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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

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have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It doesn’t cover movies.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Movie nights. Host a virtual peer-to-peer fundraiser movie night! John Center media throughout the year. Social fundraisers.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Even though their movies and patents were not covered by the treaty draft, they were concerned the Treaty might be a bad precedent for them.

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The importance of Sandboxes and Play in online learning spaces!

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During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. It allowed us to play and get comfortable with the discussion software, faciliplay exercises, and other areas that participants wanted to explore like the audio as online conversation. I used MovieMaker in Windows.

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My Learnings from the Boston Media Makers Meeting

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I met a lot of fantastic videobloggers as well as learned a lot through the discussion on production values facilitated by David Tames. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

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Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work.