Lecture presented at ICTP Workshop "New Trends for Science Dissemination" in Grignano, Trieste. 28 september, 2011 A Moodle course on accessibility, as a step towards the use of creativity in online courses, integration with other tools, creation of a community. Course was designed and created by ASTRID group during the Master in E-Learning of Università della Tuscia and then adopted as a project to propose by Digital Co-Lab at Uhiversity of Parma.

1. A Moodle course on accessibility,
as a step towards
use of creativity in online courses,
integration with other tools,
creation of a community
Sara Valla
Workshop “New Trends for Science Dissemination”
ICTP - Trieste - Italy - 26 to 28 September 2011

2. What will we talk about?
• Accessibility for real UNDERSTANDING and
KNOWLEDGE diffusion
• Course project: source and brief history
• Use of CREATIVITY, INTEGRATION with TOOLS and
REPOSITORIES
• Moodle 2.1 features that made it possible
= 6 reasons to use Moodle 2.1
• Creation of a community?

3. Project “history”
Course

4. Project “history”
January-June, 2011 Course
Master
in E-Learning

5. Project “history”
January-June, 2011 Course
Master
in E-Learning
Project
work

6. Project “history”
January-June, 2011 Course
Master
in E-Learning
Project
work
ASTRID
group

7. Project “history”
January-June, 2011 Course
Master
in E-Learning
Project
work
ASTRID
group September, 2011

8. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Course
All materials WE created for the course

9. Course
Which METHOD
do you work with?

10. Course
Which METHOD
do you work with?
PLURALITY and VARIETY:
of tools and methods

11. Course
VID
EO
Which METHOD CTI VITY
INT ERA
do you work with?
M ICS
BLOG CO
PLURALITY and VARIETY:
of tools and methods
TEX
T BASE
DATA
RUM
FO

12. Course
VID
EO
Which METHOD CTI VITY
IN T ERA
do you work with?
M ICS
BLOG CO
PLURALITY and VARIETY:
of tools and methods
TEX
T BASE
DATA
For PA in Italy it is a DUTY
RUM
we want it to become a pleasure FO

13. Accessibility
Accessibility
?
➡ Does Science Dissemination also involve
accessibility
➡ What do you mean by accessibility in your
experience and vision

14. Accessibility
http://colab.cce.unipr.it/accessibility.html

15. Accessibility
http://colab.cce.unipr.it/accessibility.html
Accessibility meaning
Accessibility importance

16. Accessibility
Accessibility
We used a wide approach and considered a wide
meaning for the word accessibility

17. Accessibility
Accessibility
We used a wide approach and considered a wide
meaning for the word accessibility
available to as many people as possible

18. Modules
Course
1) regulations
2) TEXT DOCUMENT accessibility
3) (nearly) accessible PRESENTATIONS
4) WEB accessibility
5) VIDEO accessibility

19. Modules
Course
1) regulations
2) TEXT DOCUMENT accessibility
3) (nearly) accessible PRESENTATIONS
4) WEB accessibility
5) VIDEO accessibility
WIDE meaning
for the word
“ACCESSIBILITY”

20. Moodle course
• for project design and
development
• for course supply

21. a course on accessibility
should be accessible Accessibility
Course

22. 6 reasons (at least) to use Moodle 2.x
for our project (but not only...) Moodle
1. File management 4. New theme
and shared management:
repository system accessibility and CSS
code from system
2. Improved multimedia administration
capabilities (plugins)
5. Conditional activities
3. Easy menu
management and 6. New (TyniMCE) HTML
custom menu items editor

23. File Picker - Shared repository system
file upload Moodle
Add a resource File (COURSE)
USER files
Google Docs
license Wikimedia
management (images)
Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Repositories

24. Shared repository system Moodle
Video embedding
Easy video and sound
embedding
YouTube

25. std. installed multimedia plugins
YouTube Moodle
Vimeo
.mp3 - MPEG Audio Stream, Layer III
.flv - Flash video
.f4v - Flash video
.ogg - HTML 5 audio
.acc - HTML 5 audio
.webm - HTML 5 video
.m4v - HTML 5 video
.ogv - HTML 5 video
.swf - Macromedia Flash animation File (Adobe, Inc.)
Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Multimedia_plugins

26. Easy menu management
and custom menu items
Advanced Features - Appearance - Themes - Theme settings Moodle
Each line consists of menu text,
a link URL (optional)
a tooltip title (optional),
separated by pipe characters.
You can specify a structure using hyphens.
University of Parma|#
-Unipr |http://www.unipr.it
Co-lab (Digital Co-Laboratory)|#
-Colab VLE|http://colab.cce.unipr.it/colab_lea
--Moodle Docs|http://docs.moodle.org

27. New theme management: accessibility
and CSS code from system
Moodle
Advanced Features
Appearance
Themes
Theme name

28. New (TyniMCE) HTML editor
Moodle
Audio - Video Embedding
Emoticons
(must be enabled in Site Administration - Filters)
Images
Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Multimedia_plugins

29. Conditional activities
Moodle
to restrict the availability of
any activity according to
certain conditions:
• dates,
• grade obtained
• activity completion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnRz9RQtaMg

30. COURSE

31. SCORM LO Creativity
Integration

32. Creativity
Real
examples of
non accessible
communications

33. Creativity
Practical exercise:
“Tag the non accessible!
Moodle activity: database
Users insert examples with
comments and explanation

34. Surveys
Survey areas throughout
the course path
• Materials (judgement)
• Further requests?
• Assignment evaluation
• Course perception
• Are you having fun?
• Do you feel like a blogger?

35. “Story” Characters Creativity
Dr Divago
io divago means "I wander (from a subject)”
He is a bureaucrat
He becomes elated by
incomprehensible speeches and
texts.
He believes in the "old
philosophy" of institutional
language

36. Real examples Creativity
Notices put up in a board,
letters sent to the company
personnel from a Director

37. “Story” Characters Creativity
Simply
She believes in
comprehensible language and
writing.
She proposes good practices
and a “translation” of
messages

38. video examples Creativity
Integration

39. Creativity
Integration
videos for
assignments

40. Virtual tutor Creativity
Integration
Voki is a FREE service that lets you:
➡ Create customized speaking avatars.
➡ Add your voice to your Voki avatars.
➡ Embed your Voki into any blog and
website

41. Comics Creativity
+ cticious characters Integration

42. Creativity

43. Creativity
Integration
video creation
with comics,
characters
images
embedding

44. Creativity
Integration
video tutorials
(Capture Video for subtitle
creation, subtitle adding
with YouTube)

45. COMMUNITY (of practice)
Community
We already created a
community through
community of people
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
interested in the topic
and creation of
during design...our
INTEREST
group!
FORUM ?
FACEBOOK GROUP?
OTHER WAYS?

46. Digital Co-Laboratory Co-Lab
contacts and channels
➡ E-mail: colab@unipr.it
➡ Twitter: CoLab_UniPR
➡ Facebook page: www.facebook.com/
colabunipr
Use #colabunipr to
tweet something
useful for us

47. Thanks to
• Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro
- Delegate of the Rector for Distance Learning (University of Parma)
• Università della Tuscia
• “ASTRID” group:
Alberto Ardizzone, Rosaria Candiloro, Maridea Carosella, Carmine
Iacovella, Federica Scarrione, Roberto Versaggi, ... and me... :-)
• “ASTRID” tutor: Angela Iaciofano
• Saveria Arma, Carlo Eugeni (experts in subtitles and audio-
description)
• Digital Co-Lab Group

48. Thanks for Yr. attention!
Questions?
Thanks to the staff of SDU (Science Dissemination Unit)
of ICTP for the invitation
To contact me:
Sara Valla
E-mail: sara.valla@unipr.it
Twitter: thuridilla
Skype: saraunipr