Date: Friday, March 7th, 2025
Time: 1:00-2:30pm (AT) / 12:00-1:30pm (ET) / 9:00-10:30am (PT)
Workshop Description:
At Yorkville U and 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.
Slide decks, created in PowerPoint or other similar software, have become a core means of sharing information and mediating learning in many courses and classrooms. In this session, we will explore simple, concrete strategies and tools to maximize the accessibility of slide shows. We’ll review some of the common mistakes that contribute to inaccessible course materials and highlight simple solutions that you can apply right away. While we will focus on PowerPoint, many of the strategies we’ll explore are transferable to other similar software, such as Google slides. 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.
