I actually put what I learnt into practice outside of my teaching practice.

I work in the Police training branch and due to COVID-19 most of the training courses were put on hold.

I was moved to work within a team to produce wellbeing service for the organisation.

I was faced with the challenge of creating and sending wellbeing information across... more

I actually put what I learnt into practice outside of my teaching practice.

I work in the Police training branch and due to COVID-19 most of the training courses were put on hold.

I was moved to work within a team to produce wellbeing service for the organisation.

I was faced with the challenge of creating and sending wellbeing information across to everyone. However, not everyone has access to work computer or mobile at home, especially when isolated.

I considered the concept of BYOD's from this course and thought about sending wellbeing information across to staff's own mobile phone and-mail addresses.

I created a PDF document which contained all the wellbeing information, the reason for this is that it can be opened by any device, again I learnt this from this course. I also found the PDF had a screen reader which makes it even more accessible. I also found the optional setting for bookmarks which made navigating to different sections of document easy.

I laid out the content of the PDF so that it was readable for someone who may have dyslexia. I used Arial size 12 font, 1.5 line spacing and a pale yellow background.

From this course I learnt the classification of disability and learning difficulties can be identified as physical, sensory, cognitive and neurodiversity and that each type which have a preference to types of media, such as; text, images, audio, video and interactivity. The least effective is text in all disability types. When I created the PDF I thought about the wellbeing resources provided within it and I ensured it had a variety of resources especially as not every prefers text. So for example for physical wellbeing I included reading resources, mobile apps, videos and podcasts.

The PDF document has been successfully sent out to first group of staff members and received much positive feedback.

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