<div dir="ltr">It's great that the instructor sees the value and applicabliity here. It sounds like there will be a valuable discussion around accessibility in the class. Good to know that it's played out this way so far - thanks for the follow-up. More people talking more about accessibility...<div><br></div><div>It's a start.</div><div><br></div><div>scott <br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Nazely Kurkjian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kurkjian@binghamton.edu" target="_blank">kurkjian@binghamton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">After speaking with the professor, it is clear that accessibility is an important aspect of her course. To work around possible VoiceThread challenges, she's going to create a YouTube channel and the students will post and caption their videos in YouTube. I thought, the easiest and quickest way for them to caption will be with YouTube's subtitle editor. I will provide them best practices and directions/video tutorials for captioning in YouTube. Since it is a Managing Information & Technology class in a Public Administration degree program, the professor thought it would be valuable for them to learn YouTube's platform too. For VoiceThread, there will be video, audio or text sent directly to the professor only. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">After the new year, I plan on exploring more options with VoiceThread, like the integration options for captioning. If there's a way to upload a video to VoiceThread, not publish it to the class right away (e.g., professor controls when it is published), (professor) click a button to send it to the captioning vendor, and THEN publish it, that's the ideal situation in my mind. It may be a little more work for the professor, but if this is a possibility, they can use VoiceThread how she originally intended. If this is not an option, I really hope VoiceThread makes it one in the future!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If anyone's celebrating, have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Nazely</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Nazely Kurkjian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kurkjian@binghamton.edu" target="_blank">kurkjian@binghamton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thank you all very much for your suggestions. This is extremely helpful! I am meeting with the professor later this afternoon and will let you all know how we move forward.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Another solution I thought of is providing the student on demand remote interpreting. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Another thing I'm curious about - if the student who is deaf wants to provide a video response and she signs, do we (DS) translate/convert this information? I ask because, if this student wants to do a video response she absolutely should, but if she does it and she has to provide the translated information (because no one else knows ASL) then couldn't we suggest that because she has to do it everyone else in the class should? Sorry if this is a silly question, I just haven't been in a situation where sign needs to be translated the other way. I think Scott brings up a wonderful point and I'd like to bring this up to the professor. Although student submissions are not typically required to be accessible (by students), this may be a great opportunity for them to consider accessibility barriers in technology and think about ways to provide access - especially because these are students in a masters in public administration program. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I'll post back soon~</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Scott Marshall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marsh058@umn.edu" target="_blank">marsh058@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here's a slightly different take on the question...<div><br></div><div>It's a huge learning moment - particularly for a class about managing info and tech. I wonder if the instructor would be willing to raise the accessibility question with the class? To wrestle with the trade-offs involved between "quick, easy, inaccessible " and "accessible to the whole community". I obviously don't know ANYthing about the course (Is it super technical or is it at least particularly taught though a "management" lens? And does it even matter?) but it seems to me to be an amazing opportunity to frame the issue in terms of values. </div><div><br></div><div>It might be uncomfortable but that shouldn't prevent the discussion. The only way we're going to improve digital accessibility on our campuses is by making more people aware of it by raising it every chance we get. And I believe that accessibility will become "the way we do things around here" - it's just a matter of time. For an instructor preparing students for the future, it seems like a worthwhile conversation to have.</div><div><br></div><div>scott </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Brent Whiting <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwhiting@temple.edu" target="_blank">bwhiting@temple.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Deaf student in course using VoiceThread<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The student knows ASL, but what I'm concerned about is how we're going to make the<i> other
</i>students responses accessible in a timely and equitable manner. I don't believe any of the other students know ASL, and if they choose to create video or audio discussion, I'm not sure how to go about providing access. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="https://voicethread.com/howto/closed-captioning/" target="_blank">add captions to VoiceThread files</a>, but is this something we should ask the students (in the class) to provide or should our office provide it as soon as possible after something has been posted?
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