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Accessing Higher Ground Virtual Conference starting tomorrow
Just a friendly reminder, with a full schedule following: tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18, through Friday, November 20, the Accessing Higher Ground virtual conference will be featured at St. Cloud State University. Brought to you by the Academic Technologies Team, the different sessions (webcasts) will be shown in Miller Center conference rooms 114 and 115.
Pass this along to whomever you think is interested. Accessibility in learning is one of the major themes of today’s higher education. We are happy to have this opportunity right here on our campus.
Finally, the recordings of these sessions will be available after the conference, and we will notify you how to get those.
Virtual Conference Schedule – Live Stream
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, Track “A” Sessions Miller Center Room 114
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Alt Text Production: Providing More Effective Services and Promoting Student Self-Reliance, Jenna Atkinson, Utah Valley University |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | How to Write a Good Description for Visual Elements, Gaeir Dietrich, HTCTU, Robert Beach, Kansas City Kansas Community College |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Faculty Outreach – Spreading the Gospel of Alternate Format to the Faculty Front Lines, Susan Kelmer, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Getting from Barrier-Free to Great User Experiences?, Whitney Quesenbery, UX Researcher & Director of Center for Civic Design |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | School of Social Work and Disability Resources: Working to Make Documents Distributed through LMS Accessible, Krista Greear, Univeristy of Washington |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Designing a Mobile Ready Course with Universal Design, Kate Miller, UC Denver |
Wednesday, November 18, 2015, Track “B” Sessions Miller Center Room 115
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | What did I sign up for? Technology Accessibility for New Professionals, Steven Salter, Ashford University |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | What works with faculty? Results from a yearlong faculty-to-faculty accessible instructional materials workshop, Scott Kupferman, University of Colorado |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | The Challenges of Emerging Technology in Online Education: Tips and Tools for Ensuing Accessibility in the Online Environment, Steven Salter, Ashford University |
| 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Getting from Barrier-Free to Great User Experiences?, Whitney Quesenbery, UX Researcher & Director of Center for Civic Design |
| 3:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | When the Federal Government Comes Knocking on Your Virtual Door– What to Expect in an ADA or 504 Technology Review, Mary Lou Mobley, U.S. Dept. of Education (double-session) |
Thursday, November 19, 2015, Track “A” Sessions Miller Center Room 114
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Managing Accessibility in Online Education: WKU Processes and Practices, Anne Honaker, Western Kentucky University |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Creating faculty buy-in for accessibility, Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, CSU Channel Islands |
| 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Plenary Panel: Technology Accessibility in Higher Education — The Student PerspectiveA panel of students with disabilities from across the United States share their challenges, solutions, success stories, and ideas. |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | UDOIT – Instructure Canvas Course Accessibility Checker, Nancy Swenson, UCF |
Thursday, November 19, 2015, Track “B” Sessions Miller Center Room 117
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introducing the Center for Accessible Materials Innovation: A First In The World Project, Robert Martinengo, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Building Accessibility Auditing into Course Development, Kara Zirkle, George Mason University |
| 1:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Plenary Panel: Technology Accessibility in Higher Education — The Student PerspectiveA panel of students with disabilities from across the United States share their challenges, solutions, success stories, and ideas. |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | New Developments in Image and Math Content Accessibility 2.0, Sue-Ann Ma, Benetech |
Friday, November 20, 2015, Track “A” Sessions Miller Center Room 114
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | E-Learning Accessibility: What Does an Instructor Need to Know?, Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington |
| 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | When the DoJ/OCR makes a visit: Campus leaders discuss lessons learned in resolving complaints about inaccessible IT, Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington (double-session) |
| 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Fostering a Course Accessibility Community of Practice, Matt Dingo, Ohio University |
Friday, November 20, 2015, Track “B” Sessions Miller Center Room 115
| Time | Session Information |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Motivating Accessibility Adoption on Campus, Janet Sedgley, University of Montana |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Taking on the elephant in the room: Implementing innovative procurement processes in a large University system, Tom Siechert, California State University, Fresno |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Getting Mainstream Publishers onto the Accessibility Bandwagon: Why STEM & commercial publishers avoid accessibility, Bevi Chagnon, PubCom — The Publishing Communications Group |
| 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Creating Audio-Tactiles on the Fly, Alexa Schriempf, Penn State University |
