A Moodle course on accessibility
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The document discusses a Moodle course focused on accessibility, emphasizing the integration of creativity and various tools for online education. It outlines course modules covering regulations, accessibility in documents, presentations, web content, and video, as well as highlights features of Moodle 2.x that support these goals. The course aims to foster a community of practice among participants interested in enhancing science dissemination through accessible communication and creativity.
A Moodle course on accessibility
- 1. A Moodle course on accessibility, as a step towards use of creativity in online courses, integration with other tools, creation of a community Sara Valla Workshop “New Trends for Science Dissemination” ICTP - Trieste - Italy - 26 to 28 September 2011
- 2. What will we talk about? • Accessibility for real UNDERSTANDING and KNOWLEDGE diffusion • Course project: source and brief history • Use of CREATIVITY, INTEGRATION with TOOLS and REPOSITORIES • Moodle 2.1 features that made it possible = 6 reasons to use Moodle 2.1 • Creation of a community?
- 3. Project “history” Course
- 4. Project “history” January-June, 2011 Course Master in E-Learning
- 5. Project “history” January-June, 2011 Course Master in E-Learning Project work
- 6. Project “history” January-June, 2011 Course Master in E-Learning Project work ASTRID group
- 7. Project “history” January-June, 2011 Course Master in E-Learning Project work ASTRID group September, 2011
- 8. Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Course All materials WE created for the course
- 9. Course Which METHOD do you work with?
- 10. Course Which METHOD do you work with? PLURALITY and VARIETY: of tools and methods
- 11. Course VID EO Which METHOD CTI VITY INT ERA do you work with? M ICS BLOG CO PLURALITY and VARIETY: of tools and methods TEX T BASE DATA RUM FO
- 12. Course VID EO Which METHOD CTI VITY IN T ERA do you work with? M ICS BLOG CO PLURALITY and VARIETY: of tools and methods TEX T BASE DATA For PA in Italy it is a DUTY RUM we want it to become a pleasure FO
- 13. Accessibility Accessibility ? ➡ Does Science Dissemination also involve accessibility ➡ What do you mean by accessibility in your experience and vision
- 15. Accessibility http://colab.cce.unipr.it/accessibility.html Accessibility meaning Accessibility importance
- 16. Accessibility Accessibility We used a wide approach and considered a wide meaning for the word accessibility
- 17. Accessibility Accessibility We used a wide approach and considered a wide meaning for the word accessibility available to as many people as possible
- 18. Modules Course 1) regulations 2) TEXT DOCUMENT accessibility 3) (nearly) accessible PRESENTATIONS 4) WEB accessibility 5) VIDEO accessibility
- 19. Modules Course 1) regulations 2) TEXT DOCUMENT accessibility 3) (nearly) accessible PRESENTATIONS 4) WEB accessibility 5) VIDEO accessibility WIDE meaning for the word “ACCESSIBILITY”
- 20. Moodle course • for project design and development • for course supply
- 21. a course on accessibility should be accessible Accessibility Course
- 22. 6 reasons (at least) to use Moodle 2.x for our project (but not only...) Moodle 1. File management 4. New theme and shared management: repository system accessibility and CSS code from system 2. Improved multimedia administration capabilities (plugins) 5. Conditional activities 3. Easy menu management and 6. New (TyniMCE) HTML custom menu items editor
- 23. File Picker - Shared repository system file upload Moodle Add a resource File (COURSE) USER files Google Docs license Wikimedia management (images) Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Repositories
- 24. Shared repository system Moodle Video embedding Easy video and sound embedding YouTube
- 25. std. installed multimedia plugins YouTube Moodle Vimeo .mp3 - MPEG Audio Stream, Layer III .flv - Flash video .f4v - Flash video .ogg - HTML 5 audio .acc - HTML 5 audio .webm - HTML 5 video .m4v - HTML 5 video .ogv - HTML 5 video .swf - Macromedia Flash animation File (Adobe, Inc.) Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Multimedia_plugins
- 26. Easy menu management and custom menu items Advanced Features - Appearance - Themes - Theme settings Moodle Each line consists of menu text, a link URL (optional) a tooltip title (optional), separated by pipe characters. You can specify a structure using hyphens. University of Parma|# -Unipr |http://www.unipr.it Co-lab (Digital Co-Laboratory)|# -Colab VLE|http://colab.cce.unipr.it/colab_lea --Moodle Docs|http://docs.moodle.org
- 27. New theme management: accessibility and CSS code from system Moodle Advanced Features Appearance Themes Theme name
- 28. New (TyniMCE) HTML editor Moodle Audio - Video Embedding Emoticons (must be enabled in Site Administration - Filters) Images Further documentation: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Multimedia_plugins
- 29. Conditional activities Moodle to restrict the availability of any activity according to certain conditions: • dates, • grade obtained • activity completion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnRz9RQtaMg
- 30. COURSE
- 31. SCORM LO Creativity Integration
- 33. Creativity Practical exercise: “Tag the non accessible! Moodle activity: database Users insert examples with comments and explanation
- 34. Surveys Survey areas throughout the course path • Materials (judgement) • Further requests? • Assignment evaluation • Course perception • Are you having fun? • Do you feel like a blogger?
- 35. “Story” Characters Creativity Dr Divago io divago means "I wander (from a subject)” He is a bureaucrat He becomes elated by incomprehensible speeches and texts. He believes in the "old philosophy" of institutional language
- 36. Real examples Creativity Notices put up in a board, letters sent to the company personnel from a Director
- 37. “Story” Characters Creativity Simply She believes in comprehensible language and writing. She proposes good practices and a “translation” of messages
- 38. video examples Creativity Integration
- 39. Creativity Integration videos for assignments
- 40. Virtual tutor Creativity Integration Voki is a FREE service that lets you: ➡ Create customized speaking avatars. ➡ Add your voice to your Voki avatars. ➡ Embed your Voki into any blog and website
- 41. Comics Creativity + cticious characters Integration
- 42. Creativity
- 43. Creativity Integration video creation with comics, characters images embedding
- 44. Creativity Integration video tutorials (Capture Video for subtitle creation, subtitle adding with YouTube)
- 45. COMMUNITY (of practice) Community We already created a community through community of people PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES interested in the topic and creation of during design...our INTEREST group! FORUM ? FACEBOOK GROUP? OTHER WAYS?
- 46. Digital Co-Laboratory Co-Lab contacts and channels ➡ E-mail: colab@unipr.it ➡ Twitter: CoLab_UniPR ➡ Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ colabunipr Use #colabunipr to tweet something useful for us
- 47. Thanks to • Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro - Delegate of the Rector for Distance Learning (University of Parma) • Università della Tuscia • “ASTRID” group: Alberto Ardizzone, Rosaria Candiloro, Maridea Carosella, Carmine Iacovella, Federica Scarrione, Roberto Versaggi, ... and me... :-) • “ASTRID” tutor: Angela Iaciofano • Saveria Arma, Carlo Eugeni (experts in subtitles and audio- description) • Digital Co-Lab Group
- 48. Thanks for Yr. attention! Questions? Thanks to the staff of SDU (Science Dissemination Unit) of ICTP for the invitation To contact me: Sara Valla E-mail: sara.valla@unipr.it Twitter: thuridilla Skype: saraunipr
Editor's Notes
- #2: I was asked to talk about some Moodle features... \ntoday I focus upon some new interesting features of Moodle 2.1 and a project for a course about accessibility \n
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- #4: Project results from a project work carried out inside “Master on E-Learning” at Università della Tuscia by “ASTRID group”\nCo-Lab group recently decided to “adopt” the project and work on it to propose it as a project inside University of Parma and outside to those who are interested...\n
- #5: Project results from a project work carried out inside “Master on E-Learning” at Università della Tuscia by “ASTRID group”\nCo-Lab group recently decided to “adopt” the project and work on it to propose it as a project inside University of Parma and outside to those who are interested...\n
- #6: Project results from a project work carried out inside “Master on E-Learning” at Università della Tuscia by “ASTRID group”\nCo-Lab group recently decided to “adopt” the project and work on it to propose it as a project inside University of Parma and outside to those who are interested...\n
- #7: Project results from a project work carried out inside “Master on E-Learning” at Università della Tuscia by “ASTRID group”\nCo-Lab group recently decided to “adopt” the project and work on it to propose it as a project inside University of Parma and outside to those who are interested...\n
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- #9: on the same wavelength as broadmindedness and availability to different approaches necessary for a good communication!\nPractical activities: forum, blog, database, assignment\n
- #10: on the same wavelength as broadmindedness and availability to different approaches necessary for a good communication!\nPractical activities: forum, blog, database, assignment\n
- #11: on the same wavelength as broadmindedness and availability to different approaches necessary for a good communication!\nPractical activities: forum, blog, database, assignment\n
- #12: DIffusion of all kinds of knowledge diffusion must be accessible: \nIt is true that you do not have to confuse it with usability but in our opinion accessibility can also INCLUDE usability.\nIn many countries accessibility need has led to initiatives, laws and regulations \n
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- #14: It is true that you do not have to confuse it with usability but in our opinion accessibility can also INCLUDE usability.\nIn many countries accessibility need has led to initiatives, laws and regulations \n
- #15: Our course structure reflects this wideness\n
- #16: Actually we used Google Documents in a shared way, Skype or Google chat, Webinar rooms to meet.\nThat what I meant yesterday by PLE, open space to start from and choice of tools basing upon a specific context\n
- #17: This is the challenge.\nWe tried different templates and then chose one and modified CSS code\nThis must be done in case you import the course inside other Moodle instances.\n
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- #21: Youtube and Vimeo plugins displays videos hosted on youtube and Vimeo\nswf only used in trusted texts as it has potential security issues\nLegacy installed multimedia players\nThird party or contributed multimedia plugins\n\n
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- #24: Youtube and Vimeo plugins displays videos hosted on youtube and Vimeo\nswf only used in trusted texts as it has potential security issues\nLegacy installed multimedia players\nThird party or contributed multimedia plugins\n\n
- #25: to restrict the availability of any activity according to certain conditions such as dates, grade obtained, or activity completion.\n
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- #28: We present information as examples as often as we can and then learners have to apply it to reality and supply further examples in order to assess their knowledge.\nOften it is a matter of recognizing “BAD” practices\n
- #29: We talked about examples of a proper use of activities: Moodle database activity\n
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- #31: Doctor Divago\nplay on words with Dr. Zivago\nDivago means "I wander (from a subject)"\n
- #32: Doctor Divago\nplay on words with Dr. Zivago\nDivago means "I wander (from a subject)"\n
- #33: Doctor Divago\nplay on words with Dr. Zivago\nDivago means "I wander (from a subject)"\n
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- #36: Result = Flash item... not accessible\nBUT\nalternative for static help information\n
- #37: Result = Flash item... not accessible\nBUT\nalternative for static help information\n
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- #39: to present message ambiguity\n
- #40: to present message ambiguity\n
- #41: A real community can decide itself. People will decide how to go on. \nA facilitator or a group of VERY INTERESTED PEOPLE ?\n
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