Back again for another week, and it's been a really busy one. This week has been the busiest in a while. I didn't get too much done this weekend. Instead I caught up on some movies and stayed in my nice air conditioned apartment a lot of the time on Saturday and Sunday.
The AU committee is still working on the video and toolkit. We met last Friday to work more on both. We have a few ideas for background music for the video, as well as a possible method for closed captioning it. We're talking about accessibility after all, so we definitely want to make the video itself accessible. I also came up with a rough template for the toolkit. We talked about a couple minor layout changes and ideas, so now it's really just organizing all of our past presentations, blog entries, and resources we've collected over the year and catigorize them. I don't want to do too much with the actual HTML piece until we figure out the actual catigories so I can make the proper navigation links. I'm really hoping to get a lot of this done this weekend.
After the nice, long, 3 day weekend the week got really busy. ON Tuesday I met with a couple library customers. One didn't need to use the assistive technology, but just needed help finding something out on the Internet. The other customer was a regular that is learning to use screen magnification software. Both went really well.
Then Wednesday I met with a new customer who was interested in Magic, to enlarge things on screen so she could surf the Internet, check E-mail, and write in MS Word. This went very well, and she'll be coming in more often to practice using the software, and maybe even learn about a couple of other programs we have available.
I also showed the assistive technology to library staff from 2 other branches who are getting some AT for their branches later this summer. It's really cool to see how use of this equipment is taking off, and even expanding to more library branches.
Finally on Wednesday, I met with a few people at Dayton's Bluff/Metro State Library to start coming up with some ideas for my work there during this summer. It sounds like we'll be updating the software that's already there, and getting some additional software to serve more people. We also talked about ideas for projects for the summer like outreach and training.
One interesting thing that came from this meeting was a possible future job prospect. The idea came up that it would be great to offer some training via a class or independent study where students could actually get credit to learn about the technology. This would be useful to students who are getting a degree related to disability and social services. It also might help people just be more interested in learning about the technology. People often come for mainly night classes and don't want to stay around the university for the rest of the time, so this might be another possibility to get people interested. I then could maybe help with the disability services office too. I'd love to see something happen with this because I really like the college and university setting, and I have lots of experience doing all of this stuff. It would just be cool to say I was a professor, even if it's at an adjunct level.
We're also getting more interest in the assistive tech computer. A few more people are calling and stopping by, and some regulars are coming back again too. I should have a couple appointments next week already.
I also finished my AT basics binder and started showing it to people. It seems to be really well received, and people at every other branch with AT wants a copy. I think it will work very well as an intro piece for the next CTEP member working here. They might not have much, if any, experience with assistive technology, so this should help get them started.
That's about all for this week. I'll hopefully get a bit more done with the toolkit this weekend. And we're having our Corps day at the capital tomorrow, so that should be interesting. I'm just hoping the next couple weeks will be as exciting as this week. I'm also looking forward to starting work at Daytons Bluff in a couple of weeks.
The AU committee is still working on the video and toolkit. We met last Friday to work more on both. We have a few ideas for background music for the video, as well as a possible method for closed captioning it. We're talking about accessibility after all, so we definitely want to make the video itself accessible. I also came up with a rough template for the toolkit. We talked about a couple minor layout changes and ideas, so now it's really just organizing all of our past presentations, blog entries, and resources we've collected over the year and catigorize them. I don't want to do too much with the actual HTML piece until we figure out the actual catigories so I can make the proper navigation links. I'm really hoping to get a lot of this done this weekend.
After the nice, long, 3 day weekend the week got really busy. ON Tuesday I met with a couple library customers. One didn't need to use the assistive technology, but just needed help finding something out on the Internet. The other customer was a regular that is learning to use screen magnification software. Both went really well.
Then Wednesday I met with a new customer who was interested in Magic, to enlarge things on screen so she could surf the Internet, check E-mail, and write in MS Word. This went very well, and she'll be coming in more often to practice using the software, and maybe even learn about a couple of other programs we have available.
I also showed the assistive technology to library staff from 2 other branches who are getting some AT for their branches later this summer. It's really cool to see how use of this equipment is taking off, and even expanding to more library branches.
Finally on Wednesday, I met with a few people at Dayton's Bluff/Metro State Library to start coming up with some ideas for my work there during this summer. It sounds like we'll be updating the software that's already there, and getting some additional software to serve more people. We also talked about ideas for projects for the summer like outreach and training.
One interesting thing that came from this meeting was a possible future job prospect. The idea came up that it would be great to offer some training via a class or independent study where students could actually get credit to learn about the technology. This would be useful to students who are getting a degree related to disability and social services. It also might help people just be more interested in learning about the technology. People often come for mainly night classes and don't want to stay around the university for the rest of the time, so this might be another possibility to get people interested. I then could maybe help with the disability services office too. I'd love to see something happen with this because I really like the college and university setting, and I have lots of experience doing all of this stuff. It would just be cool to say I was a professor, even if it's at an adjunct level.
We're also getting more interest in the assistive tech computer. A few more people are calling and stopping by, and some regulars are coming back again too. I should have a couple appointments next week already.
I also finished my AT basics binder and started showing it to people. It seems to be really well received, and people at every other branch with AT wants a copy. I think it will work very well as an intro piece for the next CTEP member working here. They might not have much, if any, experience with assistive technology, so this should help get them started.
That's about all for this week. I'll hopefully get a bit more done with the toolkit this weekend. And we're having our Corps day at the capital tomorrow, so that should be interesting. I'm just hoping the next couple weeks will be as exciting as this week. I'm also looking forward to starting work at Daytons Bluff in a couple of weeks.
posted by Jesse Anderson at 9:03 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home