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This PowerPoint relates Web Conferencing to Universal Design for Learning and Assistive Technology. This PowerPoint specifically deals with visual, mobility and auditory disabilities learners participation in Web Conferencing and easing the challenges through the use of Assistive Technology. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Web Conferencing and Diverse Learners


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Web Conferencing and DIVERSE LEARNERS
  • AEET 735 Spring 2011

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Web Conferencing
  • Web conferencing refers to a service that allows
    conferencing events to be shared with remote
    locations. Most vendors also provide either a
    recorded copy of an event, or a means for a
    subscriber to record an event. The service allows
    information to be shared simultaneously, across
    geographically dispersed locations in nearly
    real-time. Applications for web conferencing
    include meetings, training events, lectures, or
    short presentations from any computer. A
    participant can be either an individual person or
    a group.
  • Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_conferenc
    ing

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Quick Web Conferencing Video
Source YouTube by MeetFreely Website Address
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vVPPGge33O1Y
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What is a Diverse Learner?
  • A diverse learner is any individual that has
    differences. Differences range from factors such
    as age, gender, race, religion, culture, economic
    background, disabilities that all impact the way
    the learner experiences and views the world.

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Diverse Learner 1 Visual Disability
  • The terms partially sighted, low vision, legally
    blind, and totally blind are used in the
    educational context to describe students with
    visual impairments.

Source http//www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Specifi
c/Pages/VisualImpairment.aspx
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Diverse Learner 2 Auditory Disability
  • Hearing loss is generally described as slight,
    mild, moderate, severe, or profound, depending
    upon how well a person can hear the intensities
    or frequencies most strongly associated with
    speech.
  • There are four types of hearing loss, as follows
    (eHealthMD, n.d.) 
  • Conductive hearing losses
  • Sensorineural hearing losses
  • mixed hearing loss
  • central hearing loss

Source http//www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Specifi
c/Pages/DeafnessandHearingLoss.aspx
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Diverse Learner 3 Motor Disability
  • Motor disabilities are disabilities that effect a
    person's ability to learn motor tasks (moving and
    manipulating objects) such as walking, running,
    skipping, tying shoes, crawling, sitting,
    handwriting, and others.
  • The types of motor disabilities are as follows
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Spina bifida
  • ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
  • Arthritis
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Essential tremor
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Loss or damage of limb(s)

Source http//www.about-cerebral-palsy.org/defini
tion/motor-disability.html
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Web Conferencing Relates to Diverse Learners
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • The framework of UDL consists of instructional
    approaches that provide students with choices and
    alternatives in the materials, content, tools,
    contexts, and supports they use.
  • Three Guidelines include
  • I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation
  • II. Provide Multiple Means of Action and
    Expression
  • III. Provide Multiple Means of Engagement

Source http//www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/i
deas/tes/
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UDL and Assistive Technology (AT)
  • UDL and assistive technology rely on new media to
    improve learning access
  • Assistive Technology model assumes that a printed
    curriculum is a given and provides tools to
    support individual access to it
  • Simply means to helping students overcome
    barriers in the curriculum

Source http//www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/i
deas/tes/
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How does UDL, AT, and Web Conferencing all relate?
  • Web Conferencing needs to be accessible for all
    learner. Assistive technology can make that
    possible by providing learners with mobility,
    visual and auditory disabilities tools that will
    help the learner. Universal Design for Learning
    applies the flexibility piece of using AT in
    order to minimize barriers so that learners can
    engage in web conferencing.
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