[Trainer-Talk] Student Assignment - digital interactive poster

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

The person could give instructions to a sighted reader.  One needs to ask, what is the point of the assignment.  It is probably the creative process -- not how to use tool x or tool y.

Dave



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I might be out there; but you said they use a Braillenote.... So I'm taking it this is a predominantly blind or severely low-vision student. 
Being both a AT Trainer and a legally blind student who attended college I'm prone to say; based on limited knowledge of this situation.... that this is a *NO GO*. I mean it reminds me of my high school telling me I had to take a drivers Ed class; its just stupid, and in this case ...
well stupid. I mean if they signed up for a *graphics art class* or a
*Auto-CAD* class I kind of understand that they put themselves in this position but for a run of the mill curriculum class I'd say its a accessibility/ADA issue. I'm never heard the term "digital interactive poster" but I'm assuming its a predominantly visual thing. You might as well ask a deaf student to compose some score music for a movie trailer.
Now I understand there's guys like John Bramblitt; and I've met him...
he's a great guy... who are blind and make art for a living, but he's got years of experience, process, and methodologies... So I'd say the student needs to ask for an accommodation; maybe making a audio score or something. Once again, maybe there's layers to this onion I don't understand; maybe he's in a team, maybe by poster, you mean some sort of interactive HTML5 interface with multimedia content, where timing, coding, soundeffects are needed; all of which seem more do-able... but on the face of it there's my nickels worth of insight.
-David

On 7/28/2017 9:13 AM, Princess via Trainer-Talk wrote:
> Greetings! 
> I have a student that I tutor who has been given an assignment to create a digital interactive poster based on a book they have read that is very visual, like a movie poster. In the guidelines the students are given a list of "digital tools" that may help them create their "multimedia interactive poster".  These include: Thinglink,Pictochart, CANVA, Biteslides andGlogster.  The students are also told that these programs have limited time access unless you buy them. I therefore cannot really plug into these ahead of time to check for accessibility and usability issues. On top of it all, I have never used any of these myself.  
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> Please, if you have suggestions on how I can support this student in this assignment, let me know of any programs that are readily available and accessible. Right now I can only think of power point which I know he has no hands-on experience with yet. He has a windows based computer and a braille note. He does not use either very well.  I hope to remmedy those issues but this is a summer assignment.  
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> Thanks for any and all suggestions. 
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