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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It's never too late to become what you might have been. George
Eliot
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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