First thoughts reflecting on accessibility
Toby Gleeson-Stack
6th January 2021
This reflection was contributed as a submission for a 2 Star Badge in Accessibility (Exploring)
Give a brief description of your work context and responsibilities, e.g. your teaching background, experience, type of organisation (e.g. FE college, ACL), subject/curriculum you teach/lead, your learners (skills level, any particular inclusion needs, age range of group, size of group)
I teach creative media level 1 at an FE college. I have a background of teaching IT and Media in FE and adult education. I have taught on a range of levels from 1 to 4. I currently teach learners who have not had the most success with mainstream education for a variety of reasons. Group size is around 20. I often have SEN and LAC students.
How will you adapt activities in your teaching context to put into practice learning from the module?
I will be looking into making sure all of my content has more than one method of information delivery.
I already use a lot of video content in my teaching and I need to ensure that these videos have subtitles and ideally a transcript as well.
Currently I use YouTube as a video hosting platform which supports subtitles but I have focused on using this service. I may consider... more
I already use a lot of video content in my teaching and I need to ensure that these videos have subtitles and ideally a transcript as well.
Currently I use YouTube as a video hosting platform which supports subtitles but I have focused on using this service. I may consider... more
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Type
Reflection
Level
Level 1
Curriculum Area
Media and communications
Keywords
Text
Video
Subtitles
Transcript
Text to Speech
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