touch-Typing course for VIPs Additional education material for VIPs Visual training courses for VIPs Didactic information for teachers

15. What can be retrieved from eduVIP Everything that can be produced in a digital format ICT courses for Windows, Word, Excel etc. Didactic information for teachers per subject and school type

16. What can be retrieved from eduVIP Images, ready to produce tactile material Special Software applications Laws and regulations Information about the visual system and visual perception

17. Scenarios PS5 introduction to writing BL5 reading and writing Braille (Dynamic Braille Project)

18. Scenarios BL8 Getting a computer with assistive technology (Braille & Speech) - How a blind person uses a computer - How to teach Touch-typing - How to teach a blind computer user Windows and Word etc…

19. Job First IT training

21. Specs Touch-Typing program Full curriculum Webbased Webbased tracking of results/progress

22. Scenarios PS8 Visual stimulation and training

23. Kijktraining

26. Specs visual training program Many different exercises Application adapts to level of pupil Based on ‘Inzicht’ specifications (scientific research results) Based on ‘Kijkdoos’ a successful existing program for visual training

27. Scenarios PS10 and BL10 Should use a calculator PS10 and BL10 Should use an agenda to keep track of homework, projects etc..

28. Scenarios PS12 and BL12 Understanding maths BL16 Making and presenting PowerPoint presentations

29. Specific Teaching material

30. Clear drawings Prepared for making tactile material

31. Scenarios School management needs to know what extra money the school can obtain for a blind student (in secondary education) Teacher needs to know what it means to have ‘Diabetes Mellitus’, ‘Astigmatisme’ etc., and what the consequences are in regard to learning

32. eduVIP Digital support for the education of the visually impaired Support for teachers and students Support for specialist and mainstream education Communication between teachers And more…

33. End of eduVIP presentation

34. Dynamic Braille Project The development of an educational computer program for the teaching of Braille Based on the use of (synthetic) Speech and refreshable Braille For young children and mature learners

37. Reasons / necessities to seek other methods of teaching Change of educational visions Change of educational settings Change of learning strategies Change of technical possibilities

38. Change of educational visions E-learning holds the future Inclusion is the way (WSNS together at school again) The start of paperless schools in the Netherlands From 2010 all exams computerised Society is changing and VI pupils too (networking, gaming, self discovery and challenging)

39. Change of educational settings Integrated versus special education (75% of visually impaired pupils are integrated) Peripatetic teachers are increasingly trained as general teachers More teaching by general (mainstream) teachers

40. Change of educational strategies Independent Peer to peer (communication) Technological Flexible Request based Attractive

41. Change of technical possibilities Computers in education Network facilities in all schools Availability of assistive technology for schools and students

44. Existing Winbraille project Used in practice for some years (DOS/Win) At the least a good ‘Proof of concept’ Teacher-oriented Not user (teacher) friendly But still…

50. Full ‘PC’ features available for an educational program Universally usable with current equipment Good possibilities for independent learning Compatible with current mainstream IT hardware and teacher skills Possibilities to provide complete curriculum for learning and teaching Braille Dynamic Braille Project

51. Specs Dynamic Braille Works with as many different Braille displays as possible Consist of instructions, exercises and games

52. Specs Dynamic Braille The structure of the program is in modules Number of modules are extendible New modules can be made available by the internet Possibilities of distant education

53. Dynamic Braille Project Compatible with current teaching vision Compatible with actual learning strategies Compatible with current teaching settings Compatible with assistive technologies used

54. Contact details: www.eduvip.nl www.sensis.nl www.bartimeus.nl www.visio.org Dick Lunenborg d.lunenborg@bartimeus.nl T: +31-306 982 220 Don van Dijk dvdijk@sensis.nl T: +31-486 471 215 Titia Thomason titiathomason@visio.org T: +31-355 773 300 Henk Snetselaar h.snetselaar@bartimeus.nl T: +31-306 982 350