Creating inclusive classrooms with Office 365 EducationCathy
Harley, Kenichiro Chiba, Michael Heyns & Malavika Rewari,
Microsoft Product Managers.Robin Lowell, Microsoft Innovative
Educator.Slides available in aka.ms/inclusiveclassroom
Todays discussion will cover 3 things123What Office 365 is and
how it is designed to be accessibleAn educators experience using
Office 365 in an inclusive learning environmentWhere you can find
free services and support for accessibility
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Access can change your students lives.
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Hear from a special education teacher, the impact Learning Tools
had on her students with dyslexia
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What is Office 365 Education and how is it designed to be
accessible?
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What is Office 365 Education?Office apps & services that
allow you to organize, collaborate, and engage studentsEnables
getting work done from the device of your choice.Works online and
offline.Includes apps built for education and are student focused
and teacher inspired.Students and teachers can get Office 365
Education for FREE!
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To learn more, visit
https://products.office.com/en-us/student/office-in-education5
How is Office 365 Education designed to be accessible?Office 365
enhances in accessibility monthly, based on feedback from people
with a range of vision, hearing, speech, mobility & reading
abilities To make is easy for you use productivity technologies
with:DyslexiaAlternative Input DevicesAssistive TechnologiesEase of
Access SettingsTo make it easy for you to create content that is
usable by:Checking for accessibilityDescribing visual
contentCaptioning audio contentRetaining accessibility upon
export
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Office 365 applications are being designed to make commands and
information easy to access for people with disabilities across a
variety of devices and with both built-in and third-party assistive
technologies. Today, we will show you examples of enhancements that
students with disabilities in your institutions can leverage to
enhance productivity with:DyslexiaKeyboardsSpeech input toolsEase
of access settingsScreen readersWe will also show you capabilities
that students, teachers, parents and staff in your institutions can
use to easily create accessible content.
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To build the next decade of innovation, Microsoft must take
universal design and accessibility to heart
- Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft is shifting its approach to accessibility, to make its
impact more rapid and longer lastingDriving culture change Making a
sustained higher investment Bringing accessibility into everyday
processesBuilding relationships across the ecosystem and building a
feedback loop
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How can Office 365 help create an inclusive learning
environment?
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Hear from Robin, a Microsoft Innovative Education Expert
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My name is Robin Lowell and I am special education teacher. I
started out as an itinerant teacher of blind and visually impaired
students, then moved to the Washington State School for the Blind
where I taught distance education math classes using MSFT Lync,
which is now Skype to students in 3 different states in a
synchronous setting. I am now the special education teacher at GEK
a brand new Big Picture Learning School in Issaquah, WA9
What does an inclusive environment look like?Students work
independently, efficiently and confidently in a format that best
suits them.Accessible technologies let:Students consume content in
their preferred wayStudents make content in their preferred
wayStudents collaborate inclusivelyStudents stay organized
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We are going to talk about 4 different areas, consuming content,
creating content, sharing/collaborating and communicating and
finally organization and explore ways that help students work
independently, efficiently and confidently in a format that best
suits there needs.
When I think about an inclusive classroom, I think about way to
sure make every students experience as rich, appropriate and
effective as possible. I am constantly looking for ways to keep the
content and access to all content and materials, that are as close
to their peers as possible. Modifications verses
accommodations:Modifications are very important and necessary for
many students, but I find myself trying to find ways to replace
modifications with accommodations. Modifications change content,
whether that is shortening a reading assignment or excusing a
student from an assignment. Accommodations are tools or strategies
that do not change the content, but the access and usability. Today
we are going to talk about ways that will help your student access
the full content that all their peers have access to.10
Lets see some applications that let students consume content in
their preferred wayWith built-in read modesWith ease of access
settings or assistive technologiesStudents consume content in their
preferred wayStudents make content in their preferred wayStudents
collaborate inclusivelyStudents stay organized
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We would like to start out talking about how students consume
content. How students will access written materials, as well the
ability to personalize the computer to make is easier for the
student to use. The first tool we are going to talk about is
Learning Tools, I am going to hand it over to Michael to tell you
all about this game changing tool. Giving students to option to
consume and read content in their preferred manner eases the burden
and increases confidence and decreases frustration.
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The value of Learning ToolsChallengeDyslexia is estimated to
impact 1 in 5 people73% of classrooms have readers that span 4 or
more grade levels *72% of classrooms have special education
students *52% of classrooms have English Language Learners *
Proven SolutionImproved decoding and sustained attention with
Read AloudReduced errors and increased speed with Text
SpacingImproved word recognition and comprehension with
Syllables
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* Scholastic and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation survey of
20,000 public school teachers
As you know, todays classrooms are diverse. Teachers are
expected to personalize learning for each of their students and can
lose up to 50% of their instructional time teching while still many
students needs go unmet. Learning Tools make it easier for teachers
to improve learning outcomes for each of their students and Im
going to show you what weve been working on at Microsoft in that
vein.
Simultaneous highlighting and voicing text is proven to improve
decoding and sustain attention ** Floyd & Judge, The Efficacy
of Assistive Technology on Reading Comprehension for Postsecondary
Students with Learning Disabilities, 2012
50% fewer reading errors with spacing than when reading text
without spacing* Marco Zorzi, et al., Extra-large letter spacing
improves reading in dyslexia
27% increase in reading speed when using short line lengths*
Matthew H. Schneps, et al., Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in
Those Who Struggle
10% increase in reading comprehension for adults with
syllabificationYu-Chi Tai, et al. , Within-Word Text Segmentation
on Lexical Processing and Reading
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Learning Tools in the news
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Our initial foray into this space with Learning Tools in OneNote
has been overwhelmingly successful, and its incredible to think
that this effort spun out of a small group of individuals and their
own initiative to build something that works to address the issues
with productivity software and dyslexia.
Visit https://www.onenote.com/learningtools to learn more, and
stay tuned for these features to appear across a broad range of
Microsoft products. Lets take a look at some of the endpoints well
see learning tools start to appear in the next few months. 13
Demo: Learning Tools
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Gif of Learning Tools in Word
Word for PCs will soon offer some Learning Tools capabilities
built-in to help students with dyslexia read word documents more
effectively!Capabilities coming soon include: a Read Aloud feature
that reads text out loud with simultaneous highlighting to improve
decoding, fluency, and comprehension while sustaining focus and
attention.a Text Spacing feature which optimizes font spacing in a
narrow column view to improve reading fluency for users who suffer
from "visual crowding issues.a Syllabification feature which
improves word recognition and decoding.
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Gif of Learning Tools in WordOnline
Word Online too will soon offer some Learning Tools capabilities
built-in to help students with dyslexia read word documents more
effectively!16
Reading Mode in Edge Browser (turned OFF)
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The next thing in consuming content I would like to talk about
is the reading mode in the Edge Browser. I personally use this
feature quite. Reading mode helps you focus solely on the content.
On the screen I have two pictures side by side, the left shows the
regular webpage and the right show the reading mode. All of the
advertisements and other distracting elements are removed and just
the article is left in a clear and clear page. My students that are
very easily distracted are able to focus on the content and make
progress.
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Reading Mode in Edge Browser (turned ON)
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When reading mode is turned on, you can see that all the clutter
has been removed, the background color has changed to a neutral
color the font is easy to read, and advertisements and buttons have
been removed and all that is left is the content of the page. I
have found this to be helpful not only for students who have a
print disability but also focus issues, there is less distraction
to pull focus away from the content.18
Ease of Access Center
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Now I would like to transition and talk about how students can
personalize the computer to make it easier to use, so we are going
to explore a few features of the ease of access center. My students
are able to dial in exactly what they need in order to successfully
and efficiently use their computer. I am only going to touch on a
couple of the features of the Ease of access center today, but I
would suggest spending some time exploring it.
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High contrast mode in Windows 10 (turned OFF)
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First, I want to mention high contrast. On the top of this
slide, you can see the regular Office ribbon which might be
familiar to most of you. On the bottom of this slide, you can see a
simulation of how this ribbon appears to someone with cataract or
other vision issue Without high contrast mode turned on, this
ribbon is hardly usable.
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High contrast mode in Windows 10 (turned ON)
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However, with high contrast mode turned on, icons in the ribbon
become more readable, even in the simulation for the view with
cataract. There has been a lot of thought and effort that has gone
in to making Office 365 applications work well in high contrast
mode. I have had so many students that were always flipping in and
out of high contrast mode, trying to see everything properly. Now
that Office 365 for Windows is being enhanced to work well with
High Contrast mode, they will be able to get things done more
efficiently. 21
DEMO
Working with data in High Contrast mode with Excel Online
Additional enhancements are becoming available this year to make
it easy to work with data in High Contrast mode. If you have been
working in Excel Online on a PC with this mode turned on, youll
notice that tables, active cell & cells selection outlines are
more visible, that hyperlinks in sheets are respecting High
Contrast theme colors allowing shapes and charts are being rendered
using High Contrast theme colors.
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Magnifier
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Next, I want to tell you about the magnifier. So many of my
students used the magnifier feature, and they really like it. The
ability to choose 3 different styles of magnifier, docked, where
one section of the screen is magnified, lens that is akin to a hand
held magnifier and full screen. When using magnifier you have the
option to invert the colors, have the magnifier start automatically
and how the magnifier tracks. The ease of turning magnifier on and
off has greatly improved to making it easier to switch back and
forth between modes.
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Narrator
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Last but not the least, I want to tell you about Narrator.
Narrator is the built-in screen reader in Windows 10. It received
several key updates as part of the recent Windows 10 anniversary
update. These included new voices that can speak up to 800 words
per minute, six levels of verbosity, so you can get varying
indications of text properties and control over how much
punctuation you hear, and verbal hints when automatic suggestions
are available.The Office 365 team continues to work closely with
the Narrator team to enhance productivity experiences for screen
reader users. I wanted to let you know where Narrator can be found,
and it will be shown in action later in the presentation.
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Lets see some applications that let students make content in
their preferred wayContent that is accessibleContent that is backed
by researchContent that is polished and professional
MicrosoftStudents consume content in their preferred wayStudents
make content in their preferred way
Students collaborate inclusivelyStudents stay organized
Now that we have looked at tools that can help students consume
content in their preferred way, lets move on to creating content
that is accessible, that has is backed by research and is
professional and polished. So many of my students have great ideas
but struggle with creating content the are proud of.25
rDemo:Creating, researching &reviewing documents
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CreatingStudents who use screen readers struggle trying to get
around efficiently, without using too many steps and clicks. When I
introduced the Tell Me What You Want to Do Feature in office, I was
a hero. In the ribbon in Office 2016 and O365 if you click on Tell
me or use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Q and type in what you need.
For example, if you want to start researching a topic, just type in
Researcher, arrow down click enter and it will take you there.
ResearchingResearcher is a new service in Word that helps you
find and incorporate reliable sources and content for your paper in
fewer steps. Right within your Word document you can explore
material related to your topic and add itand its properly-formatted
citation one click. Researcher uses the Bing Knowledge Graph to
pull in the appropriate content from the web and provide
structured, safe and credible information. Another helpful feature
is Smart Look. High light a word and find out more about it, even
have pictures right there to drag into the document and add alt
text to it. Not having to change programs to find a picture is a
really great feature. There is language translation, and even being
able to proof a document in another language.
ReviewingIn Office across the platforms in the Office Ribbon is
the review tab. This tab has a lot of really great features that
help make a document look professional and become accessible.
First, you can see the accessibility checker is here. It will
scan the document and identify problem areas for accessibility. By
the end of the year, the accessibility checker will be available in
even more apps, including Office Online apps, OneNote and Outlook.
It has already become available in Sway!
My favorite thing that recently released and will completely
change how I write is going to be the Editor feature. I have
students who will completely change a sentence because they cannot
get close enough to the correct spelling for spell check to figure
it out. I am one of these people. It will be able to correct
phonetically spelled words. This is going to change my
classroom.
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Editor helps bring out your best writingWrite with Confidence
Help finding errorsHelp choosing the right suggestionGuidance on
writing issuesWrite Easy-to-read DocumentsCompelling and appealing
to your audienceClear and conciseInclusive Design to benefit
everyoneSynonyms alongside each suggestion aid choice between
similar-looking suggestionsRead Aloud aids comprehension of
proofing suggestionsSpell checkers are more likely to offer
suggestions when the typed word is very different from the intended
wordReduces the energy students spend for low-level processing like
spelling, and frees up mental desk space for the higher-level
cognitive tasks involved in writing.
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The new Editor feature in Word and Outlook for PCs can help
students with dyslexia write more easily and with more confidence.
A new context menu design gives students synonyms alongside
suggestions, and can also have suggestions read aloud. This aids
comprehension and help them choose between similar-looking
suggestions. Also, enhancements to Office spell checkers give
students with dyslexia better suggestions to correct misspellings
and significantly reduce how often they get No Suggestions,
especially when the typed word looks very different from the right
word.These enhancements help reduce the energy students spend for
low-level processing like spelling, and frees up mental desk space
for the higher-level cognitive tasks involved in writing.
I was working with a student last week who was trying to put
together his resume about 10 minutes into he felt so defeated
because his errors felt like roadblocks. He knew what he wanted to
say, he just couldnt get the words close enough and he wanted to
give up. This feature opened a door for him, it allowed him to
focus on the content and ideas he was trying to get down, the
options and synonyms gave him independence to not have to ask or
have someone sit by him and coach him through the entire
document.
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rDemo:Editor in Word
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Editor in Outlook
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Polished and Accessible presentations with easePowerPoint
Designer automates slide Layout for images Drop in an image, and
get professional-grade design ideas for image layout and
colorsImproved keyboard accessibility - less need to manually
position & resize imagesSpend less time figuring out high
quality designs, and more time preparing your messageAutomated
alternative text suggestion for images (coming in the
future!)Inserting a recognizable image will automatically give it
computer-generated alt-textPresentation owner can easily view and
modify alt-textLets students using screen readers access content in
a richer wayDecreases the time teachers spend to ensure that
content is accessible for all students
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rDemo:Designing a presentation
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Designer in PowerPoint makes it effortless to create
beautiful-looking slides, without requiring keyboard users to
manually format pictures, bulleted lists, and graphicsSo many
students get hung up on the design process of a PowerPoint
presentation that the content becomes a secondary focus instead of
the primary focus. Designer will help those students focus on the
most important part the content. Students who use screen readers
will have an easier time creating professional looking presentation
independently that look good and focus on the content
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A screenshot of design ideas being offered in PowerPoint for
PCs:
PowerPoint Designer allows anyone to create high quality
professional slides within seconds. Just drop an image into your
presentation and Designer provides you with several design ideas.
Select your favorite and youre done. This allows you to spend less
time figuring out how to produce high quality designs and more time
preparing for that key momentyour presentation.32
A screenshot of auto-image description coming soon in PowerPoint
for PCs:
In the future, we will offer updates to Office 365 customers
that will make authoring accessible content much easier using
computer vision and machine learning. For example, when you insert
a picture into PowerPoint for PCs, if our service can recognize it
with high confidence, we will automatically describe it, and allow
you to revise the description to be sent back to our service to
train our machine learning models. This will allow our service to
get better and better with each person who uses it. This will allow
students who are using screen readers to access the content in a
richer way that also decreases the amount of time a teacher is
spending to ensure that it is accessible for all of the
students.
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Lets see some applications that let students collaborate
inclusivelyWith captions for those who cannot hearWith
screen-reader friendly co-authoring for those who cannot seeIn
virtual spaces that can be navigated hands-free or
eyes-freeStudents consume content in their preferred wayStudents
make content in their preferred wayStudents collaborate
inclusively
Students stay organized
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Now that we have looked at consuming and creating content
inclusively, lets look at how students can collaborate inclusively.
Working in groups can be really hard for students with
disabilities, often times they dont play a role in the group that
matches their abilities. We will look at adding captions for those
who cannot hear, screen-reader friendly co-authoring for those who
cannot see, and even in virtual spaces that can be navigated
hands-free or eyes-free. I would to introduce you to Cathy and she
will take us through a few of these incredible tools.
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Using a screen reader with Office 365 is
moreReliableConsistentUsableEfficient
Everywhere you use OfficeDesktopMac
Online
UniversaliPad
Phone
iPhone
Phone
Tablet
At Microsoft, weve shifted from looking at accessibility, and
screen reader usage, as a compliance requirement to a usability
requirement - and we're taking this requirement very seriously. We
have more engineers working on accessibility now than ever before.
If you're on Office 365, you're going to be seeing improvements
every single month on whatever platform you use-- Windows, Mac,
iOS, or Android. The screen reader experience on Office 365 will be
the latest, greatest and most accessible screen reader experience
we offer for all apps and for all common screen readers. To help
tackle such large scale improvements across our large eco-system,
weve spent tons of time talking to customers, we've run focus
groups and we've look at data about the most important features in
our apps to make sure that we're working on the most important
problems first.Our focus around improvements can be thought about
in 4 parts: reliability, consistency, usability, and efficiency.
Reliable: You can trust your experience. Weve cleaned up the area
and fixed many of the bugs. Ex: Scan mode and navigation on Word:
Fewer dead ends, focus traps, etc. Dont have to restart Narrator or
your AT. Weve made hundreds of improvements here, and there isnt
one of them that will stand out as an outstanding demo, but in
general, the quality in our products is so much better. Consistent:
announcements have the appropriate information for the platform and
verbosity level. The experience feels the same across Office and
similar apps. Ex: Tables on Mac. Reliability and consistency are
the core of what weve been focusing our energy on for the past
year. We had a lot of work to do in these areas, and without a
solid foundational experience that our users can trust, any other
improvements wouldnt be worthwhile. Usable: You can access all of
the important features in Office and get your work done. We've
started making improvements here and there are even more that we'd
like to makeEfficient: You can efficiently complete the core tasks
in Office. This is an area that we're very proud of the progress
we've made and we can't wait to do even more. As we continue to
move forward and more our apps more usable and efficient with
screen readers, we are looking to continue to engage with our
customers and the accessibility community. Accessibility is
something were committed to ingraining in our culture long term,
and were committed to continually improving it.So now I'm going to
walk you through a demo that shows some of the improvements we've
made that can enable to student who depends on assistive technology
to collaborate with others on a group project.
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Word with Office 365 will let screen readers more effectively
announce comments, track changes, presence of co-authors
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This is a very exciting update for Office 365 Education users.
This will allow the student to have meaningful collaboration,
receive comments and editing from teachers and peers in a way that
is equal to the rest of the class. Students can get feedback
instantly, not having to send it to edited or transcribed again
adding a level of independence and richness to the experience that
all students need.36
rDemo:Collaborating with a group in Word
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Skype Preview app with the latest Windows 10 offers automated
captions when translate is turned on for calls
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We just talked about collaborating with students using Word, now
lets look at ways that students can collaborate and communicate
using Skype. I used skype to teach my high school math classes for
5 years in a synchronous real time setting where we were hundreds
of miles apart. Now Skype has a new feature that is taking
collaboration possibilities even further.
Lets take a look at Skype Translator capabilities which are now
part of Skype preview. Skype Translator will translate
conversations in real time. This opens up endless possibilities for
communication. For example parents who do not speak English and
there is not a translator available can attend a conference with
teacher and have a meaning conversation. Students who are ELL and
want to have a conversation with a peer when working on a project.
For people who are DHH, this allows can allow the student to hold a
conversation with someone when an interpreter is not available,
adding a level of independence, not as a replacement for the
interpreter. Take a look this video
https://youtu.be/spqqcJf5e5Q?t=153 to see the impact Skype
Translator had in one classroom.
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Skype Translator in action in a classroom
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Take a look this video https://youtu.be/spqqcJf5e5Q?t=15339
Lets see some applications that let students stay
organizedOffice LensOneNoteOneDriveand more!Students consume
content in their preferred wayStudents make content in their
preferred wayStudents collaborate inclusivelyStudents stay
organized
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Organization is a struggle for all students, and students who
have learning differences seem to struggle even more. I am going to
show you a few ways that can help a student to track and keep
organized. Just yesterday I was working with a student who is
working on a project and cant wrap his head how to organize all the
pieces and then I introduced him to OneNote. I will talk a little
bit more about that in a minute.
One thing that has helped many of my students is saving
documents in the cloud, such as OneDrive can help students keep
everything in one place that is accessible from any device, and
they can be shared with other people. This is really nice for
students who have a computer to work at a school, but dont
necessarily get to take that device home. They can access those
from home on a different device save it back up to the cloud and
when they return the next day to school all the changes are there
waiting for them in the same place. This is really great because I
have had so many kids have multiple copies of the same document in
different stages of completion and the frustration level rises.
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Office Lens lets you take content from the analog world to the
digital world
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Learn more about Office Lens at
https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/15/office-lens-comes-to-windows-10-and-adds-office-365-support/
I am jumping to Office Lens, this is not an app you would think
of as an accessibility tool, but it really is! Office Lens takes a
picture of a document, whiteboard, etc. and will take it from
analog to digital. I have seen this tool work wonders.
Organizationally, students can take a picture and store it to
OneNote or their OneDrive, so if they lose the paper, they always
have a back up. A student who has a visual impairment can
independently scan the document and turn it into text, and then
format that best suits their needs, large print, audio, or even put
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Office Lens will soon offer voice guidance capabilities:
Coming in the future to Office Lens is an immersive reader and
voice guidance that will help a person who is Blind/visually
impaired accurately scan the document. Office Lens will also offer
some Learning Tools capabilities built-in to help students with
dyslexia read word documents more effectively!
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Office Lens will soon offer immersive reading capabilities:
Coming in the future to Office Lens is an immersive reader and
voice guidance that will help a person who is Blind/visually
impaired accurately scan the document. Office Lens will also offer
some Learning Tools capabilities built-in to help students with
dyslexia read word documents more effectively!
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Demo:Staying organizedin OneNote
Microsoft
I am going to open OneNote now and we are going to look a couple
of features that allow students to create content in ways that
works best for them. I can write on a OneNote page with my stylus
or my finger. I can also turn ink into text. This is important
because research has shown that hand writing notes increases
retention. Students can also add videos and audio to OneNote if
they prefer communicating through media.And with Learning Tools,
they can speak to type using dictation mode.
How many Itinerant teachers are here today?In my position now, I
am in a single building but I am itinerant in that one building. At
the beginning of this year I was really struggling to even find my
students in the building let alone work with them. We started
sharing a OneNote notebook and I have actually increased my student
contact, maybe not in person, but I can look at their notebook, see
what they are working on, make comments, see what they are needing
assistance with and now I know where they are because we have
created a daily schedule that requires them to input where in the
building they are working. Having been an itinerant teacher this
connections to students off site has been invaluable way to connect
with them daily out travelling to see them.
Another thing that can help teachers and students stay organized
is leveraging OneNote ClassNotebook to organize lesson plans and
course content in a digital notebook. OneNote Class Notebooks have
a personal workspace for every student, a content library for
handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative
activities. Learn more at https://www.onenote.com/classnotebook
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Conclusion
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This is a picture of one of my students who has since graduated.
Her name is Allie her senior year she unexpectedly began too lose
her vision. She could no longer read the large print book and she
did not know Braille. This was both emotionally and academically
very challenging for. We brainstormed ways to for her to get her
materials in a timely way that fit her needs. What we settled on
was OneNote. Every day I would write all the problems in a OneNote
notebook in about a 40 pt. font for her. She got these in real time
on her computer and would work the problems out right there on the
page using a stylus on a Wacom tablet to start and then a tablet
computer. It was digital inking that allowed her to participate in
her Algebra 2 class, she kept up and it was a positive experience
that helped her be successful and see that she could be. We are
able to accommodations so she could access her class, we did not
modify any content, she took a college prep algebra 2 class that
she passed all on her own merit.
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What to know where to go to learn more?
Microsoft
Get Office 365 for freeStudents and teachers are eligible for
Office 365 Education, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
OneNote, plus additional classroom tools.
Learn more and get free Office 365 for you and your students at
office.com/education
Microsoft
Visit
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office/default.aspx?v=247
Learn about our approach to making Office 365 accessible by
design
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Hear from a few of the many who work on advancing accessibility
in office 365, their inspiration and vision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOyB68dfZ5s&feature=youtu.be
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Online resources to learn moreMicrosoft.com/Accessibility for an
overview of our commitments, guiding principles and accessibility
features in our productsTwitter.com/MsftEnable for news, updates
and insights Aka.ms/InclusionMechanics for demos of Office 365
accessibility enhancementsAka.ms/A11yInO365 for blogs about Office
365 accessibility plans and progress
Microsoft
Online resources to get notified of accessibility
enhancements49
Accessibility sessions for IT ProfessionalsSlides, recordings
and highlights available forOverview of Office 365
AccessibilityDeep-dive on SharePoint Online AccessibilityPanel
Discussion on Technology Strategy for an Inclusive WorkplaceVisit
this page to access these: http://aka.ms/A11yIgnite
Microsoft
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Free training for educatorsLearn more on
education.microsoft.com/GetTrained/accessibility
Microsoft
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Help articles on Accessibility100s of articles on updated every
month to help Office users Create accessible contentUse
applications with assistive technologiesVisit this page to access
these: http://aka.ms/officeaccessibility
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Visit https://aka.ms/officeaccessibility to learn more52
Disability Answer Desk for accessibility supportVisit this page
to learn more:http://aka.ms/accessibilitysupport
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Visit aka.ms/accessibilitysupport to learn more about the
disability answer desk.
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Install learning toolsfor OneNoteAvailable today for free in
OneNote for PCsBeing extending to more platforms and applications
by end of the year.
Learn more on www.onenote.com/learningtools
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Visit https://www.onenote.com/learningtools to learn more.54
Call someone on Skype with CC in near real timeAvailable today
for free in Skype Preview or in Skype for Windows (consumer)
Learn more on Skype Translator Blog
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To start using Skype Translator today, Skype for Windows
customers click on the globe in the upper right hand corner of the
app. Learn more on
http://blogs.skype.com/2016/01/13/skype-translator-empowers-more-people/55
Learn more about Office 365 Education at Booth #100!Short-talks
being hosted by Microsoft Product Managers later today:Learning
TimeShort-talk Topic1:35-1:55pmExperience enhanced usability with
screen readers in Office 3653:05-3:25pmGet things done efficiently
with just a keyboard in Office 3654:35-4:55pmDiscover ease of
access settings that personalize the computer for students with
disabilities5:05-5:25pmTips and tricks for creating accessible
content easily with Office 365
Microsoft
Questions or feedback?Connect with us today until 530pm at
Exhibit Booth #100 in person Offer suggestions to improve Office:
aka.ms/accessibilityfeedback
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