ILP #2 - "Participation" - Accesibility Lab

Here are some notes from our class trip to the accesibility lab at FSU. It's a short description of what we did, mostly.

The first example of asistive technology were the various devices, and products for blind people. I thought the printed anatomy books were especially amazing. I have a friend with severe disabilities in his eyes, and he uses similar technology, and it made me extremely happy to see these products available for all the students.

I found the comprehensive nature of the technology lab to be really awe-inspiring, and I think that it really showed me that FSU has no problem putting out top dollar for their students to have every resource available to them. It made me extremely proud to be a student here.

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I personally like the idea of a flipped classroom. It seems like a really interesting way to flip the formula of the classroom. It also seems that it could be a new way forward for teaching that allows teachers to be in the classrooms for the most crucial part of the student's learning process; the part where they really wrestle with the material.

Here's a video of a couple teachers explaining why they "flipped" their classroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc

I really like the idea of Open Resources as well. I think that the textbook industry is absolutely inflated, and that the public education system suffers because of this. This means that the people get taxed more, and our government struggles to provide a quality education to our children because of one industries base greed. Its great to see a way out of that.

The hyperlink and actions feature, as well as the insert audio tab are new skills I learned from these assignments are awesome. I wish I was better at making the slides more aestehtically pleasing. Some of the pictures were ugly, but I enjoyed putting together the quiz and lessons.