Accessibility can be huge, and it can be overwhelming if you’re just starting….Where do I start? Well, the answer is you just start wherever you can. Being partially accessible is better than not being accessible at all.” – Kevin Gumienny on getting started with accessible elearning A few days after returning to Austin from the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference in San Diego, Microassist colleagues Vivian Cullipher, content specialist, and Kevin Gumienny, senior[…]
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Send Us—and Accessible Elearning Development—to SXSW EDU 2018!
“Upvote” Our SXSW EDU 2018 Workshop: “Online Learning for Everyone! Designing for Access” Friends and partners, we have a chance to present an accessible elearning workshop at the SXSW EDU 2018 Conference and Festival next spring. It’s the SXSW-connected event in Austin for education, training, and professional development. We would very much like to present on how to make online training usable and navigable by those who have disabilities— and[…]
READ MORE about Send Us—and Accessible Elearning Development—to SXSW EDU 2018!Elearning Development Resources: Develop the Elearning Your Program Deserves
We had a great turnout during our recent webinar, Develop the Elearning Your Project Deserves—for the Training Results You Want. As promised, here are elearning development resources from the webinar, as well as a few extras. We covered a lot of ground in the presentation, so if I’ve missed any resources on any of these elearning subspecialities, please feel free to note it in the comments below. Elearning Development[…]
READ MORE about Elearning Development Resources: Develop the Elearning Your Program DeservesDevelop the Elearning Your Program Deserves—for the Training Results You Want
Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 11 am ET / 10 am CT / 8 am PT | COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR Understand the Skills You Need to Launch a Public Sector Elearning Training Initiative Whether you’re launching a new program at your agency or supporting an ongoing one…or whether your government program is directed to internal teams or an external audience… You need to know that the time invested in training will produce the results you need. Elearning[…]
READ MORE about Develop the Elearning Your Program Deserves—for the Training Results You Want2017 TxDLA Annual Conference Backchannel
The 2017 TxDLA Annual Conference held in Galveston, Texas from March 28-31, 2017. Conference Sessions focus on trends in educational technology, education innovations and best practices, research, accessibility and universal design, cybersecurity and data analytics, faculty and student support, PK-12, educational outreach, and workforce development, administration, leadership, and policy, gamification and virtualization, and more. Microassist was represented at the TxDLA 2017 Annual Conference by Senior Learning Architect Kevin Gumienny and Heather Poggi-Mannis from[…]
READ MORE about 2017 TxDLA Annual Conference BackchannelHow to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference
A week at the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in San Diego leaves the mind reeling. So much new information! So much of it related to learning! A few presentations made this connection explicit, directly correlating learning and accessibility. What I’d really like to talk about though, is the way that accessibility, the process and principle of making content available to those with disabilities, relates to elearning. Drawing from various presentations,[…]
READ MORE about How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology ConferencePrinciples and Tools from Modern Accessibility Techniques, Hiram Kuykendall’s AAUG Presentation
While emphasizing the “why” of digital accessibility, Microassist CTO and noted accessibility advocate Hiram Kuykendall also provided web and application developers over an hour’s worth of web accessibility resources and instruction during Austin Adobe User Group’s (AAUG’s) June meeting. Below, I’ll cover a bit of the overview he gave, as well as point to accessibility resources developers will find helpful as they build and test their projects. In addition to his[…]
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Microassist Senior Learning Architect, Kevin Gumienny, is presenting at the 20th Annual Training Expo 2016 in Austin, Texas as part of the track sponsored by E-Learning Council. The topics for the E-Learning Council Sponsored Track are: Reaching New Audiences through Online Training with Kevin Gumienny. How to Create Effective Learning Based Videos with Kristina Smith from Bright Giant Creative Group. E-Tools 2016: Free Apps and Shareware for Trainers with Luke[…]
READ MORE about Microassist’s Kevin Gumienny to Present at Training Expo 2016ELS2015: Training is Not the Answer (Presentation by Pelè Ugboajah, PhD)
by Jenn Brown “Training is not the answer” is a bold challenge to the learning experts and advocates at the 2015 E-Learning Symposium. Dr. Pelè Ugboajah’s approach is certainly bold. Early into the hour-long session, Ugboajah strapped on an acoustic guitar and led the crowd into singing a version of “My Girl,” replacing “My Girl” with “training.” Later on, he promised, a different version would be sung. Dr. Ugboajah is the[…]
READ MORE about ELS2015: Training is Not the Answer (Presentation by Pelè Ugboajah, PhD)The Lectora User’s Conference and my First Big Presentation – Part 9: The Big Moment
Lights in my eyes. Don’t say UM. Can they hear me OK? Is the sound on the computer working like it did in the equipment check? Stop worrying and start talking. You’re on. I said there were lights in my eyes… This picture is not from my presentation, of course. It is from the closing ceremonies, but it is the same stage, and similar lights.[…]
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