Assistive Technologies
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Courses
Add free, open Assistive Technologies courses | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Instructor's Name | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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Autism Theory and Technology | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-962-autism-theory-and-technology-spring-2007/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Prof. Rosalind W. Picard, Prof. Sherry Turkle | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-693-gender-race-and-the-complexities-of-science-and-technology-a-problem-based-learning-experiment-spring-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Peter Taylor, Prof. Anne Fausto-Sterling | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Relational Machines | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-965-relational-machines-spring-2005/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Cynthia Breazeal | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Course's Name | http:// | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources
Ideas
Develop a web html Validator for this at the W3 - like this one: http://validator.w3.org/
Publish my article in a WUaS journal in this discipline
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ADDING OR IMPROVING A LANGUAGE. 2011. http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html (I believe it uses eSpeak as its voice engine. That project's site has a page on adding languages). SourceForge.
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA). 2011. Welcome to the Home of NVDA. (free, open source screen reader for Windows). NVDA.
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Brewer, Judy. 2011. http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/
Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. http://triton.towson.edu/%7Ejlazar/
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Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. Preventing Societal Discrimination: Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Thatcher, Jim. 2011. Side by Side WCAG vs. 508. (The intention here is to compare the Priority 1 Web Content Accessibility checkpoints with the Section 508 Web Accessibility standards).
Thatcher, Jim. 2009. Skip Navigation Links (Updated 6/19/2009).
W3 Markup Validation Service. 2011. http://validator.w3.org/ (This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available).
WebAIM. 2011. http://webaim.org/
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Wireless Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wireless_Technologies
Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, for find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.
Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
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Android
Broadcast to radio frequency
Create EMail group for page
Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)
Print
Recommend
Send to phone
Translate
Videophone
Free Degrees / Credit
In Google Earth
Google Earth.
In Virtual World
ScienceSim. 2011. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
Second Life - Harvard's virtual island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
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Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com
Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv
Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv
Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software
Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail
iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
PB Works - http://pbworks.com/
Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia
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