Monday, November 06, 2006
A succesful bid
A succesful bid
Ian Gilhespy made a bid to the Higher Education Assistive Technology Scheme (HEAT) run by the Higher Education Subject Network for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism. The scheme allows lecturers in relevant subject areas to bid for money with which to buy technology. The technology has to be used to design and develop learning materials for students with disabilities. The scheme is supported by the JISC TechDis project
Ian's project title is ‘The Development of Reusable Learning Objects for the Disabled Student’
The aims of the project are as follows:
i) to produce learning objects relevant to the study of leisure, outdoor adventure and sports development with enhanced visual materials;
ii) to liaise with visually and aurally impaired students concerning the design of RLOs; specific to their learning requirements (including the adaptation of existing RLOs accordingly);
iii) to explore the scope for the software in the production of innovative educational materials and approaches.
The bid was successful and Ian has now acquired a Canon DC-100 DVD Camcorder w/ 2.7" Widescreen, 25x Optical Zoom and a Panasonic FZ7 6MP Digital Camera 12x Optical Zoom 2.5" LCD, 512MB Case & Charger
Dave Harris
