Date: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (AT) / 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (PT)
Workshop Description:
At YU & TFS, we are committed to building inclusive communities. Ensuring that students can access and meaningfully engage with their learning materials is foundational to an inclusive learning environment.
Many of our learning materials – whether assignment instructions, slide decks, or lecture and lesson notes – are created in Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint. In this workshop, we will explore simple, concrete strategies and tools to maximize the accessibility of documents and slide shows. We’ll review some of the common mistakes that contribute to inaccessible course materials, and we’ll highlight simple solutions that you can apply right away to remove barriers and increase the accessible engagement with your teaching and learning materials. While we will focus on MS Word and MS PowerPoint primarily, many of the strategies we’ll explore are transferable to other similar software, such as Google docs. Whether you’re new to document accessibility or are hoping to brush up existing skills, please join us.
Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.
