How do you set up online teaching courses and what service do you recommend?
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We are in in unchartered waters with this pandemic. There are very few guidelines from the state Department of Education about providing online services. The teachers at the school where I work are currently being trained in how to turn their curriculum into online courses. The school is going to use a Zoom format to create these online courses. The big concern is that students who do not have access to a computer or other form of technology are not going to have equal access. There are also big concerns about students with disabilities and how they are going to receive services such as speech services and/or counseling services.
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Matt Foran
from Simple Movement eLearning
Hi Dana - access to technology and "accessibility" are big considerations that seem to be missing in many government broad-sheet plans. I'd be happy to share some ideas; we created the world's first online literacy program for Deaf and Deafblind adults. This was (and is) a large accessibility challenge for design, interaction, services and most importantly for learner support. The great plus from this work is that the principles we learned to employ have boosted our capacity to develop meaningful solutions for 'mainstream' learners and users.
Stacy Chambers
from Rising Action Productions, LLC
A nice thing about Zoom is that the host of a videoconference can submit the recording to have captions added. Doesn't completely solve the problem, but it helps.
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