[Webpub] "Untangling the Web" satellite broadcast April 22

[Kathy Cahill]

Dear colleagues;

Please read and feel free to forward this email to any MIT colleagues or 
lists that might be relevant.

Thanks,
Kathy

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Announcing an event of interest to all faculty and staff delivering course 
information electronically:

"Untangling the Web: Making Online Teaching and Learning Accessible"
Live Satellite Broadcast, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:30-4:00 pm,
N42 Demo Center.   RSVP to Kathy Cahill, kcahill at mit.edu .

Produced by UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (UMUC) for PBS Adult 
Learning Service
Supported with grants from SBC Foundation and NEC Foundation of America

You are invited to participate in a live satellite broadcast on 
accessibility in online teaching and learning from 2:30-4:00 pm on April 
22, 2004. The broadcast will be in the form of a moderated panel discussion 
with call-in questions from participants at sites around the country.

Among the areas the program will cover:
* How students with disabilities are navigating the Web, and how 
inaccessible course content impacts the work of faculty and staff
* How to address accessibility problems posed by courseware, course 
management systems, multimedia, and use of audio and video in online courses
* What kind of collaborative models have been developed to help faculty and 
staff meet the challenge of online accessibility
* How to develop institutional coordination policies in your campus or 
organization
* What faculty and staff development programs can do to enhance 
understanding of disability and technology
* What role good teaching plays in improving online accessibility
* How Universal Design and Universal Design for Instruction can inform the 
process of ensuring online accessibility

Disability support providers as well as faculty, course designers, academic 
computing staff, and others impacted by online accessibility issues will 
want to participate in this program.

More detailed information about the program appears on the PBS Web Adult 
Learning Service site at
http://www.pbs.org/als/programs/unwe000.htm

For information regarding MIT's broadcast, please email Kathy Cahill, 
kcahill at mit.edu.


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