Accessibility



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> //a. CHOOSE ONE social media, for example//: podcasts, blogs, wikis, social networking, social tagging, VoiceThread, geotagging, Twitter, etc. > //b. CHOOSE ONE learning challenge, for example//: language issues, blindness, low vision, color-blindness, deafness, inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited fine motor control, and cognitive issues such as learning disabilities, distractibility, inability to remember or focus on large amounts of information, etc.
 * == ARTICLE REQUIREMENTS == ||
 * * Your wiki article is to be short, but substantive. Give it some meat. Say something useful. Your article for our class wiki is not to be a list.
 * Don't summarize a selection of items you found online. You can't write something meaningful if you create a list and write a couple of sentences about each list item.
 * Contribute **new material** about education/learning related issues concerning 'disabilities **and** social media'
 * Focus your article . Write 200 - 400 words about it.
 * You do not have to use APA formatting, but you must clearly credit work that is not your own.
 * 1) Choose **ONE learning challenge** and **ONE social media**, for example Distractibility and Podcasting, or Low Vision and Blogging, etc.
 * 1) Describe why a disabled person would benefit from using the social media that you selected.
 * 2) Describe the barriers that the disabled person would face trying to use the social media you selected.
 * 3) Describe how a disabled person would be able to get beyond these barriers. This may involve assistive technologies, or assistance from another student, the teacher or an assistant.
 * 4) Credit your information source(s).
 * 5) Tag your article with descriptive key words so that it will show up in the tag cloud below.
 * 6) **Be sure to link your contribution in the contributor's list** - so that your work can be graded. ||


 * Click EDIT to edit pages in this wiki.**
 * **//To// ADD //a// // new article topic//**
 * 1) Enter the topic name and your name in the table below**.**
 * 2) Then click **"New Page"** in the upper left.[[image:web4alllearners/gnome-accessibilitylogo.png align="right" caption="gnome-accessibilitylogo.png"]]
 * 3) **Save your page**.
 * 4) Return to the table on the Section page.
 * 5) Click Edit.
 * 6) Enter your article topic in the table.
 * 7) Click the Link icon.
 * 8) Click "use an existing page" next to Page Name.
 * 9) Your article page will appear in the pages dropdown list.
 * 10) Select it and click Add Link.
 * **//To// EDIT //an existing topic//**
 * 1) Click the article name (link) in the table below.
 * 2) Then click edit, to edit or add to the article.
 * Be sure to add your name to the table below in the Editor(s) column too.
 * **// REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR WORK! //**

Becca Friedman ||  || Kelli Jones ||  ||
 * || **Article Topic** || **First Author** || **Editor(s)** || **More**
 * Editor(s)** || **Even More Editors** ||
 * || Student-Built Technology Helping Low Vision Students || Audrey Watters || Allyson Allen ||  ||   ||
 * || ADHD and Blogging || Reham Eid ||  ||   ||   ||
 * =  ||= **Articles** ||=   ||=   ||   ||   ||
 * 1 || Exemple Article //(The ** Actual article ** is **By Christina Banzon)**// || Christina Banzon || Carmin Karasic ||   ||   ||
 * 2 || VoiceThread and Learning Disabilities  || Melanie Pavlides || Jara Naquin, ||   ||   ||
 * 3 || Anxiety and Social Networking || Judy Kress || Andrew Walsh || Barb Tennyson
 * 4 || Social Networking and Blindness || Sarah Padilla || Jessica Goosen ||  ||   ||
 * 5 || Text Readers Text-to-Speech Readers for People with Learning Disabilities || Samantha Oxendine || Mary Comer ||  ||   ||
 * 6 || Cerebral Palsy and Blogging || Theresa Merchant ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Cerebral palsy and the Camera Mouse ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 7 || Deafness and vodcasting || Kristi Stoverud || Pandora Williams ||  ||   ||
 * 8 || Executive Functioning and Web 2.0 || Ashley Dowse || Andrew Luman ||  ||   ||
 * 9 || Visually Impaired and Screen Readers || Amie Hammonds ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 10 || Podcasting and Learning Needs || Jessica Austin || Mac Jackson ||  ||   ||
 * 11 || Visual Impairment and Websites || Amanda Johnson || Robert Alway ||  ||   ||
 * 12 || Blogging and Written Expression Disability || Mary Katherine Pursley ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 13 || Glogster and Learning Disabilities (and visual impairments) || Jayson Aviles ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 14 || Hearing Impaired, ESL, and Closed Captioning || Jayne Sawtelle || Nick Biggs ||  ||   ||
 * 15 || Advantages of Web 2.0 in Schools || Chad Waters ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 16 || Deafness and Youtube || Jeff Mace || **Gerald Boardman** ||  ||   ||
 * 17 || Dysgraphia and Assistive Technology || Tiffany Hill ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 18 || Using Tablets for Students with Handwriting Disabilities || Kate Jenkins || Lauren Drosos ||  ||   ||
 * 19 || Verbal Apraxia and Social Networking || Sheila Lewis ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 20 || Slow Processing Speed and Social Networking || Diane Taylor (Strand) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 21 || Autism and Blogging || Kendra Bailey || Kaitlyn Santos || Becca Friedman
 * 22 || Vlogging and Phsycial Disabilities || Jennifer Paradise ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 23 || @Autism and Facebook || Liz Atwood || Nicole Bagg || Karen Lemmon ||  ||
 * 24 || Executive Function Disorders and Pinterest || Zack Allen ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 25 || Mobile Technology to Assist the Visually Impaired || Tera Ingraham ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 26. || Autism Spectrum Disorder and Skype || Lauren Loffredo ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 27. || Twitter and Accessibility || Twitter.com || Lori Jones ||  ||   ||




 * 28. Facebook and Sign Language || BBC.com || Kyle Terry ||   ||
 * 29. Deafness and Audio podcasts ||  || Eric Ahern ||   ||