Make your takeaways inclusive by design
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This was my first presentation as one of four keynote speakers at the 2015 ICTEDU conference, 25th April, Limerick Institute of Technology, Thurles, Ireland.
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- 1. Make your Takeaways Inclusive by Design BY PAUL GOUGH HOPKINS @VIPODCASTING
- 2. Paul Hopkins runs ViPadvisor.org @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 2
- 3. ViPadvisor.org. Helping hands. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 3
- 4. We are guided by pathways. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 4
- 5. Make. Make your mark. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 5
- 7. The pride you feel when seeing your legacy. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 7
- 9. My teachers. Their marks. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 9
- 11. Inspired to learn Braille by teachers who enjoyed reading. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 11
- 12. Use what works. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 12
- 13. Type. Screen readers. Audio recorders. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 13
- 14. Learn tools. Get job. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 14
- 15. It’s also about making your mark while talking. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 15
- 16. When you’re passionate about audio. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 16
- 17. Make your mark. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 17
- 20. Be an inspiration. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 20
- 22. VIPadvisor: Help when you need it. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 22
- 23. Help VIPadvisor. Make your stuff inclusive by design. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 23
- 24. You can help make both the real and virtual worlds inclusive by design. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 24
- 25. Meaningful relationships are inclusive by design. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 25
- 27. Would you go up here? @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 27
- 29. Usher. Part Lab. Loyal friend. Watch on YouTube. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 29
- 30. Bake. Use a clever workflow. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 30
- 31. Listen. Some ideas for you. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 31
- 32. Share your recipes. Some ideas for you. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 32
- 33. Use your own gear. Like your phone. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 33
- 34. Start with a theme. The Rising. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 34
- 36. To Be Irish. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 36
- 37. Memories are Soundscapes Shop fronts Street scenes @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 37
- 38. We must celebrate the memories. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 38
- 39. Audio memories are precious. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 39
- 40. The only real St. Patrick’s Day is in Ireland. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 40
- 41. How you could make memories come to life. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 41
- 42. Introducing Bossjock Studio @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 42
- 43. Two apps. One clever result. Bossjock App @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 43 Dropbox
- 44. Hands-on Demo iPhone 6 Bossjock Dropbox @clairerandall @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 44
- 45. Listen at Audioboom.fm/vipodcasting @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 45
- 46. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 46 Click to see the video.
- 47. Bake your work into a social dynamic. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 47
- 51. The Essential Fits 1. Fit for the audience. 2. Fit your time. 3. Fits continuity. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 51
- 52. Reach for the closest thing you can hold. Be there. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 52
- 54. Your takeaways are precious. @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 54
- 55. Find me. I like to talk. @vipodcasting @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 55
- 56. Helpful Links BossJock Dropbox VIPadvisor.org LIT.ie/ictedu Audioboom.fm/vipodcasting and VIP-Advisor Channel Linkedin.com/in/vipodcasting YouTube.com/vipodcasting @vipodcasting @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 56
- 57. PRESENTED AT #ICTEDU @VIPODCASTING CC-BY-4.0 57
Editor's Notes
- Presented to teachers at the 2015 ICT in Education Conference on the Thurles campus of the Limerick Institute of Technology. This presentation uses Braille notes and Paul used them in Smartview Synergy while presenting this talk.
- Paul Hopkins is currently manager at All Formats, a social enterprise specialising in creating, producing and transcribing standard print to accessible formats for people with reading difficulties. He produces braille, large print and audio. Paul's diverse business roles include interactions with both the visually impaired and mainstream customer relationship management. His highly proficient audio editing and success with VIPadvisor, an online support platform for people who are visually impaired, led to Audioboom offering him a podcasting channel that has attracted thousands of visually impaired, commercial and casual listeners. Some of Paul's most engaging pieces of social audio have included commentary aboard Virgin Trains, soundscapes in public venues with Usher the guide dog and reflections, professional challenges as a piano tuner and the current state of inclusive design.
- The VIPadvisor community is a group of blind and visually impaired people who give each other a hand in all aspects of living with a visual impairment. The idea is that if you need help then ask and if you can support those who have questions then jump on in.
- Usher and Ben help to make pathways.
- “Make” is the first of three themes at the ICT in Education Conference in 2015.
- Make your mark. Does anyone know what this is? David Abraham certainly made his mark. As The new Director of Perkins School for the Blind, Dr Gabriel Farrell wanted a better braille writer--better than those being produced elsewhere in the 1930s. Farrell found the person who would produce this machine in an unlikely place: the Perkins woodworking department, where David Abraham was a teacher. Dr Farrell learned of Abraham's ability with machine design and asked him to design a new braille writer. Dr Farrell also asked Edward Waterhouse, a maths teacher, to consult with Abraham. Abraham, Dr Farrell and Dr Waterhouse developed the specifications for the new machine. David Abraham presented his brailler prototype to Farrell in November 1939. His prototype, which came to be known as the Perkins Brailler, is the same brailler known worldwide today. Abraham oversaw production of the Brailler for more than ten years, during which time, more than 16,000 machines were produced.
- David returned to visit the school a couple of years after retiring. Waterhouse remembers walking with Abraham as he toured the school, his legacy fully unfolded. "People were praising him; he was seeing all the work being done and the number of braille writers being produced," he says. "He was like a little boy. He was smiling, he was happy, he was so proud.
- David Abraham died in 1978 at age 82.
- My teachers made their mark. I was the young boy who wanted to do things my way.
- I insisted on trying to read and write in exceedingly large print.
- I was inspired to learn Braille by Teachers like yourselves who, in my case, found ways of encouraging me to read books which I would enjoy. In the end, if the boy wanted to read good stories, He would have to learn Braille, simple as that.
- Later, other teachers would pass on the value of being able to pick up and use whatever worked for me in terms of my progression including:
- Learning to touch type; Use of Screen reading software; Utilising recording equipment.
- Those legacies are part of the story as to how I do my job which includes the communication skills needed to maintain relationships with high value clients; the ability to produce Braille and audio commercially and why I am able to pick up a smartphone.
- Making my own mark--always a tough one when talking about yourself!
- I have a passion for the spoken word, for recording things as they happen, for storing memories for later use. I think of audio as a blind person's photo album. I started my own audioblog as a way of expressing myself– not expecting comments, questions, feedback etc. from blind and sighted people alike.
- Making your own mark, what about you? You are making your mark by coming out on this lovely Saturday as part of a dynamic community and conference which will no doubt be looking at the landscape and whatever it might throw at you over the coming year.
- You will and have left gems in lives very different to the way you found them.
- Inspire your listeners and inspire your students.
- I do believe we inspire by being an inspiration. I grew in confidence enough to consider fulfilling my dream of wanting others to have opportunities in a society which can sometimes feel hostile for those who have a disability.
- I founded VIPadvisor two and a half years ago and run it with my partner Claire. You will hear more from her later. VIPadvisor is a community for people who are vision impaired and anyone interested the VI conversation.
- So the strapline is “Help when you want it, support if you don't!” It is both a welcome to those who need help or have questions and a challenge to those to bring what they know so that others can benefit. Those conversations--questions, experiences, learning, living—have flowed into the wider world because our own lives do. The Audioboom channel is https://audioboom.com/channel/vip-advisor
- Make sure you're inclusive by design.
- Those same conversations: the spoken word; the advocacy; the self-help; the encouragement and support have developed in a collective way and are not coming from just one person or source. It doesn't matter who you are; where you are; what you think or how you feel as you can be involved, valued, a part of the big picture and feel as though you can accomplish more whether in the real or virtual environment.
- And that does happen. VI people have made relationships and connections with sighted people as friends, like Bernie and I, where a VI connection is not necessarily the central element of that connection.
- Think laterally. Even my guide dog is inclusive by design. Seen here with guide dog Ben taking us along the glass bottomed walkway high above the Thames, spanning the distance between the towers at Tower Bridge. Usher and Ben are taking us on pathways which lead to greater independence and a lot of fun.
- Would you go up here?
- Photo shows Claire, Nathan, Guide dogs Usher and Ben and I on the walkway above the river Thames which is strung between the towers of Tower Bridge.
- Photo shows Usher working. See on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QTY5nvvLLAE
- So, what am I asking you to do? Bake it into your particular flow.
- You may wonder, wait a minute Paul! What are you asking me to do? I'm not asking you to do anything. I am just showing you, whether here today; or our listeners and viewers online right now.
- There is a time that you can make similar and relevant to you type things happen and some of the processes, the hidden bakers tips, the hidden kitchen magic clues might be in how I have been doing it. You as teachers, have a limited amount of time in which to direct efforts to reach a greater audience or push the enthusiasm you have.
- Creating a Workflow might be as simple as picking up what you already have--like my phone here--and using it.
- Ireland 2016 Easter Rising Centenary Programme is a fantastic opportunity to Make, Bake, Take with its five intersecting themes: Can anyone remember what they are?
- Remembering the past. Reconciling and respecting all traditions. Presenting Ireland to the world. Imagining our future. Celebrating our achievements.
- Students are going to be addressing what it means to be Irish in the context of the Republic’s founding.
- There are soundscapes of the time in 1916 which don't exist any longer. Sweetshops which don't exist. Routines which are radically different.
- And the centurion survivors of that time are not likely to be able to tell of those memories if we don't find them.
- That said, the audio memories of what they did are probably fresh in the minds of their kids, the grandparents of the children in school today.
- I love all things Ireland so, like millions around the world, will definitely be tuning into the flow of all things 2016. And remember, it isn't happening anywhere else in the world... the only real version will be here, like St Patrick’s Day celebrations and Guinness!
- What defined the first story I told about David Abraham? For me, it was the telling by others of things they remembered about Him. So, let me demonstrate how this might work for you: Tell what I am using and how.
- Bossjock Studio uses a “cart” metaphor familiar with audio engineers and broadcasters.
- Recommending you use Bossjock app in conjunction with Dropbox.
- Claire Randall pre-recorded a piece 400 miles away in London earlier. Claire will tell us of a favourite memory as she recalls living in South Africa as a child. Paul cued up Claire. Record all and publish to the world in front of the audience.
- The clip publishes to http://audioboom.fm/vipodcasting at https://audioboom.com/boos/3120308-a-nation-remembered-by-clairerandall-inclusivebydesign-ictedu2015-makebaketake-edchatie.mp3
- http://youtu.be/wBi5jDLFIpE
- Bake your work into a social dynamic. Why Audio? For me? Recording because, at the very moment of doing it, you are capturing all that was going on at that time.
- You have the opportunity to describe anything which might be missing like: What you can see; what the smells are like; build a multi-sensory picture which best captures the moment. You are capturing the imagination of the listener because you have to recreate those images and multi-sensory experiences in their own imagination. Pictures do all that for them so no real input from the listener is needed. What did your imagination give you when listening to Claire?
- It is social to share your audio. It is social to take a recording of a conversation and put it into a place where others can hear it; Experience it; share it; talk about it; respond to it.
- Please share Paul Hopkins's essential 1-2-3 recipe.
- 1. Has to fit in terms of message to the audience. 2. Has to fit in terms of the time that you have. 3. It has to fit in terms of continuity.
- a. Reach for the closest thing you can hold and that's where you should try to place your work. That's what VipAdvisor does. Its flow goes into the hands and ears of thousands of listeners.
- b. Encourage listeners and readers to take it away by making it easy for them to follow, listen and follow a call to action. Try to hold the audience attention. That is when you know that you have made your mark.
- c. What you create as a takeaway is the real gem. You may think about it as a rough cut, sometimes my content is, but if you've shared something authentic, it is, in fact, a real gem. I hope you feel inspired?
- If you did then my name is Paul Hopkins and my username on all social networks I frequent is: vipodcasting. Thanks for joining in the conversation with me. (The notes for this presentation were copied directly from the Braille.) ----ends----
- Paul @vipodcasting Hopkins runs the VIPadvisor website and uses a channel on Audioboom to support the visually impaired.
- This presentation featured as a keynote during the ICT in Education Conference, April 25, 2015 in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. See http://www.lit.ie/ictedu for more details.