Accessibility and Usability in Cengage Learning Educational Materials
WCAG: As of March 2010, Cengage Learning policies require all new website development to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA, as recommended by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Following these guidelines, Cengage Learning content is accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited mobility, photosensitivity and many others. Audio-Visual Materials: For many years, Cengage Learning-produced videos have included closed-captioning. Since August 2009, audio-visual materials used in Cengage Learning products are required to be close-captioned with accompanying transcripts.
10 New Social Media Templates to Save You Even More Time With Your Marketing
Believe it or not, but managing a personal or official social media profile is time sucking. Thanks to social media templates for saving our valuable time. It also protects the efforts that we put in for marketing purposes.
Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers
Google Search Google Search is at the heart of it all. It’s where many of us go multiple times a day to locate information. Google provides excellent resources for teachers and students to become effective searchers and build essential digital literacy skills for finding quality, credible resources on the web.
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Turning Mistakes Into Learning Opportunities by TeachThought Staff Today, if you asked me about my most memorable learning failures, I will tell you I am glad they happened.
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Prerequisite assignments are assignments that must be taken in a required order. Each assignment must be completed before the next assignment can be taken.These assignments will be indicated in the assignment list on your Section Home page (A). When you click on the indicated assignment, a window will open showing you all of the prerequisite assignments associated with that assignment. You must take the first assignment in the list (A) and complete it with the required score (B) before you can move on to the next assignment.Some prerequisite assignments are grouped in clusters (C). These can be taken in any order, but they must be fully completed before you can move on to the next assignment.Click OK to proceed (D).When you complete a required assignment, the next assignment will become available in your assignment list.
Creating Your Digital Social Work Tool Box (or Social Work Tool Kit)
Get excited The Need For Practicality Sometimes, we as social workers have very good interventions that are sitting in our notepads, filing cabinets, or books we have purchased. Sometimes they are on other peoples’ blogs.
Google Sites for Teacher Web Pages and Student Projects - Flipped Events
Introduction to Google Sites 1. Create a Google Site or in your Google Apps account. 2. Decide on a topic for the site.
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by Terry Heick Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, or the student credibility of a BYOD program.
Using YouTube with a screen reader - YouTube Help
Introduction This following information will be helpful for people using screen readers as it explains the steps for using YouTube with screen readers. A screen reader is a software application that identifies and interprets what is being displayed on the computer screen. This information is then presented to a blind user as speech. Visually impaired or blind people use screen readers.
Pause Before Posting — Using Social Media Responsibly
January/February 2011 Issue Pause Before Posting — Using Social Media Responsibly By Matthew Robb, MSW, LCSW-C Social Work Today Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 8 Social workers using social media such as blogs, Facebook, message boards, or Twitter must think carefully about how their postings could affect their clients and their careers. On issues ranging from domestic violence and homophobia to racism and the insidious disease of breast cancer, a young MSW social worker blogs incisively about the African American experience. Her commentary is powerful, her passion palpable and persuasive.
Supercharge students' digital literacy skills with content curation
While simple collecting is additive, curation is subtractive — what is left out is almost more important than what is included. A great way to think about collection and curation is described by Frank Chimero (2011). Consider collection as a bowl of loose pearls, and curation as a pearl necklace. The individual pearls in the bowl may be of great value, but they are pretty useless when they are just gathered together. Curation is what happens when particular pearls are selected from the bowl and strung, in a particular order, into a beautiful necklace. The necklace has fewer pearls than the bowl but, as it can be publicly admired and worn, it may be considered to have more worth.
Vocabulary Practice: Improv + Vocabulary = Kinesthetic Vocab Vim!
I had grand aspirations of becoming an integral member of my college’s improv comedy troup[1] but I just cannot be funny so spontaneously and so continually. However, in the midst of tryouts, I learned a truly amazing warm-up that I adapted for vocabulary learning. Chaos and laughter will ensue if you try this kinesthetic exercise, and I guarantee that students will learn at least two vocabulary words fully –and upwards of 15 words in about 10-15 minutes of play. I hope you can get the last laugh!
Accessibility in Microsoft Office 2010
Create accessible Office files so individuals with disabilities can read and use your files. Learn how to create accessible Word documents by adding alternative text to images and objects, organizing content to be easily read by screen readers, including captions for audio and video files, and more. Also, learn about creating accessible Excel files including alternative text for images and objects and how to specify table headers. Check documents for accessibility With the click of a button in Word 2010, Excel 2010, and PowerPoint 2010 you can scan a document, spreadsheet, or presentation to identify areas that may be problematic for users with disabilities to view or use. The feature, called "Accessibility Checker," helps you create more accessible content by highlighting and explaining accessibility issues, so they can be fixed before the content is finalized.
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