2. A Vision of Students
Dr. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University
http://youtu.be/dGCJ46vyR9o or for K12 http://youtu.be/_
A-ZVCjfWf8
3. 81% of teachers
agree that ICT
makes learning 66% of parents would like
more effective. schools to use technologies
such as text messaging and
21 st the internet to communicate
more frequently. However, only
Century 8% of parents were kept
informed using these methods.
Teacher
Students ranked ‘using
computers’ 4th out of The top 3 choices
16 when asked their were ‘learning in
favourite ways to learn groups’, ‘doing
but 95% are computer practical things’ and
users and 75% mobile ‘learning with friends’.
phone users (8-19 yrs) Becta
4. Accessibility issues
•Some aspects of the collaboration applications do not work
well with assistive technologies or allow for personalisation.
•Navigation and ease of use.
•Discussions have poor subject lines.
•Browser issues
•‘Open Source’ and free software may not always be
updated and improved as developers move on.
•Some online learning spaces specifically designedfor
education may not be easy to use and content inaccessible.
5. Well-known user-interface, evolved
from tools within word processors.
“red squiggly line”
Assistive technology tools that
work across most applications
Tools within web browsers
Support online
Photo credit: Flickr / laihiuyeung ryanne and Brian Cragun from IBM
6. AT working with other
applications
Dictionaries
Mind Mapping
Screen Reading
Magnification
Text to Speech
Reference software
7. Tools that work within Browsers
1. Word Processing, spread sheets and forms – Google Drive
(Google docs) and DropBox and Southampton Drop off!
2. Want a quick answer? – Wikipedia / Google Advanced /
Scholar – CiteUlike and Mendeley
3. Typing - Senselang Touch Typing
4. Concept Mapping – Bubble-us and MindMeister
5. Videos online – Not just YouTube and iTunes U but also
Jorum and Class Central plus our own Synote
6. Daisy Book Readers – tools for downloaded books
8. ?
10 Internet Technologies
by K. Walsh on September 4, 2011
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2011/09/10-internet-technologies-educators-
should-be-informed-about-2011-update/
1. Video and Podcasting Resources Image Capture
1.
2. Digital Presentation Tools 2. Student Response Systems &
3. Collaboration & Brainstorming 3. Educational Gaming
Tools
4. Blogs & Blogging 4. Open Educational Resources
5. Social Networking Tools 5. The iPad and other tablet de
Web2Access www.web2access.org.uk
9. Free Tools to read a web page
Webanywhere
ATbar
Text Selection /TTS
Dictionary
Font resizing, styles and line spacing
Page style changes
Word Prediction / spell checking
ReadPlease 2003
NaturalReader 10
T-Bar & Vu-Bar Colour changing / reading
window
10. Toolbar Additions - Firefox
Color That Site! Wikilook
Text to Voice 1.05 Dictionary.com
Colorfultabs Google toolbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/
12. Toolbar Additions for Chrome
Voice Search Chrome Webscreen shot for
taking snapshots of
LastPass password
more than the
manager
screen size
After the Deadline
Easy Reader
spell checker
MyNotesApp
https://chrome.google.com/extensions
13. Toolbar Additions for Opera
Autocomplete for the text input box.
Calculator
Password hasher Taskboard
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/
14. Toolbar Additions for Safari
Safari Reader – strips
out ads and provides
clear text
1Password create passwords
PDF Browser Plugin for reading PDFs in
the browser
Cooliris (formerly PicLens) for full screen
picture and video watching.
http://safariaddons.com/en-US/safari/
15. Pen Drives
From http://eduapps.org/
AccessApps, provides a range of solutions to support
writing, reading and planning, as well as sensory, cognitive
and physical difficulties.
TeachApps, is a collection of software specifically
designed for teachers or lecturers.
LearnApps, as its name implies, is specifically designed for
learners.
From http://
access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/projects/access-tools/download
an accessible menu for pen drive applications.
16. eReading
Stanza, Blio, Calibre, EasyReader, Adobe
PDF, Google Books
Image to Text, iBooks -ePub and PDF reader
-Supports VoiceOver interactions - iPhone
Moon+ Reader -Supports txt, html, epub,
zip, opds - control of colour, line spacing,
font size, orientation etc - Android
Chrom
e OS
iCloud
18. Thank you
E.A. Draffan
Web and Internet Science
Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton.
Mobile 07976 289103
E-mail: ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
College Students Research carried out by Dr. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University. 2300 web pages Survey: On average, how many web pages do you read each day? Average 21.51 (We then multiplied this by 105 - roughly the number of days in a semester - and rounded to 2300.) and 1281 facebook profiles Survey: On average, how many Facebook profiles do you view each day? Average 12.2 (multiplied by 105 = 1281) “ And over 500 pages of email” Survey: On average, how many pages of e-mails will you write in a single day? Average: 4.96 (*105 days/semester = over 500)
Harnessing Technology Review 2008: The role of technology and its impact on education http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_mr_02&rid=14900 Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context Mapping young people's uses of technology in their own contexts – A nationally representative survey http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_02&rid=17238 This report is part of the learner and their context strand of Becta's programme of managed research in support of the development of Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning 2008-14. A system-wide strategy for technology in education and skills. The aim of the learner and their context research is to gain up-to-date understandings about how a wide range of learners experience new technologies in their lives outside formal education, and the learning made possible by those experiences. Presented here are findings of a UK wide survey of one thousand young people aged 8, 12, 14 and 17 to 19 years old which help us understand more fully just how new technologies are experienced and how this is or may be applied to their learning. That young people tend to be relatively high users of technology whether at home or school, or somewhere else we know: At the ages of 12 and 14, the use of a computer and the internet is almost universal:99 per cent of 12-year-olds and 99 per cent of 14-year-olds use a computer at home or school, or somewhere else,97 per cent of 12-year-olds and 98 per cent of 14-year-olds use the internet at home or school, or somewhere else. But in what other ways do young people experience technology? Ninety five per cent of young people aged 8, 12, 14 and 17–19 use a computer, 88 per cent use the internet, 82 per cent play computer or console games, 76 per cent use a mobile phone, 70 per cent use an MP3 player, and 53 per cent use a digital camera. But where do young people develop skills, what are their concerns about technology, and just what exactly is it that they are doing? Readers of this report may wish to read it in conjunction with Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context - Key findings from the first year of research (Becta March 2009) and other research findings in the Harnessing Technology: The learner and their context series.
E.A. Draffan LexDis 11/07/12
Word Texthelp Spell checking with online Web browsers and ATbar Mobile learning – Android and Apple. Useful apps to support literacy available at http://www.inov8-ed.com/2011/03/theres-a-special-app-for-that-part-7-apps-that-support-literacy-instruction/ Specialist software e.g. TextHelp Read and Write, ClaroRead, Verity Spell checker, etc Browser spell checkers – built in or add-ons e.g. Google toolbar, ieSpell, Firefox British Dictionary Web based spell checkers - part of a web page or integrated into the text editor e.g. Facebook etc. Web based ‘ content sensitive checkers ’ e.g. Ginger and Ghotit. Microsoft Windows Live Writer if you have your own blog
Google docs for educators http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html DropBox http://www.dropbox.com/ Senselang Touch Typing- http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/ Mind mapping Bubble-us https://bubbl.us/ FX software http://www.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/assistive.htm Daisy Book Readers – http://www.daisy.org/tools/580
Older users. “ I can have the software I want rather than what university thinks I need.” “ I’m working on the computer more than paper, I cannot write in exams any longer!” “ I use my phone for timetabling, notes, dictionaries - everything.” e-books – “look like a book but don’t act like one – look like a web page but don’t act like one” VLEs Course notes Audio transcriptions - Synote Access to videos – Impatica, YouTube, Edshare http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/about.php Virtual networks have become more important (VPN) – facilitated better online collaboration. Linking to administration and finance – MLE and PLE Lecturers acting as facilitators in some courses – providing the environment for discussion and exploration. More tutorials online from other areas Google Books/Google Scholar before had to go to the library – not always available – domain specific portals Web 2.0 for collaboration – online rather than round a table – but need to be careful with the balance. “ Validating sources… no longer the master lecturer – it is resource based rather than person based.” Personalisation Accessibility because it is a necessity but also it has become a desire! More tools available – My StudyBar Vanilla personalisation! Learning preferences – understanding when and why to use the different types of resources – even these can be customised. Study software - EndNote & Evernote – Remember the Milk! Anki! Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-learning-2011/ Top 10 Most Visited Educational Games http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/ The Higher Education Academy and JISC are currently working in partnership to support phase 3 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/oer moblearn: an agent for change http://moblearn.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/top-m-learning-reports-of-2012.html