Opera

Opera: The works!

Here are some conferences where I have presented and selected publications.

Conferences 2010-11

See also projects
MoodleMoot 2011

Conferences 2008-9

Location Independent most of this academic year.

Report on ALT conference where I presented a poster.

Conferences 2007-8

2008 Plymouth e-learning conference

Workshop entitled A tale of Two Projects

The 3rd International Conference on e-Learning

held at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
26-27 June 2008
16
133 - 140

Is the e-Learning Object “Create Interactive Accessible e-Learning” Accessible?

ALT-C 2008

ALT Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get your free e-learning here: building an e-learning object by exploiting open source applications

Conferences 2006-7

Alaska’s 1st Midnight Sun Assistive Technology Conference

August 7 – 9 2007
http://www.akatconf.com (points to 2009 conference)

Portable Web Browser (free!) for personalized settings, favorites and research
A portable web browser is software used for surfing the internet that the user can carry around as it is contained on a USB stick. Personalized browser settings remain on the stick and a user can bookmark sites simultaneously. Preliminary trials with Coventry University staff and students give favorable results.

Dundee ITiCSE

12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Best Poster
ITiCSE 2007 - Inclusive Education in Computer Science
http://is.gd/4Wl4

‘Touching the void’ … narrowing the crevasse between the tactile diagrams that tutors request and those that work in reality

Selected Publications

Orsini-Jones, M., Courtney, K. and Dickinson, A. (2005) Supporting foreign language learning for a blind student: a case study from Coventry University, British Journal of Learning Support 20 (3) pp. 146-152.

Transition to the next generation of e-learning:

using mind mapping and accessible web pages as part of a university’s academic staff training
ITALICS (Volume 5 Issue 4,December 2006)
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5iss4.htm