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Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition – Open Textbook
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Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition – Open Textbook
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The goal of this accessibility toolkit, 2nd edition, is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students. This is a collaboration between BCcampus, Camosun College, and CAPER-BC.

Subject:
Communication
Education
Educational Technology
Higher Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
BCcampus
Provider Set:
BCcampus Open Textbooks
Author:
Amanda Coolidge
Josie Gray
Sue Doner
Tara Robertson
Date Added:
01/22/2020
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Bias in the Media -- Video Essay
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Bias in the Media -- Video Essay
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Students will build sensory awareness enhancing their perception and personal connections to the theme of race, power, and privilege in their community.  Students will take notes, build background knowledge, and begin to determine which types of media messages are reliable sources of information. They will research what form of media campaign most inspires them to act on an issue in 2019-20. Students develop media-literacy connections to further inquiry and investigate topics that stimulate their curiosity. The final product will be a 3-minute video essay. 

Subject:
Communication
Journalism
Film and Music Production
Composition and Rhetoric
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Diane Walker
Date Added:
08/05/2019
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Public Speaking
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Public Speaking
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The course is an introduction to the preparation and delivery of oral presentations in an extemporaneous style. Emphasis is on ethical research, critical and logical analysis, and organization of informative and persuasive presentations.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Lumen Learning
Provider Set:
Candela Courseware
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: 1, 2, 3
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Teach Design: 1, 2, 3
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This is a partner activity that gets learners to practice the skill of being resilient in the face of failure. We often hear the phrase “celebrate mistakes,” but we rarely give people the chance to practice that skill. This is also a great game to get people connected and having fun.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Game
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Collective Capital
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design : 30 Circles
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Teach Design : 30 Circles
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Participants get a piece of paper with 30 circles on it. In one minute, they have to use as many of circles as they can to create different drawings. A stop sign, a planet, a smiley face, etc.
The goal of this exercise is to encourage spontaneity and remove judgement from ideas. The goal is to get participants to bring their idea to life right when they come up with it, which differs from our habit of judging our ideas as non-original or no-good before we even say them.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Sabrina Trinkner
SAP
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: A Few of my Favorite Things
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Teach Design: A Few of my Favorite Things
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A Few of my Favorite Things is a game that challenges participants to say their favorite thing as fast as they can that fits in a prompted category. This activity is about spontaneity and speed, not about getting things perfect. It is about building energy, warming up the mind, getting to know one another, and casting aside the part of our brains that judge whether ideas are perfect.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Game
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Collective Capital
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Brainstorm Relay
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Brainstorm Relay is a rapid yet structured way to brainstorm multiple categories of ideas or to build on clusters of ideas in a team. Starting with one category, each team member will silently generate as many ideas (one idea per post-it) as she can for just that category. After x minutes, she will move to the next category and repeat.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Rachel Chung
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design : Build a Machine
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Teach Design : Build a Machine
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This improv classic is a great stoke for groups, and is often used in during the prototyping or ideation phase so participants can practice building on the ideas of others.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Ward Bullard
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Build to Think
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Build to Think and its corresponding worksheet are intended to help learners solve problems visually and tangibly. This tool can be utilized to prototype anything from life challenges to project challenges. It demonstrates the value of stepping back and gaining a new perspective as participants navigate their work/life's biggest challenges, and also, how asking helpful questions and paying attention to the right things will help them see more clearly and take next steps with greater confidence.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Experience Institute
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: CoCap Matrix
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The Cocap Matrix is a structured way to brainstorm with your team that allows you to focus on multiple user needs that you have identified. This is a matrix with two axes, and based on your project, you can label these axes to your liking.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Creating How Might We Questions
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“How might we” (HMW) questions are short questions that launch brainstorms. HMWs are seeds for your ideation that fall out of your point-of-view statement, design principles, or insights. Create a seed that is broad enough that there are a wide range of solutions but narrow enough that the team is provoked to think of specific, unique ideas.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Stanford d.school
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Empathy Story Swap
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Teach Design: Empathy Story Swap
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This improv activity primes students to be attentive listeners. It challenges them to listen, observe, and absorb everything from tone of voice, to hand gestures, to the plot of a story. Finally, it shows how personal stories are a powerful tool to establish a connection between individuals. This can be used to prime students before they head into the empathy phase of a design cycle.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Game
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Collective Capital
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Evidence Based Observation
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Project a photo of a scenario in which there is some action, but it’s not entirely clear what’s happening. As a group, discuss several possibilities for what might be happening and why based on the specific details, or evidence, within the photo.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Shelley Williamson
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Gift Giving Warm-Up
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Teach Design: Gift Giving Warm-Up
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In this activity partners hand each other imaginary gifts, open them, and justify why they are the perfect gifts. This improv activity gets teammates to practice sharing control, being generous, and building on each other’s ideas.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Game
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Austin Meyer
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Hand Sketch for Digital Prototype
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Teach Design: Hand Sketch for Digital Prototype
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Many solutions that students propose are digital experiences. While a learner’s impulse might be to start coding the software, encourage them to prototype in a lower-fidelity way before letting them jump to code. The lowest fidelity prototype is a paper prototype, drawing out the interface, and putting these pieces of paper in front of users. There are also many, slightly higher fidelity, tools that allow users to interact with their interface on a phone/computer, without needing to build out the code.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Laura Pickel
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: Harvest and Share
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Teach Design: Harvest and Share
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This exercise takes a fundamental principle of improvisation — noticing and responding to one’s partner moment-to-moment — and adapts it to advance the social-emotional learning goals of a group. It involves observation and positive interpretation of others.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Jude Trederwolff
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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Teach Design: How to Collect Feedback from Students (Written)
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Teach Design: How to Collect Feedback from Students (Written)
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Collecting quick, written feedback from students on a daily basis helps provide guidance on how to improve the class performance. A space to sketch their feelings/feedback helps offer an alternative to written word. Works well in large classes and with large groups of introverts.

Subject:
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Teach Design
Author:
Ward Bullard
Date Added:
02/16/2018
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