EASI has five series planned for this academic
year. Two are
scheduled in September and October. Three more are being finalized
for next
winter and spring.
·
Beginner-Intermediate
PowerPoint 4-part series
(scheduled in September)
·
EASI Fee-based, 4-part
Series: Word 2013: Beyond
the Basics (scheduled in October)
·
Alt-media Creation and
Production (tentatively
in November-December)
·
Fee-based, 4-part series:
Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math (planned for January-February 2016)
·
Creating and editing
accessible PDF documents
based on the PDFUA standard (planned for March-April 2016)
Presenter: Norm
Coombs, Professor Emeritus from RIT and CEO of EASI
Dates:
Thursdays Sept. 10, 17, 24 and October 1
Times: 11
Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
(use the link
at the bottom to read more and register online)
PowerPoint is a
popular content-delivery tool for both online and on-site
college courses.
PowerPoint content is usually created by professors with limited
technical
know-how, but it is not complex enough to require being provided
by information
support staff. These four weeks will be designed for
non-technical content
providers. Once the creator learns the basics of this tool,
making their
content fully accessible for students with disabilities using
assistive
technologies will not be burdensome. Llearning to use this
application more
efficiently will enable content creators to work easier and
faster, and it will
simultaneously enable their creating content that is fully
accessible.
Each lesson
will suggest 1-2 activities that participants can try to get the
feel of how
the PowerPoint features covered that week actually work. These
activities will
enable particpants to know they understood the material and to
master it in
ways that help them remember the content.
EASI annual members register at the passworded
page:
http://easi.cc/member/index.htm#ppt
Currently the member username is equal
The current member password is access
Norm Coombs