Global Accessibility Awareness Week at UW Bothell – May 15-19, 2017

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UDAL + GAAD - Global Accessibility Awareness Week - May 15-19, 2017

The UW Bothell Universal Design for Active Learning (UDAL) Initiative Core Group is pleased to announce Global Accessibility Awareness Week (GAAW) at UW Bothell, a week-long series of events on campus to promote awareness for accessibility here at UW Bothell in the classroom, at work, and on the web, in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) May 18!

The UW Bothell UDAL Initiative Core Group members are always ready to assist you! If you are interested in learning more about the UDAL Initiative Core Group or the UW IT Accessibility Liaison Program feel free to contact any of us!

  • Sara Frizelle – eLearning Planning and Research Specialist, IT/Learning Technologies
  • Rosa Lundborg – Veteran Services & Disability Resources for Students Manager, Student Affairs
  • Ashley Magdall – Web Support Specialist, Advancement & External Relations
  • Jeane Marty – Senior Front-end Software Engineer, IT/Enterprise Services Delivery Team
  • Ana Thompson – Learning Technologist, IT/Learning Technologies

Go to the online Registration Form to sign up for any or all events!

Monday May 15th at 11am – Kickoff

Rose Room (UW1-280)

The kick-off event will be held in the Rose Room (UW1-280), with an opening speech on Universal Design for Instruction and WA Policy #188, by Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler, Director of Access Technology Center and DO-IT, followed by a presentation on STEM Accessibility by Krista Greear, Assistant Director of the Access Technology Center. Both presenters are from UW Seattle IT. This session will be very informative on the current state of the WA State accessibility policy and University of Washington accessibility efforts to meet requirements.

Tuesday May 16th at 1pm – Web Accessibility

UW1-120

Tuesdays event will be held in UW1-120, Ashley Magdall, Web Support Specialist at UW Bothell will be hosting a Wen Accessibility Kentico training, panel and demonstration as part of this week-long series of events focused around accessibility in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 18)!

This session will include a:

  • brief overview of how to make your website content accessible in Kentico (notes provided by me)
  • short demonstration of various assistive technology (including a demo of a screen reader!)
  • panel with web accessibility specialists from UW Bothell and UW Seattle.

Everyone is encouraged to bring all of their accessibility questions; this is a rare opportunity to ask the experts and get answers right away!

The panel line up is below and a good time is guaranteed!

  • Hadi Rangin – IT Accessibility Specialist,UW IT Access Technology Services – Expert screen reader user
  • Dan Comden – Access Technology Center Manager,UW IT Access Technology Services – Assistive technology expert
  • Anna Marie Golden – IT Accessibility specialist,UW IT Access Technology Services – Web content expert
  • Jeane Marty – Senior Software Engineer, UW Bothell IT Enterprise Services Delivery Team – Front-end accessible development expert
  • Ashley Magdall – Web Support Specialist,Advancement & External Relations – Trainer

A screen reader demonstration will also take place. All are welcome!

Wednesday May 17 at 10am, 11:15am and 1pm – Captioning and Canvas

LB2-216 (just past the UW Bothell IT Help Desk)

Events will be held in LB2-216, there will be two sessions on video captioning. The first one at 10am, Ana Thompson from UW Bothell Learning Technologies, will be hosting: “Captioning in Panopto – Who Knew!”.

The second session, at 11:15am, Ana Thompson will present on “How to Make Canvas Content Universally Accessible for Your Students (One Step at a Time)”.

The third session, at 1pm, will have experts from UW Seattle IT, Doug  Hayman, Adaptive Technology Specialist and Susie Hawkey, Operations Manager, both experts from UW IT Access Technology Services, will cover how to use amara.org as well as YouTube’s built-in editor, which are both free captioning options.

Thursday, May 18 – GAAD Celebration at UW Seattle Campus

Participate in events at the UW to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day and the importance of digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities. Offerings include assistive technology demonstrations; everyday tips for increasing accessibility; an accessibility tools showcase; and workshops on captioning videos, making PDFs accessible, advanced web accessibility techniques. The activities are coordinated by Accessible Technology Services.

For a full listing of events, go to the Accessible Technology Events and Collaboration website.

Friday May 19 at 9:30am and 11:00am  – Document Accessibility Strategies

UW2-005

GAAW will end with a bang in UW2-005, Gaby de Johng, IT Accessibility Specialist at UW IT Access Technology Services, will present on MS Office and PDF Document Accessibility. This session will show how to easy it is to create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents universally accessible from the start. After the document accessibility session, we will have closing remarks and price giveaways.

Go to the online Registration Form to sign up for any or all events!

Please sign-up for as many events as you like. Aside from the great training, tips and tricks that we will be sharing, we will be giving away prizes on Friday. The more events you attend, the more entries you can submit, increasing your chances to win! If you would like a calendar invitation to any of the accessibility events, please contact Ashley Magdall at arm29@uw.edu.

We would like to thank the sponsors of the event for their support and collaboration, making this event possible.

Questions? Feel free to contact:

Ana Thompson, thomana@uw.edu or Ashley Magdall, arm29@uw.edu

Thank you!

Digital Media Services at UW Bothell

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Have you heard about Digital Media Services (DMS)? As part of the Learning Technologies department, we work with faculty to support digital media use across campus and in the classroom. We also support the Digital Media Lab (DML), a media production classroom in UW2-121, and the Open Learning Lab in UW2-140.

What else does Digital Media Services do?

  • Works with faculty to incorporate media production into their assignments.
  • Provides media production software training for faculty and staff.
  • Administers in-class digital media workshops.
  • Offers digital media tutoring, canvas and e-portfolio support for students.
  • And Much More!

Interested in anything listed above?

Feel free to email us at learningtech@uwb.edu.

Canvas Tips & Tricks

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Student Groups vs. Assignment Group

Student Groups and Assignment Groups in Canvas are two very different features.

Student Groups are a way to organize your students into online groups. Each group in Canvas has its own set of tools to help facilitate collaboration. These tools include a discussion area, pages, files, collaborations, and a shared calendar.

When would I use a student group?

Student groups can be used when you want to give students tools in Canvas that will allow them to collaborate in order to finish an assignment or project. When students are put into groups in Canvas it gives them the ability to turn in a shared group assignment/project. It also allows for you to assign a group grade for the assignment/project.

Assignment groups are simply a way to organize and manage the graded items in your course. For example, you can organize the graded items by groups such as discussions, exams, homework, etc. You can have as many or as few of these assignment groups as needed.

When would I use an Assignment group?

Using assignment groups are a must if you are going to weight your grades or if you would like to drop a low or high score from a group of assignments.

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Turnitin in Canvas

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What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is a web-based system that allows student papers to be submitted and checked for plagiarism. The Turnitin system compares student papers with sources available on the Internet, select commercial article databases, and papers submitted at UW or other institutions using Turnitin. For every paper submitted to Turnitin, a unique customized Originality Report is generated. Each report identifies the matches that the system made, which can then be investigated.

The University of Washington has a site license for Turnitin. Canvas instructors can set Assignments that are submitted online to be submitted for a Turnitin check. When submitting such assignments, students will see a note that the assignment will be checked for plagiarism. When the review is complete, instructors receive the unique Originality Report.

How to use it?

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Tegrity Professional Learning Opportunity – From Wherever You Might Be

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Hone your Tegrity skills from wherever you might be. This quarter, Tegrity is offering a series of free online webinars.

It’s all About Results: Using Tegrity to Improve Student Performance and Using Data Analytics to Understand Efficacy
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 8:45 AM

Click Here to Register

Student Success and Ease of Use with Tegrity: “What’s in it for you and your students”

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:45 AM

Click Here to Register

Learning-focused Features Make Big Impact on Students

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:45 AM

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Exploring Active Learning Strategies at UW Bothell

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Research shows that active learning can enhance student learning. Active learning is generally defined as students actively engaging in course activities such as discussions, group work and problem solving, usually within the context of the classroom. At UW, there are a number of faculty who are participating in a tri-campus active learning faculty community that is exploring how to incorporate active learning into teaching and learning. The groups from each campus are meeting collectively via video three times during the quarter as well as meeting individually between the tri-campus meetings. The UWB faculty learning community is being led by Andreas Brockhaus, Director of Learning Technologies, David Goldstein, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and Erin Hill, QSC Director.

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AAEEBL Presentation: The Narcissus Quandary

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What does the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo have to do with building electronic portfolios at UW Bothell? More than you may think.

At least that was Dr. Kris Kellejian’s and my argument made during a presentation this past summer at the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidenced-Based Learning (AAEEBL) International Conference in Boston, MA.

Reflecting on Narcissus

Entitled “The Narcissus Quandary: The Possibilities and Limits of Teaching Reflection,” our presentation sought to problematize questions of self-reflection by playing with the theme of narcissism and the socially-minded and future-oriented dimensions of self-reflection. By reflecting on the story of Narcissus and Echo, we showed the pitfalls of assuming that self-reflection is necessarily a solipsistic act.

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Digital Scholarship at UW Bothell

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Digital media production is an important form of scholarly research and instruction here at the University of Washington Bothell. Below is a list of student made media projects links and information about the class, topics and professors that made this work possible.

Prof. Jill Freidberg’s “Working with Audio” class produced a great collection of audio storytelling projects last quarter. “Sound surrounds us. It’s the invisible element that only becomes obvious when it goes away. Sound is information, stories, location, and memories. It tells us where we are and where we’re going. It fills in the blanks. It forces our imaginations to create the pictures that go with the sounds we hear. It reminds us of places we’ve been, things we’ve done, and feelings we’ve had. Sound alerts us to danger, sets us at ease, wakes us up and puts us to sleep. Sound is everywhere.” – From the BIS 234 Course Description

http://bis234.weebly.com/our-work.html

Prof. Jane VanGalen’s education students put together an excellent RSA video called “The Muses Go to School: Inspiring Stories about the Importance of Arts in Education”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qLKQlY8bAI

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ePortfolio Resources at UW Bothell

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As we approach the end of the academic year, students across programs are gathering and reflecting on their curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular work; they are thinking about their futures and possible paths to take to achieve their goals; and they are writing essays that provide coherent narratives of their personal, academic, and professional trajectories. In other words, students are working on electronic portfolios (eportfolios).

All first-year students in CUSP complete an eportfolio as a culminating project for their first year experiences. Tasked with reflecting on at least three artifacts of their own learning, like papers, projects, presentations, and artworks, CUSP students write an evidence-based narrative essay to show where they have been, where they are now, and where they are going, in terms of their academic and professional goals.

Students in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (SIAS) produce degree portfolios in which they demonstrate their achievement of the SIAS learning goals. Started in the first major-level course, BIS 300 Interdisciplinary Inquiry, and completed in BIS 499, the Capstone Portfolio course, the eportfolio works as a tool for student learning as well as an instrument for programmatic assessment.

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