From wiersmac at uww.edu Wed Feb 1 09:01:29 2006 From: wiersmac at uww.edu (Wiersma, Constance A) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] athen--question about student teaching Message-ID: <6A6DDE8A258FF94D86A95DC1898B909E6DD93C@facmail3.uww.edu> Greetings: I have a student who has a significant visual impairment-she is legally blind. She is planning to become a teacher with a preschool through third grade certification. She is concerned about her inability to see the children in the classroom. We are looking for some creative ways to assist her. We have used a CCTV system with an external camera to pan the room with a student in the past. We are looking at some similar technology probably using more than one camera and having screens mounted in strategic areas in the classroom. Remote access to the cameras would be helpful. She also wants to be able to find a way to participate in field trips, etc. and be able to monitor the children. Has anyone worked with such a situation? Or does anyone have any suggestions? Any and all suggestions-high tech, low tech, sharing job duties, etc. are welcome. Thank you for your help with this. I hope to see you at CSUN, where ever we find ourselves welcome to meet. Sincerely, Connie Wiersma, Assistant Director Center for Students with Disabilities University of Wisconsin-Whitewater -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pcress at ku.edu Thu Feb 2 09:35:02 2006 From: pcress at ku.edu (Pamela Cress) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] athen--question about student teaching In-Reply-To: <6A6DDE8A258FF94D86A95DC1898B909E6DD93C@facmail3.uww.edu> References: <6A6DDE8A258FF94D86A95DC1898B909E6DD93C@facmail3.uww.edu> Message-ID: <43f09903f78014606484cf4a3b21fc72@ku.edu> Connie, I posted your question on a list that includes several teachers who are blind. I received a number of replies, some of which have technology recommendations and some that have other types of suggestions. I compiled the responses in the attached Word file. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: advice for student teacher Type: application/octet-stream Size: 49664 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- Pamela Cress Research Associate University of Kansas Institute for Life Span Studies Phone: 620-421-6550, ext. 1888 E-mail: pcress@ku.edu On Feb 1, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Wiersma, Constance A wrote: > Greetings: > ? > I have a student who has a significant visual impairment?she is > legally blind.? She is planning to become a teacher with a preschool > through third grade certification.? She is concerned about her > inability to see the children in the classroom.? We are looking for > some creative ways to assist her.? We have used a CCTV system with an > external camera to pan the room with a student in the past.? We are > looking at some similar technology probably using more than one camera > and having screens mounted in strategic areas in the classroom.? > Remote access to the cameras would be helpful.? She also wants to be > able to find a way to participate in field trips, etc. and be able to > monitor the children. > ? > Has anyone worked with such a situation??? Or does anyone have any > suggestions?? Any and all suggestions?high tech, low tech, sharing job > duties, etc. are welcome.? > ? > Thank you for your help with this.? I hope to see you at CSUN, where > ever we find ourselves welcome to meet. > ? > Sincerely, > ? > Connie Wiersma, Assistant Director > Center for Students with Disabilities > University of Wisconsin-Whitewater? > _______________________________________________ > athen mailing list > athen@lists.oregonstate.edu > http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > > To unsubscribe, send a message to: > athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu > with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. > From djbrky at bu.edu Fri Feb 3 08:09:04 2006 From: djbrky at bu.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel J) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] KatiePlayer DAISY for the Mac Message-ID: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0BCF8489@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> Hello all, I am asking to speak with anyone who has successfully loaded KatiePlayer DAISY playback software onto a Mac and also upgraded it with the RFB&D software. Thanks to the iPod craze I am seeing more Macs on campus and have several Mac owners asking for alt-format. I have not owned a Mac in many years and before I botch an install and look foolish in front of my students I would like an idea of what I can expect. Thanks -- Dann ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability From ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu Mon Feb 6 13:26:52 2006 From: ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu (Stewart, Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Oregon State's It Access Policy Message-ID: Good afternoon, As many of you know Oregon State has had on ongoing policy development project going for about six years. The work was originally based on the documents that can be found on our program website at: http://tap.oregonstate.edu/standards.htm After many reinventions, redefinitions of intent, and multiple committees being formed and disbanded, and reformed again this work has finally resulted in a product. http://oregonstate.edu/accessibility/ I will also be sharing the implementation plan once it has been formally approved by the powers to be. While not the standards that I had devoted a lot of time and energy to developing, and had hoped would be adopted, this document does represent a positive step forward for OSU in regards to formally adopted guidance on IT accessibility. I look forward to your comments and constructive feedback. I will probably be writing an article or two about this adventure in the near future, it has been an interesting journey and many lessons have been learned in the process. Ron Stewart ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron Stewart, Director Technology Access Program Information Services Oregon State University 109 Kidder Hall Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Phone: 1.541.737.7307 Fax: 1.541.737.2159 E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bergerei at gse.harvard.edu Mon Feb 6 13:35:28 2006 From: bergerei at gse.harvard.edu (eileen berger) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <78E0D432A4C47B934DE7D463@larseng05-2> Dear Ron and AT colleagues, What resources, documents,etc. would you suggest I give an IT person who has no experience with Assistive Technology and sketchy knowledge of even minimal access standards for web accessibility for people with disabilities? Where would you start? There is so much out there so I want to make sure they get it the first time around. Thanks Eileen --On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:14 PM -0800 "Stewart, Ron" wrote: > > We'll you could knock me over with a feather, I just found out that CSUN > intends to charge ATHEN $400 for the use of a room for our meeting unless > we schedule a banquet dinner at a cost of around $1500. It seems that > the rumors are true, CSUN is indeed doing things differently to the > detriment of their long term partners. > > Ron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ron Stewart, Director > Technology Access Program > Information Services > Oregon State University > 109 Kidder Hall > Corvallis, Oregon 97331 > Phone: 1.541.737.7307 > Fax: 1.541.737.2159 > E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu > WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu Eileen Connell Berger Assistant Director Office of Student Affairs, Access and Disability Services Administrator Harvard University Graduate School of Education Larsen Hall G05 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, Ma. 02138 phone: 617 495 5838 fax: 617 496 8024 bergerei@gse.harvard.edu ___________________________________________________________________ This message is intended for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review copy or distribute this message. If you receive this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you. From ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu Mon Feb 6 15:10:23 2006 From: ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu (Stewart, Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Message-ID: Here is were I like to start folks, I am sure others also have ones they will share. Books: Information Access and Adaptive Technology by Coombs and Cunningham Accessibility for Everyone by Mueller Maximum Accessibility by Slatin and Rush Websites: The DOIT AccessIT Website http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php The GRADE Project at Georgia Tech http://www.catea.org/grade/ WebAIM http://webaim.org/ The Policy page of the TAP website http://tap.oregonstate.edu/policies.htm The SNOW Project http://snow.utoronto.ca/ Research on AT: The ADAPTECH Project - Dawson College http://adaptech.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ The Research page of the TAP website http://tap.oregonstate.edu/research/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: eileen berger [mailto:bergerei@gse.harvard.edu] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:35 PM To: Stewart, Ron; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: Re: [athen] Dear Ron and AT colleagues, What resources, documents,etc. would you suggest I give an IT person who has no experience with Assistive Technology and sketchy knowledge of even minimal access standards for web accessibility for people with disabilities? Where would you start? There is so much out there so I want to make sure they get it the first time around. Thanks Eileen --On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:14 PM -0800 "Stewart, Ron" wrote: > > We'll you could knock me over with a feather, I just found out that > CSUN intends to charge ATHEN $400 for the use of a room for our > meeting unless we schedule a banquet dinner at a cost of around $1500. > It seems that the rumors are true, CSUN is indeed doing things > differently to the detriment of their long term partners. > > Ron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ron Stewart, Director > Technology Access Program > Information Services > Oregon State University > 109 Kidder Hall > Corvallis, Oregon 97331 > Phone: 1.541.737.7307 > Fax: 1.541.737.2159 > E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu > WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu Eileen Connell Berger Assistant Director Office of Student Affairs, Access and Disability Services Administrator Harvard University Graduate School of Education Larsen Hall G05 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, Ma. 02138 phone: 617 495 5838 fax: 617 496 8024 bergerei@gse.harvard.edu ___________________________________________________________________ This message is intended for the designated recipient(s). It may contain confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you may not review copy or distribute this message. If you receive this in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you. From djbrky at bu.edu Tue Feb 7 07:10:42 2006 From: djbrky at bu.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel J) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Message-ID: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0BE95243@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> Here is my list of favorites: http://www.bu.edu/disability/resources/adaptive.html I also maintain lists of information and resources at the ATHEN blog site: http://athenpro.blogspot.com/ (right column) And at my personal blog: http://bloggertation.blogspot.com/ (left column) I agree with Ron's book choices and add these: Lazzaro, Joseph (2001). Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments, 2nd edition. ALA Press - 0-8389-0804-7 Rose, David H. and Meyer, Anne (2002). Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. ASCD Press - 0-87120-599-8 The manuals for every bit at Access technology at your disposal. Call me if you need any assistance - I'm just over the river :-) ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen- >bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Ron >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:10 PM >To: eileen berger; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: RE: [athen] > >Here is were I like to start folks, I am sure others also have ones they >will share. > >Books: > >Information Access and Adaptive Technology by Coombs and Cunningham >Accessibility for Everyone by Mueller >Maximum Accessibility by Slatin and Rush > >Websites: > >The DOIT AccessIT Website >http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php > >The GRADE Project at Georgia Tech >http://www.catea.org/grade/ > >WebAIM >http://webaim.org/ > >The Policy page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/policies.htm > >The SNOW Project >http://snow.utoronto.ca/ > > >Research on AT: > >The ADAPTECH Project - Dawson College >http://adaptech.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ > >The Research page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/research/index.htm > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: eileen berger [mailto:bergerei@gse.harvard.edu] >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:35 PM >To: Stewart, Ron; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: Re: [athen] > >Dear Ron and AT colleagues, >What resources, documents,etc. would you suggest I give an IT person who >has no experience with Assistive Technology and sketchy knowledge of >even minimal access standards for web accessibility for people with >disabilities? Where would you start? There is so much out there so I >want to make sure they get it the first time around. >Thanks >Eileen > > >--On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:14 PM -0800 "Stewart, Ron" > wrote: > >> >> We'll you could knock me over with a feather, I just found out that >> CSUN intends to charge ATHEN $400 for the use of a room for our >> meeting unless we schedule a banquet dinner at a cost of around $1500. > >> It seems that the rumors are true, CSUN is indeed doing things >> differently to the detriment of their long term partners. >> >> Ron >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Ron Stewart, Director >> Technology Access Program >> Information Services >> Oregon State University >> 109 Kidder Hall >> Corvallis, Oregon 97331 >> Phone: 1.541.737.7307 >> Fax: 1.541.737.2159 >> E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu >> WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu > > > >Eileen Connell Berger >Assistant Director >Office of Student Affairs, >Access and Disability Services Administrator Harvard University Graduate >School of Education Larsen Hall G05 >14 Appian Way, >Cambridge, Ma. 02138 >phone: 617 495 5838 >fax: 617 496 8024 >bergerei@gse.harvard.edu > >___________________________________________________________________ > >This message is intended for the designated recipient(s). It may contain >confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to >confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you >may not review copy or distribute this message. If you receive this in >error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. >Thank you. > >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. From ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu Tue Feb 7 08:20:43 2006 From: ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu (Stewart, Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] References: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0BE95243@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> Message-ID: The only comment I would make on Dann's list is the UD book by Rose, CAST has only recently moved into the Postsecondary arena, and this book reflects a very k-12 orientation. If you want UD materials with an adult perspective I would recommend the writings of Sally Scott, or any of the materials available from the UD program at UCONN. Ron ________________________________ From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu on behalf of Berkowitz, Daniel J Sent: Tue 2/7/2006 7:10 AM To: eileen berger; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: RE: [athen] Here is my list of favorites: http://www.bu.edu/disability/resources/adaptive.html I also maintain lists of information and resources at the ATHEN blog site: http://athenpro.blogspot.com/ (right column) And at my personal blog: http://bloggertation.blogspot.com/ (left column) I agree with Ron's book choices and add these: Lazzaro, Joseph (2001). Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments, 2nd edition. ALA Press - 0-8389-0804-7 Rose, David H. and Meyer, Anne (2002). Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. ASCD Press - 0-87120-599-8 The manuals for every bit at Access technology at your disposal. Call me if you need any assistance - I'm just over the river :-) ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen- >bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Ron >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:10 PM >To: eileen berger; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: RE: [athen] > >Here is were I like to start folks, I am sure others also have ones they >will share. > >Books: > >Information Access and Adaptive Technology by Coombs and Cunningham >Accessibility for Everyone by Mueller >Maximum Accessibility by Slatin and Rush > >Websites: > >The DOIT AccessIT Website >http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php > >The GRADE Project at Georgia Tech >http://www.catea.org/grade/ > >WebAIM >http://webaim.org/ > >The Policy page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/policies.htm > >The SNOW Project >http://snow.utoronto.ca/ > > >Research on AT: > >The ADAPTECH Project - Dawson College >http://adaptech.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ > >The Research page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/research/index.htm > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: eileen berger [mailto:bergerei@gse.harvard.edu] >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:35 PM >To: Stewart, Ron; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: Re: [athen] > >Dear Ron and AT colleagues, >What resources, documents,etc. would you suggest I give an IT person who >has no experience with Assistive Technology and sketchy knowledge of >even minimal access standards for web accessibility for people with >disabilities? Where would you start? There is so much out there so I >want to make sure they get it the first time around. >Thanks >Eileen > > >--On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:14 PM -0800 "Stewart, Ron" > wrote: > >> >> We'll you could knock me over with a feather, I just found out that >> CSUN intends to charge ATHEN $400 for the use of a room for our >> meeting unless we schedule a banquet dinner at a cost of around $1500. > >> It seems that the rumors are true, CSUN is indeed doing things >> differently to the detriment of their long term partners. >> >> Ron >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Ron Stewart, Director >> Technology Access Program >> Information Services >> Oregon State University >> 109 Kidder Hall >> Corvallis, Oregon 97331 >> Phone: 1.541.737.7307 >> Fax: 1.541.737.2159 >> E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu >> WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu > > > >Eileen Connell Berger >Assistant Director >Office of Student Affairs, >Access and Disability Services Administrator Harvard University Graduate >School of Education Larsen Hall G05 >14 Appian Way, >Cambridge, Ma. 02138 >phone: 617 495 5838 >fax: 617 496 8024 >bergerei@gse.harvard.edu > >___________________________________________________________________ > >This message is intended for the designated recipient(s). It may contain >confidential or proprietary information and may be subject to >confidentiality protections. If you are not a designated recipient, you >may not review copy or distribute this message. If you receive this in >error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. >Thank you. > >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. _______________________________________________ athen mailing list athen@lists.oregonstate.edu http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen To unsubscribe, send a message to: athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you want UD materials with an adult perspective I would recommend the writings of Sally Scott, or any of the materials available from the UD program at UCONN. Ron ________________________________ From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu on behalf of Berkowitz, Daniel J Sent: Tue 2/7/2006 7:10 AM To: eileen berger; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: RE: [athen] Here is my list of favorites: http://www.bu.edu/disability/resources/adaptive.html I also maintain lists of information and resources at the ATHEN blog site: http://athenpro.blogspot.com/ (right column) And at my personal blog: http://bloggertation.blogspot.com/ (left column) I agree with Ron's book choices and add these: Lazzaro, Joseph (2001). Adaptive Technologies for Learning and Work Environments, 2nd edition. ALA Press - 0-8389-0804-7 Rose, David H. and Meyer, Anne (2002). Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. ASCD Press - 0-87120-599-8 The manuals for every bit at Access technology at your disposal. Call me if you need any assistance - I'm just over the river :-) ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen- >bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Ron >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:10 PM >To: eileen berger; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: RE: [athen] > >Here is were I like to start folks, I am sure others also have ones they >will share. > >Books: > >Information Access and Adaptive Technology by Coombs and Cunningham >Accessibility for Everyone by Mueller >Maximum Accessibility by Slatin and Rush > >Websites: > >The DOIT AccessIT Website >http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php > >The GRADE Project at Georgia Tech >http://www.catea.org/grade/ > >WebAIM >http://webaim.org/ > >The Policy page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/policies.htm > >The SNOW Project >http://snow.utoronto.ca/ > > >Research on AT: > >The ADAPTECH Project - Dawson College >http://adaptech.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ > >The Research page of the TAP website >http://tap.oregonstate.edu/research/index.htm > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: eileen berger [mailto:bergerei@gse.harvard.edu] >Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:35 PM >To: Stewart, Ron; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: Re: [athen] > >Dear Ron and AT colleagues, >What resources, documents,etc. would you suggest I give an IT person who >has no experience with Assistive Technology and sketchy knowledge of >even minimal access standards for web accessibility for people with >disabilities? Where would you start? There is so much out there so I >want to make sure they get it the first time around. >Thanks >Eileen > > >--On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:14 PM -0800 "Stewart, Ron" > wrote: > >> >> We'll you could knock me over with a feather, I just found out that >> CSUN intends to charge ATHEN $400 for the use of a room for our >> meeting unless we schedule a banquet dinner at a cost of around $1500. > >> It seems that the rumors are true, CSUN is indeed doing things >> differently to the detriment of their long term partners. >> >> Ron >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Ron Stewart, Director >> Technology Access Program >> Information Services >> Oregon State University >> 109 Kidder Hall >> Corvallis, Oregon 97331 >> Phone: 1.541.737.7307 >> Fax: 1.541.737.2159 >> E-mail: Ron.Stewart@oregonstate.edu >> WWW: http://tap.oregonstate.edu > > > >Eileen Connell Berger >Assistant Director >Office of Student Affairs, >Access and Disability Services Administrator Harvard University Graduate >School of Education Larsen Hall G05 >14 Appian Way, >Cambridge, Ma. 02138 >phone: 617 495 5838 >fax: 617 496 8024 >bergerei@gse.harvard.edu > >___________________________________________________________________ > >This message is intended for the designated recipient(s). 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More to follow on this as well. First issue of the ejournal should be ready just prior to CSUN, it is shaping up well and I am sure you will find this to be a worthwhile resource. ATHEN Meeting at CSUN Wed March 22nd 5-6:30 PM in the Hilton San Lorenzo E Room Thanks, Ron Stewart, ATHEN Prez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gerrynies at mail.und.nodak.edu Thu Feb 16 06:21:30 2006 From: gerrynies at mail.und.nodak.edu (Gerry Nies) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] ATHEN news Message-ID: Ron Will it be possible to pay dues at CSUN? Gerry >>> "Stewart, Ron" 2/15/2006 6:21:00 PM >>> Good afternoon, Some news I need to share with you all: Based on changing times and the discussion that occurred around this topic several months ago I am merging the ADTECH and the ATHEN lists and we will be moving the list to the host for the ATHEN website. I am planning on making this happen so that the new address is effective on March 1st. You will receive an email when this has been completed. ATHEN membership renewals are due on April 1st, and I am in the process of setting up a system so that you can make your payments online if that work for you, otherwise you will need to send in a check along with the renewal. More info on this to follow shortly. ATHEN elections are coming up, we currently have a vacant treasure position but the other office positions are up for election as well. More to follow on this as well. First issue of the ejournal should be ready just prior to CSUN, it is shaping up well and I am sure you will find this to be a worthwhile resource. ATHEN Meeting at CSUN Wed March 22nd 5-6:30 PM in the Hilton San Lorenzo E Room Thanks, Ron Stewart, ATHEN Prez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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OSU is looking at the program I have built here, and bringing in an outside review team to assist in planning for its continued growth and development. I will be a full participant in these activities and have agreed to continue on in a consulting capacity with OSU if they should so desire. A second part of this will be to absorb the ADTECH-PS related activities into ATHEN, it just makes sense at this point. You will also be receiving shortly the announcement of the first issue of the ATHEN E-Journal and I would like to thank all those who have helped me in finally seeing the light of day on this effort. If you wish to contact me after I leave OSU in June my new email address will be: ron@ahead.org Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From defnick at yahoo.com Wed Feb 22 07:35:03 2006 From: defnick at yahoo.com (Nick Ogrizovich III) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web In-Reply-To: <20060221200024.333781362C4@lists.nws.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID: <20060222153504.5854.qmail@web33011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont all of a sudden. Good. Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon extensively? Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to india. (.50 /minute +) As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't need to be line level. (powered) Thanks, Nick Ogrizovich University of Vermont __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From kcahill at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 22 08:52:02 2006 From: kcahill at MIT.EDU (Kathleen Cahill) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web In-Reply-To: <20060222153504.5854.qmail@web33011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060221200024.333781362C4@lists.nws.oregonstate.edu> <20060222153504.5854.qmail@web33011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20060222113651.03069938@po12.mit.edu> Hi Nick; Check out Liberated Learning (www.liberatedlearning.com). It's based at St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia. They are using IBM Products (Via Voice among others) to convert spoken lectures to digital format and are willing to partner with other universities. I am quite concerned, along with many of you, about the accessibility of podcasts. MIT is exploring the use of iTunes to distribute files of on-campus events, both audio and video. I am quite concerned about the lack of accessibility of the audio and video to deaf/hoh people as well as concerned about the inaccessibility of iTunes itself as a program. In addition, some iTunes files are of a proprietary format (AAC) that cannot be played on other, more accessible podcasting software or players. An MIT professor, Jim Glass, is conducting research to convert audio files into digitized text via speech recognition technology and we are hoping that may prove to be a useful tool in the conversion from spoken word to digitized and searchable text. Someone also mentioned a company called Podzinger (www.podzinger.com) which uses speech recognition technology to convert podcasts to digitized format and make them searchable. I'd enjoy talking more about this issue and exchanging information with others who are also interested. Thanks, Kathy At 10:35 AM 2/22/2006, Nick Ogrizovich III wrote: >There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or >otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont >all of a sudden. Good. > >Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. >Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing >students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried >running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized >anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon >extensively? > >Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an >interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be >looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to >india. (.50 /minute +) > >As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a >difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do >not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) >no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that >still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to >use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) > >It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap >digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav >files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a >high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. > >Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the >concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one >way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a >portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't >need to be line level. (powered) > >Thanks, > >Nick Ogrizovich >University of Vermont > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. Kathleen Cahill MIT ATIC (Adaptive Technology) Lab 77 Mass. Ave. 7-143 Cambridge MA 02139 (617) 253-5111 kcahill@mit.edu From djbrky at bu.edu Wed Feb 22 09:04:58 2006 From: djbrky at bu.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel J) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web Message-ID: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0C33FDF3@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> Though the audio of the podcast may be an issue - we are seeing companies sprout up around the web that will do provide transcripts for a nominal fee. It is simply a matter of providing multiple formats for users to access. An excellent (and simple) example of how this can work and how it may look is the Security Now! Podcast site: http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm BTW - I highly recommend this podcast for us professionals. ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen- >bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Kathleen Cahill >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:52 AM >To: Nick Ogrizovich III; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: Re: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web > >Hi Nick; > >Check out Liberated Learning (www.liberatedlearning.com). It's based at >St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia. They are using IBM Products (Via >Voice among others) to convert spoken lectures to digital format and are >willing to partner with other universities. > >I am quite concerned, along with many of you, about the accessibility of >podcasts. MIT is exploring the use of iTunes to distribute files of >on-campus events, both audio and video. I am quite concerned about the >lack of accessibility of the audio and video to deaf/hoh people as well as >concerned about the inaccessibility of iTunes itself as a program. In >addition, some iTunes files are of a proprietary format (AAC) that cannot >be played on other, more accessible podcasting software or players. > >An MIT professor, Jim Glass, is conducting research to convert audio files >into digitized text via speech recognition technology and we are hoping >that may prove to be a useful tool in the conversion from spoken word to >digitized and searchable text. Someone also mentioned a company called >Podzinger (www.podzinger.com) which uses speech recognition technology to >convert podcasts to digitized format and make them searchable. > >I'd enjoy talking more about this issue and exchanging information with >others who are also interested. > >Thanks, >Kathy > > > >At 10:35 AM 2/22/2006, Nick Ogrizovich III wrote: >>There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or >>otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont >>all of a sudden. Good. >> >>Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. >>Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing >>students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried >>running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized >>anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon >>extensively? >> >>Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an >>interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be >>looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to >>india. (.50 /minute +) >> >>As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a >>difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do >>not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) >>no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that >>still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to >>use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) >> >>It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap >>digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav >>files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a >>high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. >> >>Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the >>concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one >>way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a >>portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't >>need to be line level. (powered) >> >>Thanks, >> >>Nick Ogrizovich >>University of Vermont >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >>_______________________________________________ >>athen mailing list >>athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >>http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen >> >>To unsubscribe, send a message to: >>athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >>with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. > >Kathleen Cahill >MIT ATIC (Adaptive Technology) Lab >77 Mass. Ave. 7-143 >Cambridge MA 02139 >(617) 253-5111 >kcahill@mit.edu > >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. From Howard.Kramer at colorado.edu Wed Feb 22 10:56:21 2006 From: Howard.Kramer at colorado.edu (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] transportation for injured Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060222115403.03024cf8@buffmail.colorado.edu> [Hello All - I am trying to gather information on transportation for injured students on big X or big XII campuses. If any of you are fit these two categories, please consider responding to the short survey below. Thanks in advance. - Howard] Dear Colleague: CU is investigating the provision of transportation for temporarily injured and mobility impaired students on our campus. As part of this process, we are surveying the services available on other campuses for this population, particularly among Big X & Big XII schools. If you could answer the short list of questions below and return it via a reply to this e-mail, it would be greatly appreciated. I will be glad to share my results. The survey can be found below. Thank you, Howard Kramer 1) Name of institution: 2) # of students on campus: 3) Density/Layout on campus (i.e. narrow walkways, high density; spacious walkways, non dense): 4) Type of vehicle(s) used (cart, van, other-specify): 5) Managed & funded by: 6) Is vehicle wheelchair accessible? 7) Restrictions/requirements for use? 8) Fee charged to students, if any: 9) Other comments: 10) May we contact you for more information? If so, please provide your telephone number: Howard Kramer Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator AT Conference Coordinator Disability Services CU-Boulder, 107 UCB Boulder, Co 80309 303-492-8672 From pratikp1 at lycos.com Wed Feb 22 11:12:32 2006 From: pratikp1 at lycos.com (Pratik Patel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20060222113651.03069938@po12.mit.edu> Message-ID: <000501c637e3$ee831630$232a0495@LENOVO1C5CE3C3> I took a trip out to Halifax to see the Liberated Learning concept in action some time ago. The technology is promising but the cost is quite high. These were costs associated with licensing the software and support. The local equipment costs are separate. SecurityNow podcast site is an excellent example of what can be done with very little cost for lectures/events. I echo Dan's recommendation regarding the podcast and add my own suggestion that we also listen to the "this week in tech" podcast. While more amusing than informative, this podcast does have some excellent analysis. Please let me know if I can provide further information. Pratik Pratik Patel Director, CUNY Assistive Technology Services (CATS) The City University of New York T: 718-997-3775 F: 718-997-5895 E: pratik.patel@qc.cuny.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Kathleen Cahill Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:52 AM To: Nick Ogrizovich III; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: Re: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web Hi Nick; Check out Liberated Learning (www.liberatedlearning.com). It's based at St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia. They are using IBM Products (Via Voice among others) to convert spoken lectures to digital format and are willing to partner with other universities. I am quite concerned, along with many of you, about the accessibility of podcasts. MIT is exploring the use of iTunes to distribute files of on-campus events, both audio and video. I am quite concerned about the lack of accessibility of the audio and video to deaf/hoh people as well as concerned about the inaccessibility of iTunes itself as a program. In addition, some iTunes files are of a proprietary format (AAC) that cannot be played on other, more accessible podcasting software or players. An MIT professor, Jim Glass, is conducting research to convert audio files into digitized text via speech recognition technology and we are hoping that may prove to be a useful tool in the conversion from spoken word to digitized and searchable text. Someone also mentioned a company called Podzinger (www.podzinger.com) which uses speech recognition technology to convert podcasts to digitized format and make them searchable. I'd enjoy talking more about this issue and exchanging information with others who are also interested. Thanks, Kathy At 10:35 AM 2/22/2006, Nick Ogrizovich III wrote: >There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or >otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont >all of a sudden. Good. > >Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. >Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing >students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried >running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized >anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon >extensively? > >Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an >interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be >looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to >india. (.50 /minute +) > >As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a >difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do >not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) >no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that >still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to >use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) > >It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap >digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav >files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a >high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. > >Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the >concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one >way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a >portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't >need to be line level. (powered) > >Thanks, > >Nick Ogrizovich >University of Vermont > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. Kathleen Cahill MIT ATIC (Adaptive Technology) Lab 77 Mass. Ave. 7-143 Cambridge MA 02139 (617) 253-5111 kcahill@mit.edu _______________________________________________ athen mailing list athen@lists.oregonstate.edu http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen To unsubscribe, send a message to: athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. From djbrky at bu.edu Wed Feb 22 12:15:22 2006 From: djbrky at bu.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel J) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web Message-ID: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0C34009C@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> The TWiT Army Rocks!! http://thisweekintech.com/ Anyone else out there a fan of BBC-4's "The IT Crowd"? http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/ ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen- >bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Pratik Patel >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:13 PM >To: 'Kathleen Cahill'; 'Nick Ogrizovich III'; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: RE: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web > >I took a trip out to Halifax to see the Liberated Learning concept in >action >some time ago. The technology is promising but the cost is quite high. >These were costs associated with licensing the software and support. The >local equipment costs are separate. > >SecurityNow podcast site is an excellent example of what can be done with >very little cost for lectures/events. > >I echo Dan's recommendation regarding the podcast and add my own suggestion >that we also listen to the "this week in tech" podcast. While more amusing >than informative, this podcast does have some excellent analysis. > >Please let me know if I can provide further information. > > >Pratik > >Pratik Patel >Director, CUNY Assistive Technology Services (CATS) >The City University of New York >T: 718-997-3775 >F: 718-997-5895 >E: pratik.patel@qc.cuny.edu > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu >[mailto:athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Kathleen Cahill >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:52 AM >To: Nick Ogrizovich III; athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >Subject: Re: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web > >Hi Nick; > >Check out Liberated Learning (www.liberatedlearning.com). It's based at >St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia. They are using IBM Products (Via >Voice among others) to convert spoken lectures to digital format and are >willing to partner with other universities. > >I am quite concerned, along with many of you, about the accessibility of >podcasts. MIT is exploring the use of iTunes to distribute files of >on-campus events, both audio and video. I am quite concerned about the >lack of accessibility of the audio and video to deaf/hoh people as well as >concerned about the inaccessibility of iTunes itself as a program. In >addition, some iTunes files are of a proprietary format (AAC) that cannot >be played on other, more accessible podcasting software or players. > >An MIT professor, Jim Glass, is conducting research to convert audio files >into digitized text via speech recognition technology and we are hoping >that may prove to be a useful tool in the conversion from spoken word to >digitized and searchable text. Someone also mentioned a company called >Podzinger (www.podzinger.com) which uses speech recognition technology to >convert podcasts to digitized format and make them searchable. > >I'd enjoy talking more about this issue and exchanging information with >others who are also interested. > >Thanks, >Kathy > > > >At 10:35 AM 2/22/2006, Nick Ogrizovich III wrote: >>There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or >>otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont >>all of a sudden. Good. >> >>Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. >>Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing >>students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried >>running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized >>anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon >>extensively? >> >>Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an >>interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be >>looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to >>india. (.50 /minute +) >> >>As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a >>difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do >>not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) >>no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that >>still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to >>use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) >> >>It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap >>digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav >>files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a >>high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. >> >>Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the >>concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one >>way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a >>portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't >>need to be line level. (powered) >> >>Thanks, >> >>Nick Ogrizovich >>University of Vermont >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>http://mail.yahoo.com >>_______________________________________________ >>athen mailing list >>athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >>http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen >> >>To unsubscribe, send a message to: >>athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >>with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. > >Kathleen Cahill >MIT ATIC (Adaptive Technology) Lab >77 Mass. Ave. 7-143 >Cambridge MA 02139 >(617) 253-5111 >kcahill@mit.edu > >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. > > > >_______________________________________________ >athen mailing list >athen@lists.oregonstate.edu >http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen > >To unsubscribe, send a message to: >athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. From schwarte at purdue.edu Wed Feb 22 13:07:32 2006 From: schwarte at purdue.edu (Schwarte, David M.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web Message-ID: <605A50212ECBCE4ABD0FC7B069262852138B31@EXCH03.purdue.lcl> Purdue started offering podcasting as a service to instructors last fall. Several of our lecture rooms have the ability to record from the PA system. The system was actually put in in the 1970s and recorded lectures on cassette tapes that could be checked out from the library. Podcasting MP3s was just in improvement in distribution method from that perspective. I mentioned the issue you have brought up to the folks in charge of our "Boilercast" podcasting system last fall when I discovered that it had been rolled out. The agreement we eventually came to was that we would provide transcripts to any student who requested them from the DSS office. We would just have to hire someone to transcribe the materials if requested. Last fall I also became the Purdue project manager for the Liberated Learning Initiative. We are also utilizing the Boilercast network to acquire the audio to do voice recognition. We are able to just have one desktop computer with the ViaScribe voice recognition software. This allowed us to shift responsibility for the microphones and recording equipment to the group that takes care of the lecture rooms. We are also using an experimental process for creating user voice profiles. We create a transcript from an audio file, the files are synchronized, and run through the system to create and improve the user profile. The concept from the professor end is really nifty since he/she just has to show up and give the lecture while wearing a microphone. We do all of the tedious voice recognition, transcript correction, and user profile creation later with no instructor involvement. We are still in the very early stages of this project. I do not have data to show that voice recognition would save much time/money over having someone hand transcribe the audio files. We are still getting lots of transcription errors that need to be corrected and we are still attempting to figure out how to most efficiently correct the transcriptions and create the user profiles. I hoe to have some firm numbers by this summer. David Schwarte -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Ogrizovich III Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:35 AM To: athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: [athen] recording lectures via mp3 players for use on web There's a lot of interest from professors wishing to podcast, or otherwise post mp3 versions of their lectures on the web in Vermont all of a sudden. Good. Being the Universal Design proponent I am, I want to encourage this. Of course, this approach totally leaves the deaf/hard of hearing students out of the loop. I am curious if anyone has ever tried running a sound file through dragon, to see if it recognized anything? What if the speech file was from someone who trained dragon extensively? Some profs may even be willing to train dragon, and this would be an interesting way to get transcripts right away. Otherwise, we would be looking at using students to transcibe, or possibly send the files to india. (.50 /minute +) As for the technology side of it, it seems ipods in general are a difficult way to do this. The newest ipods (5th gen) apparently do not even have a line in, so many of the mics (griffin, belkin, etc) no longer work. I looked up creative, and they have a few models that still have a line in, but to use a mic with that, you would have to use a powered mic. (Profs prefer a lapel mike.) It seems the easiest way to do this would be to buy a really cheap digital voice recorder, lapel mic, and then convert the wma or wav files to mp3, and then post those. You would have the benefit of a high quality sound to use for dragon attempts, too. Anyone else ever come across this yet? I've heard from MIT the concerns for the Deaf, but I'm hopeful that this will be remedied one way or another. I'm curious what others have done. Or if there's a portable mp3 player out there with a bonafide mic in that doesn't need to be line level. (powered) Thanks, Nick Ogrizovich University of Vermont __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ athen mailing list athen@lists.oregonstate.edu http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen To unsubscribe, send a message to: athen-request@lists.oregonstate.edu with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. From ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu Fri Feb 24 08:04:35 2006 From: ron.stewart at oregonstate.edu (Stewart, Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Product reviewers Message-ID: Good morning, Robert Beach has agreed to lead an evaluation project that is going to take a look at the current DAISY products, the first round will be looking at readers. We are wanting to make this as comprehensive an evaluation as possible and Robert has asked that we develop a team of four individuals to do the reviews. We need folks to step forward who have the following, and would be willing to participate in the process: Person who is Blind Person with low vision Person with a learning/cognitive print disability Person with a mobility disability that requires e-books It would also help to know what Daisy tools you currently have access to, so we can reduce the number of products we will need to purchase. Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From djbrky at bu.edu Fri Feb 24 09:55:05 2006 From: djbrky at bu.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel J) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Product reviewers Message-ID: <8E929D499290744FA1BAFB2A63F3128B0C3D1F9D@XMS.ad2.bu.edu> Count Boston University in on all four categories - or pick one for me. For playback we use EaseReader mostly but also have access to (and are experimenting with) CAST eReader, KatiePlayer, and eClipse Reader. I am in the process of getting a loaner laptop from our Mac Rep so that I can learn about access on the Mac firsthand. We also have playback hardware in the form of Victor Reader Classic, Victor Vibe, and Telex Scholar. I have a couple of blind students that use personal devices for reading their DAISY books and can get that information easily. For production we use Dolphin EasePublisher and Dolphin EaseProducer. We have a copy of eClipse writer but have not done much with it. ========================= Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director Boston University Office of Disability Services 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 (617) 353-3658 (office) (617) 353-9646 (fax) djbrky@bu.edu (eMail) www.bu.edu/disability ________________________________ From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Ron Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:05 AM To: athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: [athen] Product reviewers Good morning, Robert Beach has agreed to lead an evaluation project that is going to take a look at the current DAISY products, the first round will be looking at readers. We are wanting to make this as comprehensive an evaluation as possible and Robert has asked that we develop a team of four individuals to do the reviews. We need folks to step forward who have the following, and would be willing to participate in the process: Person who is Blind Person with low vision Person with a learning/cognitive print disability Person with a mobility disability that requires e-books It would also help to know what Daisy tools you currently have access to, so we can reduce the number of products we will need to purchase. Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Howard.Kramer at colorado.edu Fri Feb 24 11:47:15 2006 From: Howard.Kramer at colorado.edu (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Speaker RFP - Accessing Higher Ground 2006 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20060224124519.02d343a0@buffmail.colorado.edu> Dear fellow ATHEN members, I hope you will consider submitting a proposal for this year's AHG conference. Request for Proposals Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web & Technology Conference November 7-10, 2006 Millennium Hotel - Boulder, Colorado Keynote Speaker: Kevin Kling Humorist & Playwright The University of Colorado at Boulder invites speaker proposals for its 9th annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference. The conference, which takes place adjacent to the Boulder campus, focuses on the implementation and benefits of Assistive Technology and Accessible Media in the university and college setting. Other topic areas cover legal and policy issues, including ADA and 508 compliance. The creation of accessible media and information resources, including Web pages and library resources are a particular focus of the conference. For the main conference, accepted out-of-town speakers will receive a 20% discount off conference registration fees. Local speakers will receive a 10% discount. Additional incentives are provided for accepted pre-conference proposals. For more information, use the contact information below. To see a list of past workshops, visit our conference Web page. A presenter application form is also available at the conference Web site. Please mail, fax or e-mail the completed application to Disability Services at CU-Boulder by March 16. Contact Information Disability Services: 303-492-8671 (v/tty) e-mail: hkramer@colorado.edu Conference URL: http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference Howard Kramer Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator AT Conference Coordinator Disability Services CU-Boulder, 107 UCB Boulder, Co 80309 303-492-8672 From pratikp1 at lycos.com Fri Feb 24 12:47:36 2006 From: pratikp1 at lycos.com (Pratik Patel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:28:00 2018 Subject: [athen] Product reviewers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <014401c63983$8b42fd00$232a0495@LENOVO1C5CE3C3> Hello, Count me in as well. In terms of DAISY products, I have access to the following: Victor Reader (soft) APH Book Wizzard Victor Reader Classic pro Victor Wibe Plextalk PTR1 BookPort Dolphin Producer EaseReader I get get hold of freeware products as well. I can try to evaluate both on PC and MAC. Pratik Pratik Patel Director, CUNY Assistive Technology Services (CATS) The City University of New York T: 718-997-3775 F: 718-997-5895 E: pratik.patel@qc.cuny.edu _____ From: athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu [mailto:athen-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Ron Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:05 AM To: athen@lists.oregonstate.edu Subject: [athen] Product reviewers Good morning, Robert Beach has agreed to lead an evaluation project that is going to take a look at the current DAISY products, the first round will be looking at readers. We are wanting to make this as comprehensive an evaluation as possible and Robert has asked that we develop a team of four individuals to do the reviews. We need folks to step forward who have the following, and would be willing to participate in the process: Person who is Blind Person with low vision Person with a learning/cognitive print disability Person with a mobility disability that requires e-books It would also help to know what Daisy tools you currently have access to, so we can reduce the number of products we will need to purchase. Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: