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Microsoft Inclusive Classroom at FETC 2018
The document outlines strategies for teachers to enhance learning outcomes and accessibility using Microsoft tools, emphasizing the importance of inclusive education for individuals with disabilities. It highlights various Office 365 features like immersive reader, dictation, and accessibility checkers designed to support students with diverse needs. Additionally, it provides resources and training for educators to create accessible materials and improve communication in classrooms.
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- 1. 7 Steps to HelpTeachers Improve Learning Outcomes and Accessibility
- 2. Help us understandour audience… • General special education? • Adaptive special education? • In the classroom?
- 3. Agenda – MicrosoftCulture
- 4. MicrosoftMission Microsoft Mission Empower everyperson and every organization on the planet to achieve more
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- 6. How we thinkabout Disability Disability Disability
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- 9. Over 1 billionpeople with disabilities.
- 10. 8 million experiencesituational exclusion
- 11. Agenda – OfficeAccessibility
- 12. Empower All Studentswith Office 365 Accessibility Learning Tools Comprehension, fluency and decoding aids Word, OneNote, Outlook Web Access, and Edge Office Lens Take content from the analog to the digital world Immersive Reader available for Office Lens on iOS Dictate Use voice to get your best thoughts into your documents Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook Editor Write easy-to-read documents, with more confidence Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook Read Aloud Read your content with simultaneous word highlighting Word, OneNote, Outlook Web Access, and EDGE
- 13. Free Seeing AIapp on iOS https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/
- 14. Free Office Lenson iOS with Immersive Reader http://aka.ms/officelens
- 15. Free Learning Toolsfor OneNote http://onenote.com/learningtools
- 16. Free Dictate forOffice http://dictate.ms
- 17. Free Editor (builtinto Microsoft Word)
- 18. Learning Tool isImproving Student Outcomes
- 19. State Measured ReadingSpeeds are Increasing
- 20. “Our pupils allpretty much without exception hate writing. The learning tools transformed writing for our pupils.” - Jan Lusty, Head of School at Knowl Hill
- 21. Supported by Research BritishDyslexia Association & Knowl Hill School Study
- 22. A story planningsheet for a 9 year old boy…
- 23. …and his independentlycreated story in OneNote.
- 24. A story planningsheet for an 11 year old girl…
- 25. …and her independentlycreated story in OneNote.
- 26. Developed with Experts,e.g. Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, Dyslexic Advantage
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- 28. “No one shouldhave to ask for access, it should just be there.” Marlee Matlin Academy Award Winning Actress Outside In Talk at Microsoft December 2016
- 29. Office 365 enablesaccessible communications
- 30. Meet Veronica “I’ve introducedWord’s Accessibility Checker to a lot of my professors when creating accessible materials, and showing them that it takes less than a minute to make a document accessible. Why wouldn’t you do it?”
- 31. Agenda – WindowsAccessibility
- 32. Windows 10 Accessibility vision Makeyour device easier to see or use with or without a screen hearing Make your device easier to hear or use without sound cognition Make it easier to focus and get things done with Windows physical Make your device easier to use of you have limited reach or strength
- 33. Ease of Access Makeaccessibility easier to discover, learn and use Coming Soon!
- 34. Vision Make your deviceeasier to see or use with or without a screen Recently Added! Greyscale Deuteranopia Protanopia Tritanopia
- 35. Hearing Make your deviceeasier to hear or use without sound Recently Added!
- 36. Physical Make your deviceeasier to use if you have limited reach or strength Recently Added!
- 37. Cognition Make it easierto focus and get things done with Windows Recently Added! Recently Added! Coming Soon!
- 38. Partner Solutions Windows hasa growing number of accessibility apps and extensions Recently Added!
- 39. Agenda – Announcements& Resources
- 40. Announced this week! •Dictation in Office—this tool will help students write by using only their voice. Starting in February, Dictation will be available in Word, Word Online, PowerPoint, Outlook Desktop, OneNote Windows 10, and OneNote Online— and in more than nine languages. • Read Aloud— allows students to hear the contents of an email while each word is highlighted in sync. It will soon be available on Outlook Desktop in more than 30 text-to-speech languages. • Immersive Reader— to further support students of different backgrounds, Immersive Reader now supports an additional 10 new languages. It is also coming to even more platforms in 2018 and will soon be available on Word for Mac, iPhone, and Android, as well as Outlook Desktop and OneNote for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- 41. 5 free Microsofttools to try today 1. Communicate and collaborate seamlessly with Office 365 aka.ms/OfficeEducation 2. Engage your diverse audience by presenting with subtitles aka.ms/TranslatorForEducation 3. Create assignments that are accessible by design aka.ms/AccessibleTemplates 4. Go paper-less with Office Lens and Seeing AI aka.ms/OfficeLens & microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/ 5. Encourage independent reading and writing onenote.com/LearningTools
- 42. 5 Microsoft sitesto bookmark and share 1. Educator Training on Inclusive Content aka.ms/AccessibleContentTraining 2. Educator Training for Personalizing Learning education.microsoft.com/GetTrained/accessibility 3. Training on Creating a Digitally Inclusive Learning aka.ms/AchievementForAll 4. Answer Desk for Accessibility Support aka.ms/Edad 5. Microsoft Accessibility Overview microsoft.com/Accessibility