Cal Poly Center for Teaching and Learning

Creating Accessible Microsoft Word 2007 Documents (Windows)

The California State University's Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) reflects the CSU's ongoing commitment to providing accessible instructional materials to all students regardless of their disability status. Providing accessible instructional materials for your classes can benefit all of your students and remove the barriers they may face when trying to obtain course content.

The first part of this workshop will address the general guidelines for creating accessible instructional materials. The second part will be a hands-on session to actively learn the step-by-step process for creating accessible Microsoft Word 2007 documents followed by a lesson on how to convert such documents into accessible PDFs with Acrobat Professional 8.

Note: Since this hands-on process of making Microsoft Word documents accessible is quite different for the Windows and Macintosh platforms, a future workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in 35-510B.

CANCELLED: September 30, 2009

Tonia Malone & Luanne Fose

Creating Accessible Microsoft Word 2008 Documents (Macintosh)

The California State University's Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) reflects the CSU's ongoing commitment to providing accessible instructional materials to all students regardless of their disability status. Providing accessible instructional materials for your classes can benefit all of your students and remove the barriers they may face when trying to obtain course content.

The first part of this workshop will address the general guidelines for creating accessible instructional materials. The second part will be a hands-on session to actively learn the step-by-step process for creating accessible Microsoft Word 2008 documents on the Macintosh followed by a short lesson on how to convert such documents into accessible PDFs with Acrobat Professional 8. Macintosh iWorks Pages '09 users who wish to make their documents more accessible will also benefit from the concepts presented in this workshop.

Note: The hands-on process for making Microsoft Word documents accessible is quite different for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. A Windows version of this workshop was offered previously and will be repeated in the future.

October 14, 2009

Tonia Malone & Luanne Fose

Wikis and Blogs in Blackboard 8

Are you wondering what a Wiki or Blog can do to support your teaching and learning needs? What is a Wiki or Blog anyway? Come and learn the basics. In this session we will explain and show both the Wiki and Blog tools in Blackboard. We will provide some tips and tricks for using the Wiki and Blog tools and show some examples of how faculty have used them. If you're interested in providing tools that allow your students to keep a journal or work in collaborative groups for short periods of time or quarter-long projects, this session is for you. Even if you're not ready to use the tools just yet but you're interested in seeing how people have used them in the past, this session is for you too!

October 21, 2009

Tonia Malone

Exploring Cutting Edge Technologies to Enhance Student Learning (CANCELLED, will be rescheduled)

Are you aware of the types of cutting edge technologies your multi-tasking students are using in their day-to-day lives? Would you like to understand how these tools could be used more effectively in your teaching and consequently, guide students to be more effective learners? This workshop will look at examples of specific technologies that faculty and students are currently using on our campus to improve learning as well as some innovative uses of some of the more popular software tools and devices. Come and share in our discussion of ways to improve student learning with technology - in and outside of the traditional classroom.

CANCELLED November 4, 2009

Walt Bremer & Luanne Fose