Ideas for e-Learning

Disabilities

Lexdis is indexed around difficulties rather than disabilities.

Investigate a disability to see the difficulties it causes. Every difficulty has links to relevant strategies!

Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)

Difficulties

Short-Term Memory
Visual Stress
Written Language

Issues

Adobe PDF accessibility issues
Adobe PDF conversion to text to speech
Collecting References
Documents are not available in electronic format
Dragon NaturallySpeaking for getting ideas down.
Essay planning takes too long
Essay structure
Essay writing accuracy
Facebook has its uses but you also waste time!
Flickering on the screen
Learning by doing rather than listening
Mind mapping for planning
Note taking at speed
Note taking difficulties
One screen feels too crowded when working on documents
Organising ideas and notes
Organising references
Organising timetables and e-mails
Preparing Presentations
Reading accurately
Reading for long periods difficult
References from the internet
Referencing problems
Referencing taking up too much time
Referencing with numerical format
Remembering numbers, web addresses etc.
Reports do not help me remember things
Screen glare and resolution settings
Self-plagiarism
Spell checking for assignments
Spelling and vocabulary
Spelling complex words
Spelling online
Time on computer based tasks
Video on Blackboard
Watching videos for revision
Writing too much for an assignment

Strategies

Adjust power settings to dull screen for videos
Facebook with MSN
Find Resources via Blackboard & Google spell check
Google Book Search
Google spell checker and Oxford dictionary
HP iPaq for organisation and note taking
Inspiration for planning a case study
Mind mapping for presentations
Monitor in portrait mode and high resolution
Opera mouse gestures and clicks
Organising with a PDA and mobile phone
Planning using OneNote
Planning using Word and Texthelp
Planning using yEd Graph
Podcasts to aid memory
QuickTime and video podcasts
Recording lectures
Reference Crib Sheet with EndNote
References from digital archives and EndNote
Referencing using Idea Rover and EndNote
Referencing using Microsoft Word 2007
Scanning print documents
Screen resolution changes and tinted glasses
Screenshot Reader for reading inaccessible text
Slowed text to speech and screen shot reader
Smartphone camera as a memory aid
Spelling with Word, Babylon and Google
Two screens for notes and editing.
Using the web to avoid self-plagiarism
Video clips from Blackboard to practice rooms
Wikipedia for meanings

Tasks

Academic writing
Adobe PDF reading
Collaboration online
Generating ideas and planning
Presentations