Dec 5, 2014
A sincere thank you to our colleague Susan Odgers for her December 1 Scoop post on Exclusion. The insightful points made in this article got me thinking about Universal Design (UD). People will be people, they’ll always have a tendency to act in ways that are hurtful...
Nov 17, 2014
One of our students came to me the other day with a situation regarding his accommodation. Background: the student has a condition that affects his fine motor skills leaving his handwriting illegible. One of the approved accommodations is a scribe during tests and...
Oct 31, 2014
When designing your course, writing an article, or developing training material, are you depending on color to convey a concept, denote a recurring item, or flag a requirement? This could be difficult for students that may be color-blind. In most cases it is reds and...
Oct 17, 2014
When creating a PowerPoint, it won’t matter how I format it, as long as it looks nice, right? No, and here’s why. When creating a PowerPoint presentation, you need to use the slide layout templates as opposed to just adding text boxes when formatting and adding...
Oct 10, 2014
Can I scan a document (handwritten, typed, copyright material, etc.) and post it in my Moodle course as a PDF? No, and here’s why. Scanned documents are treated like image files and therefore cannot be read by assistive technologies, such as a screen reader,...
