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Librarian discount on Workshop on Adapting info tech for disabled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Norm Coombs)
Tue Apr 15 22:33:16 1997
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:44:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
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Below is the standard announcement. Librarians can have the workshop for $95
(reduction of $55), if they register between now and April 21 which is the
starting date. Send mail to nrcgsh@rit.edu saying you are a librarian and
would like the librarian April 97 discount.
Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu
Modern technology has opened the doors to mainstream learning for
students with disabilities through the use of adaptive computer
technology. Here is an online training opportunity to help you
create such a learning and work place. Starting April 21, the
training is delivered by email over a four-week period. You can
do it at your own pace. You can interact with experienced
teachers. You can interact with other people like yourself
working to provide such an access to information technology.
Check out http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Schools and universities can now provide a barrier-free learning
environment. In fact, by law they are required to do so. This
same level of access to the workplace is provided by these same
technologies, and businesses and other organizations will
benefit from this workshop as well.
Topics to be covered include:
Lesson 1: Personal introductions
Lesson 2: Introduction and Definitions
Lesson 3: Hands-on Experience With Adaptive Software
Lesson 4: Demographics and Reasons to Adapt
Lesson 5: It's the Law
Lesson 6: Adapt-it Video and Resource Manual
Lesson 7: Physical Access
Lesson 8: Alternate Input Issues
Lesson 9: Alternate Output Issues
Lesson 10: Compensatory Strategies and Lab Etiquette
Lesson 11: Putting It All Together
Lesson 12: Planning and Funding
The registration fee for the adapt-it workshop, which includes a
video and resource manual, is $150.
Adapt-it Instructors:
Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Chair of EASI: Equal Access to Software and information
Consultant on distance learning and adaptive computing
nrcgsh@rit.edu
http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
Richard Banks
EASi Electronic Resource Manager
Adjunct Ratchasuda College, Mahidol University, Thailand
rbanks@discover-net.net
For more information either see the web http://www.rit.edu/~easi
or
email to nrcgsh@rit.edu
Starting date is April 21
