EASI 4-part, fee-based Webinar Series: Streaming More Accessible Multimedia
Tuesdays July 10,17,24 and 31
Times: 11 AM Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, 2 PM Eastern

This series is fee-based, but they are free to EASI Annual Webinar members. 
Registration details are at the bottom of this announcement.

Besides watching 4 hour-long Webinars during July, participants will be 
provided with assignments for each week to do hands-on practice based on 
the Webinar content.

Week 1: Making audio presentations more accessible
This will have the participants downloading the open-source software, 
Audacity,
and learn creating audio and also basic editing.
Creating audio using a micand importing pre-recorded audio
  Removing part of a recording and pasting in new content
  Mixing a music track with a talking track
  Fading in and fading out
  Raising and lowering the track gain
  ading other sound effects

Week 2: making multimedia with Powerpoint
Creating a narrated PowerPoint with the user having control of the display
  Creating a narrated PowerPoint designed to stream like a movy
  Using the Lecshare wizard to add narration and captions to a Web version of
PowerPoint with the user controling its display
  Using the wizard to create a web-based movy with narration and captions

  Week 3: Making accessible videos using Camtasia
  (Participants who do not have Camtasia can download a 30-day demo.)
  Understand the features of Camtasia
  Import a video made by a digital video camera or use a sample video 
provided to
Webinar participants
  Planning foreground and background to improve accessibility
  Planning the script to facilitate users with visual impairments

Week 4: Posting accessible video to Youtube.
How to upload a video to Youtube
  Learning the accessibility tools in Youtube
  How to edit the transcript and captions created by Youtube

EASI Annual Webinar members should register from the member-only page at:
http://easi.cc/member/

Non-member registration is $225 for the series. The link below will let you 
register and pay using a PO, a check or a credit card. Pick the EASI 
Webinar conference starting July 10:
http://easi.cc/

A limited number of EASI scholarships are also available:
http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm



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Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students 
with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html