This week, I watched and learned some additional information about Accessible Design for learning environments. I mainly see the videos below: https://www.coursera.org/learn/inclusive-design/home/week/2 https://www.coursera.org/learn/inclusive-design/lecture/kEDF0/describing-complex-images https://www.coursera.org/learn/inclusive-design/lecture/SouIg/resources-for-accessibility-and-universal-design The Inclusive Design course on the Coursera platform helped me review my knowledge about inclusive, especially accessible, design. In the second week, there were four videos about how to ensure our text-based materials and also powerpoin ts are accessible. In sum, the Microsoft Office platform provides a very fundamental Accessibility Checker in the Files menu. I added the following image to show how to evaluate the accessibility of Microsoft Documents. In the next step, I watched a video describing complex images and diagrams for people who have accesibility issues. In that video, I re...
That is my first reflection post, and it will be about my first week as the lecturer for the Instructional Technologies course. To begin, this is not the first time I have facilitated this course, but it is the first time I intend to 'officially' reflect on my teaching practice. I did what I always do to get ready for the first class. I read the first-week presentation I used last semester. As a result, I found some irrelevant and extra knowledge concerning the Industrial Revolution. Starting with the history of technology is usually a good idea, but digging too deep is not as appealing. As a result, I removed five pages from my presentation and created a collaborative exercise that allows my students to work together on 10-minute research activity. Unfortunately, we were unable to complete the exercise due to a lack of internet access in the lab. As a result, I did more lecturing and fewer engaging activities during the first week, which made me feel uncomfortable about the fi...