[Accessibility_sig] Fwd: 2 Part Webcast on the Accessibility of TurningPoint interactive classroom technologies

[Sharron Rush]

>From: Jon Gunderson <jongund at UIUC.EDU>
>Subject: 2 Part Webcast on the Accessibility of TurningPoint interactive 
>classroom technologies
>
>As part of our Illinois IT Accessibility Interest group, we will be 
>hosting a two-part webcast series to learn about and understand the 
>accessibility issues with classroom "clicker" technologies.
>
>Part One
>February 22, 2007
>2 - 3 pm, Central Standard Time (Chicago Local Time)
>
>Introduction to the TurningPoint interactive PowerPoint software.  Learn 
>about what clicker technology is, how it can be used in the classroom, and 
>what are the accessibility issues of the technology.
>
>*******************
>
>Part Two
>March 1, 2007
>2 - 3 pm, Central Standard Time (Chicago Local Time)
>
>Discuss accessibility best practices for clicker technology and define the 
>features needed by people with disabilities.
>
>*******************
>
>TurningPointR transforms the standard lecture PowerPointR presentation 
>into a powerful interactive learning system that engages students in 
>active participation. Professors can display questions, surveys, opinion 
>polls and games that allow every student in the class to select a response 
>via their wireless ResponseCardR keypads ("clickers") and transmit the 
>data immediately to the presentation. Track attendance, assess student 
>learning retention, prompt student interaction, even award participation 
>points or deliver quizzes and tests via TurningPoint's student response system.
>
>Webinar login information to be announced this week.
>
>
>
>Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
>Director of IT Accessibility Services
>Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
>and
>Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
>Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)
>
>Voice: (217) 244-5870
>Fax: (217) 333-0248
>Cell: (217) 714-6313
>
>E-mail: jongund at uiuc.edu
>
>WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/
>WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/