1. Part III Using Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices for Faculty

2. 2010 LT & ITC Showcase Teaching Students with Disabilities: Resources & Responsibilities 12 November 2010 Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices Dr. Maria Clayton Barbara Draude Dr. Jill Hague David Robertson

3. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  Introductions  Speakers  Topic Overview  Purpose  Raise awareness among faculty & admin  Share best practices on teaching/learning w/disabilities  Share some practical applications of best practices for Universal Design

4. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices When writing about the issue of AT as a means of improving accessibility, Carmela Cunningham and Norman Coombs suggest, “People with disabilities may have benefited more from the proliferation computers over the past two decades than any other population group. Computer technology provides for these individuals the tools needed to obtain a significant increment of independence and productivity hitherto unavailable to them” (vii). (Information Access and Adaptive Technology. Phoenix: Orynx Press, 1997)

5. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  Teaching with a Disability  Insights from faculty  Tools Used  Learning with a Disability  Insights from students  Tools Used

6. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  Universal Design Principles (UDL)  a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn  UDL Basics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4) UDL Basicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4  Guidelines Present information and content in different ways Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know Stimulate interest and motivation for learning

7. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  General Applications  Conferring with students  Using a variety of strategies  Multiple versions of assignments  Digital  Alternative text for images  Flexibility and openness (“adaptive faculty”)  Collaborative assignments  Conferencing toward content mastery  Privileging revision [e.g. portfolios]  Making use of IT resources within University

8. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  Online Applications  Consistency with the web site  Transformability  Multimodality  Focus and Structure  Text readability

9. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices  Specifics on Instructing Students:  Who are blind or visually impaired  Are deaf or hard of hearing  With speech impairments  With mobility impairments  With a cognitive disability

10. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies Best Practices  A student’s point of view : Words to Consider  Respect  Invite  Initiate  Partnerships  Easy-to-experience materials /presentations  Accountability  Class room activities  Announce  Guard the frustration factor

11. Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies Best Practices  Presenter contact information:  Dr. Jill Hague ahague@mtsu.eduahague@mtsu.edu  Dr. Maria Clayton mclayton@mtsu.edumclayton@mtsu.edu  David Robertson drobertson777@aol.comdrobertson777@aol.com  Barbara Draude bdraude@mtsu.edubdraude@mtsu.edu

12. Part IV Reflections/Conclusions and Wrap-up

13. One Minute Reflection Exercise  Consider how your awareness of disability issues has increased and how that will influence your interactions with students with disabilities.  Finish this statement: I am now more aware of …… and I will …………..  Identify one aspect of your course that may not be fully accessible or could be more universally designed and write an action statement on how that can be accomplished.

14. Wrap-up  Visit the Student Conduct Tutorial (http://www.mtsu.edu/countest/tutorial/)http://www.mtsu.edu/countest/tutorial/  Feedback - suggestions for a follow-up session  Questions / Comments  Thanks !!!  Tom Brinthaupt (tbrintha@mtsu.edu)tbrintha@mtsu.edu  Amy Burks (aburks@mtsu.edu)aburks@mtsu.edu  Maria Clayton (mclayton@mtsu.edu)mclayton@mtsu.edu  Barbara Draude (bdraude@mtsu.edu)bdraude@mtsu.edu  Gail Fedak (gfedak@mtsu.edu)gfedak@mtsu.edu  Jill Hague (ahague@mtsu.edu)ahague@mtsu.edu  Watson Harris (wharris@mtsu.edu)wharris@mtsu.edu  David Robertson (drobertson777@aol.com )drobertson777@aol.com