Penn State Learning Design Community Hub

FYI - The accessibility lawsuit against Target was settled out of court. A good summary is posted at

http://webaim.org/blog/target-lawsuit-settled/

To summarize the points made on the discussion board - the settlement is good news because a major corporation did face a financial consequence for poor design, but the bad news is that there was no major legal precedent set. The settlement does not admit any liability.

I'm thinking of compiling Powerpoint tips for the Teaching with Technology Hub for grad student instructors (yes PPT is old school, but so ubiquitous that it might as well be done right).

In any case I have this list so far. I was wondering if anyone had anything to add (more tips, links, presentations,...). Any information appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Hi all,

Just a reminder, the Faculty Development Survey we've been working on is now at

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Faculty_Development_Survey_Project

Please take a few minutes to look at it and makes comments or changes to it. We need to wrap this part of the process up so Vicki can start prepping the survey tool.

Has anyone worked with faculty developing their work in Flashform, the newish, rapid e-learning Flash gui that lets users dump content into a template and add in audio? I'm working on Best Practices guidelines since the final products we're seeing (created without any ID input) have been somewhat higgely-piggely...of course, the bigger issue is our attempt to change the development cycle so that we're in on this looooong before there's final output, but just wondering who's played with this a bit.

For the record, the following acceesibility feature was added in the new ANGEL banner

"A minor update was applied to ANGEL this morning during the maintenance window. The top banner now includes an “Accessible View” link to switch to text-only display. The new link is easy to locate for persons who use a screen reader."

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/angel/node/329

The new faculty development survey is is posted at the link below. If you are interested in adding comments or suggestions, please do so by the next Friday All ID Meeting (Sept 5).

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Faculty_Development_Survey_Project

If you have any questions about the content, please contact Carol McQuiggan or Vicki Williams. Elizabeth is just acting as tech support in this case ;)

Hi all,

I created a new forum specifically for discussion on PSU ID Professional Development at

http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/forum

Read the basic charge and initial post, then start adding your thoughts! Let's keep the momentum up in this area.

This forum should be used to discuss how we structure our professional development in a way that:

 Just wanted to let everyone know that we will be holding Multimedia Community group meetings on a monthly basis. Topics will include Flash, video, audio, 3D, podcasting, and basically anything related to multimedia. Our first meeting will be held on Friday, September 26th from 10-11 AM in 202K Rider Bldg. Our first topic will be on transitioning to Actionscript 3.0 for Flash users. We welcome any multimedia developers or others that may be interested in the topics.