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>> Good afternoon, everyone.

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My name is Lisa Sieg, and
I'm the Distance Learning

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Coordinator here at our college.

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And today we're going to look

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at a little bit more
in depth at Ally.

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So we're going to look

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at how you can use those
alternative formats inside your

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course, and how your students
are going to find them useful.

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So just to summarize
everything, we're going to look

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at first what the format does
and then we're going to look

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at how to access this document.

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So we're going to
look at tagged PDFs.

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We're going to look
at HTML formatting.

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We're going to look at
E Publishing products

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which is the opposite
of a PDF file.

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We have electronic braille,
audio MP3s, Beeline reader,

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and the translated version.

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So the first thing I'm
going to call your attention

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to is I'm just going to
share this new screen here.

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And I have a practice
course called Ally in Ally.

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And as you can see when you
look at the course we have a lot

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of these gas gauge icons.

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So upon looking at these
icons, if it's in green,

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there's usually an
opportunity to improve.

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Because there's a dial
that moves to the right.

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So unless it's a very dark
green icon like this icon,

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then it means that there's a
perfect accessibility score.

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You're good to go.

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But if not, if it's a light
green then we have some changes

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to make.

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So I just want to give you
kind of a reference point.

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So when you look at
your individual files

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that are attached in
Blackboard, you're going

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to see the gas gauges first, and
then you're going to see this A

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and this little icon that
has a down arrow next to it.

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And this is where your
alternative format comes in.

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So regardless of where
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I'm going to see all
these little A icons

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with alternative formats.

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So if I click on this.

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You're going to see all of the
different options and depending

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on the type of format you use,

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or what format your document is
in, not all options are going

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to be available, such
as the tagged PDF.

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So that's not always
going to be available,

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but sometimes it will be.

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So let me just see if I
can find one of those here.

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So if I start by clicking on
this, all right, so if I click

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on a PowerPoint, for
example, that's going

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to give me the tagged PDF.

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So I would just click
on tagged PDF

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and then I would
choose download.

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So I'm actually just
going to do this.

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I'm going to click download.

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You can see what it looks like.

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So I'm just going to go
on to the next screen now.

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So if you look at this,

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it doesn't really show
anything different, does it?

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So let me explain a little
bit more what this does.

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So a tagged PDF is a
PDF with tags on it.

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So what happens is let's say

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that I have a document
that looks like this.

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So you can see I have all
these little things on it.

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Well actually let me use, let
me use a PowerPoint instead.

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This is a better example.

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So if I'm going to take this
PDF, let me draw on this.

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So what the tagged PDF is
going to do is it's going

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to draw boxes along all
of your important pieces.

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So this is my PDF, and I'm
going to have three tags on it.

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Just like this.

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So I've got 1, 2.

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And then here's the last one.

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This picture.

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So what this does now is
what I would have to do

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in Adobe Acrobat is I would
have to put these in order.

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So if you were in the
accessibility portion

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of Adobe Acrobat, you would
click on this little Z icon

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and it would pull up all the
tags here in your document,

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and then you're just going to
grab them and reorganize them.

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And you're going to
tell your screen reader

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which one to read first.

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So if I look at this document,
I'm going to put tagged PDF here

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as number 1, this is
going to be number 2,

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and this is going
to be number 3.

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But until I add the tags,
I really can't do anything.

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So that's why it's really
important to make sure

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that you're adding the tags,
and that the document is tagged.

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So once it's tagged,
you should be good to go

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So now here's my question.

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How does this help
your students?

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because normally
when I get a PDF.

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I don't think of it in
little boxes of things.

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But where this comes
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if your students are
using a screen reader.

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So the screen reader
doesn't know where to go

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when it sees this electronic PDF
it just sees all of this text.

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And so if you would
just close your eyes

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for a minute you're going
to have to visualize

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where your eyes are going
to move on that page.

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So if you've attended some

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of the other accessibility
training sessions,

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you've noticed that
they've covered headings.

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So in Word we have
a similar format

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that guides a screen
reader called headings,

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so that your students know

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who are using a screen reader
how the text is organized.

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So in the same way with
the PDF we're using tags

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to organize our text.

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So that's what a tagged PDF is.

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And you will have to have
a non-PDF document in order

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to get a tagged PDF which
is a little strange.

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So let's go on -- I'm just going

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to show you one more
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So if I look at the next part --
I'm just going to close this --

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Okay, and then we're going to
look at how do we access this?

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I'm just going to erase this
so that it doesn't distract

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from anything that
we're doing here.

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All right.

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So how do I access this?

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So, first I click on the
Ally icon, and then I click

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on take PDF, and I
just click download.

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So, again, it doesn't
mean anything to me

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but if I would use this with
the screen reader it would be a

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different thing.

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So I'm just going
to clear this out.

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And let's go on to
the next option Oops,

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my annotations are still here.

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Let me clear these
clear all my drawings.

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So now let's look at HTML.

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So that is another option here.

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If I go back on my screen
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so if I look at this,
I have HTML.

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So it says for viewing in
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What does that mean?

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[Laughing] Let me
explain what that is.

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So each TMO format is the most
basic programming language used

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on the internet.

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So it doesn't matter
what browser you use.

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So a lot of times, you'd
hear in Blackboard make sure

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that you use Chrome or Firefox,
are you using Chrome or Firefox?

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But with HTML it doesn't matter.

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You can use Edge, if
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So the nice thing about each
HTML, is it works on anything

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and it really works
on mobile devices

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because it is a basic format.

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So if your students are,
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Or they're using,
I hate to say this,

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but a cell phone [chuckle].

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Yes they do use that.

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They've actually done
studies, and approximately one

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out of every three students
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on their cell phone.

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Or they're taking their internet
service from their cell phone

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and they're using it
to access Blackboard.

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So, HTML is mostly
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because it's so readable.

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So let's say that you
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and it just will not open,

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because obviously you
probably can't put word

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on your phone, right.

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It just won't work.

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So if you have a Word
document, tell your student hey,

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try HTLM format it should work.

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So HTML here is really
good for portable devices

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like cell phones especially
or tablet computers.

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And that actually gets in a
little bit to the next one.

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So, as you guys know,
that kind of --

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the routine you'd
click on the Ally icon,

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you click on HTML and download.

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Now the next thing is a little
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but it's specific
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So we call this EPUB.

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So it's the opposite of a PDF.

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And it works on XML
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So if your students
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if they have Kindles, this
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that was black and white --

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it was one of the first
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But these, there's another
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and Noble Nook.

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So if you have any of these
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they're digital devices that
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You want to know that
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to read these.

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And another thing too is if
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of the textbook, so if
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and your students have a digital
reader, the easiest way for them

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to see it would be
as an EPUB file.

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Another benefit is that a lot

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of times students can store
their notes on these as well.

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So it's not just for reading.

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I mean a lot of times we
think of these as being able

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to just carry around a small
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to read your book on.

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And people are, well, why
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It's way too small to see.

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The nice thing is that it's
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for students.

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they can take notes on it.

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They can look things up like
a lot of the really hard words

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that they won't understand
have definitions next to them.

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The book can be read to them.

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They can hear it read to them.

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They can take notes in it.

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There's a lot of
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that publishers are
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Ultimately it depends
on your publisher

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and how your publisher
is using the book

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and the electronic
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So I would just be aware

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that the EPUB formula
is very effective,

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but it's mostly a
digital book format.

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So if you are using
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I would definitely
give this a try

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and even tried downloading
it see what it looks like.

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How do you access this?

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You're going to access
it the same way

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as you would the other files
you would just select EPUB.

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One of the neater formats

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in my opinion is the next one
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So electronic braille is a
more of a newer invention

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because in the past only 1%

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of books have been
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And the problem with braille
is paper is really expensive

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to be printed on because the
card stock has to be very sick

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because you're looking at
students using their fingers

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to feel the dots
over and over again

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and the pages will wear out.

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Another issue is transportation
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So it takes a while to get
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and to get them into the hands
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So it takes a while
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And they're heavy because they
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So think of your -- so I
just have an example here.

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This is pretty good.

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So I have some -- so if you're
wondering what card stock that's

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used to look at Braille,
pick up some of your cards

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on your desk for yourself.

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Some of your business cards,

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and imagine a whole book
being printed out of these.

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I mean I've just got a
handful of these right now.

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And I can see that
they're a little bit heavy,

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but can you imagine
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Braille reader you see here.

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across the digital device
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sometimes the low vision format
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it's environmentally
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It's very lightweight.

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So it's a very, very
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for students if you need it.

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So, again, all you would do

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from the dropdown is you
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for the electronic
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So you may have heard of
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or just an MP4 in general.

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with your students, and
your students were looking

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They would need to access
the MP4 which is the video.

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a lot of times, you're
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that has some copyright
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to prevent people
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doesn't look those Zoom files

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that we were, that I was
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Instead, it looks a music note.

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we have Air, for example.

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to what's being spoken.

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psychology or history book,

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for example, your students
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they can listen to it.

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is they can create playlists,
and they can listen to it

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on their phones, they can
stream it in their car.

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It's pretty much endless.

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So the nice thing is that, with
the MP3, it's just another type

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of sense that you're
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we're trying to interact

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with different senses.

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So with the EPUB,
so we're looking

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at a different visual format.

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You know the same with Braille,

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So when we talk about
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like what our OER faculty staff
have done, they're talking

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about different ways to
interact with materials

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that really benefit
all students.

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So some of your students may
not be so good at reading.

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So this is one example.

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I would just select MP3

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for listening and
click download.

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I'm actually going to get
the files, so this is going

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to be the biggest
thing to download.

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they may want to consider
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And you're probably
oh, what is this?

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So the BeeLine reader is
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to help readers focus
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So the color scheme
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And I did use two
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you can see that the
left side has blue

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and purple height highlighting
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red and blue highlighting

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on a white background.

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So these are these
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Students can choose what
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it helps reduce eyestrain

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and helps break up these
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that gets students lost.

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individual words, and then find

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that main idea which
is hidden in the text.

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So how do I get this?

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Once I select BeeLine
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and then I'm going to choose
when I actually open the file.

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That's when I customize my
colors and what I want to use.

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So lastly we do have the
translated version And it works,

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as you can see, for
many languages

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from Afrikaans all the way down
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Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, Pashto,

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all kinds of different
languages.

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So what this is doing is,

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this is basically
using Google translate,

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and it's embedded
right into Blackboard.

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So it's taking all
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and it's just super
imposing a word

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from that other language
on top of it.

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So you're going to
run into some issues

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with grammatical structure,
with some of the punctuation.

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You're going to run
into plural forms,

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problems with he
and she, and so on.

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So I try it a couple of times.

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It's about 85% accurate.

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Because remember it's not
a literal translation.

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It's not professional.

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It's just run through Google.

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So Google is picking out a word.

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So it's going to pick out the
English word, and it's going

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to replace it with the
Spanish word on top of it.

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And then it goes to the
next word in English,

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and it re puts the
Spanish word on top of it.

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So it's almost you're
patching things.

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So it's like patchwork
translation.

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So you know if you're
patching walls you go

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over each piece and
you patch it.

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So that's exactly how
this is translated.

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This is not professional
by any means.

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But surprisingly,
it was pretty good.

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I found it to be
about 85% accurate.

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Now this could have been based
on the paper that I was using

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because it was using
the present tense.

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It was very simple language.

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So I tried it, I uploaded
a Spanish document,

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because I'm fluent in Spanish,

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and I tried I grabbed the
English translation --

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85% accurate.

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Then I tried it in English.

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I uploaded it in English

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and then I translated
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Same exact thing pretty much.

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So I really want to emphasize

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that the original
document doesn't have

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to be written in English.

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So this is going
to be really good.

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if you're teaching a
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or if he wants students to
interact with the texts.

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So let's say that -- let's
say you're teaching a history

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course, and you find this this
really motivational phrase,

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and it's written
in -- I don't know,

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it's written in Greek,
let's say.

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So you want your students
to translate that,

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and then describe how we can
apply that same phrase today.

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Okay, great discussion
board option.

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So how would I do that?

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They would have to translate it
because they don't know Greek.

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It's not part of the
prerequisites for the course.

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So they could use this

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to interact a little bit
more with the materials.

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You could use it for
any historical base.

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You could use it for
a literature course

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if the literature was from
a certain cultural group.

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Let's see, I could even see
it being used in culinary arts

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to describe different foods.

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So there's really a lot
of wonderful options.

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And another thing too is that
if you find that you don't want

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to use this for your
foreign language class,

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let me know, I can turn it off.

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I know that I would
not want some

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of my upper level students
using this in the past,

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so I certainly understand it.

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It's totally your class.

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I just wanted to give you a
bunch of different scenarios

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on how you would use this

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and maybe how you
wouldn't want to use it.

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How do I get to the
translated version?

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There's just another extra step.

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So I'm going to click on the
Ally icon like I always do.

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Then I'm going to select
that translated version.

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And then I have to choose the
language I want it to become.

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So in this case I'm
translating it to Afrikaans.

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I would click download, and
then I would get the document

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in Afrikaans.

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So today what we've looked
at is we've looked at a lot

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of the different types
of Ally documents.

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So I'm just going to run
through them one more time.

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So what I've done is
I've really focused

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on the different
types of documents.

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And I just want to summarize
now how you can use them

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in your classes.

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So, again we looked
at the tagged PDF.

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And this is mostly
for screen reading.

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And this is a way that you
can still keep scanned PDFs

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in your course.

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So I know PDFs

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in the accessibility world
have some challenges,

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but the tags are a
very good solution

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for you and your students.

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Okay, so HTML, everybody
remembers

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that this is a very basic
form of the internet.

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And this is a really
good formatting option.

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If your students are using a
mobile device, the EPUB is good,

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if your students have
a digital textbook

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and if they're using one of
those digital book readers.

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We also have the
electronic Brille

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which is a good alternative
to Braille textbooks.

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We have MP3s which are
just simple audio files

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where students can make
playlists out of them,

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if they have reading issues,

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or if they find reading
exceptionally challenging.

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BeeLine reader also
addresses student reading,

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but it helps students
focus on individual words

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so that they can
extract the main idea.

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And then, of course, we
have the translated version.

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Okay. Now I also --
finally I do want to mention

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that this product is
Blackboard product

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but it is not exclusive
to Blackboard.

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This is noted or
this is classified

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as accessibility software, so we
could easily subscribe to Ally

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and use it inside
of Brightspace.

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So, again, you know it
is a Blackboard product,

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but being accessibility
software.

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we could easily purchase this

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and use the same features
inside of Brightspace.

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So that's why you're
probably I know some

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of you are wondering
we're switching

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over to Brightspace soon.

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Why are we talking
about Blackboard?

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So I just want to
clarify and explain why.

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And, again, this is a really
good time to start looking

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at your classes and
improving them before we have

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to transfer everything over.

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So as always, if you guys
have questions please reach

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out to distance learning

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and I hope you have a
wonderful rest of the day.