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AdapTech Insider - Volume 31 |
AdapTech Insider - Volume 31
Empowerment Through Technology
A Flying Blind, LLC Publication
http://www.flying-blind.com
Greetings,
Flying Blind, LLC at the 27th Annual CSUN Conference
For those of you planning to attend California State University Northridge's 27th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, from February 27 through March 3, at the beautiful Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California, Flying Blind, LLC invites you to attend a number of activities in which we will be contributing this year:
Flying Blind, LLC's Founder, Mr. Larry Lewis, will be involved in a variety of workshops and product sessions throughout the week with the common theme of these presentations revolving around various non-visual strategies for accessing and manipulating iOS devices.
2/27, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, "Unveiling Strategies for Affective Access to Apple Devices", Gregory AB
On Monday, February 27, Lewis, along with Matt Ater of G&B Solutions Inc. (www.gbsolutionsinc.com), a business associate and good friend of Lewis, will be conducting a day-long pre-conference workshop titled "Unveiling Strategies for Affective Access to Apple Devices", 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, located in Gregory AB. This comprehensive session will focus on all of the various access components of Apple's iOS devices, and offer practical methods for service providers to incorporate this mainstream approach to portable access into their client's adaptive technology journeys.
3/1, 1:50 PM, "Access Improvements To Touch Screen Devices", Molly AB
On Thursday, March 1, Lewis will be partnering with his colleague Greg Stilson from HumanWare Inc. (www.humanware.com) to present a General Session titled: "Access Improvements To Touch Screen Devices", 1:50 PM, located in Molly AB. This presentation discusses the process and advantages of incorporating wireless, refreshable Braille access when using iOS devices within both educational and employment settings.
2/29, 3/1, 3/2, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, "Is 12 Cells Enough?", Aroga Suite
Last but not least, Lewis and Steve Barclay, Vice President of Sales for Aroga Technologies (www.aroga.com) will be hosting three sessions within the Aroga Suite titled: "Is 12 Cells Enough?". Each session will begin at 4:00 PM and conclude around 5:30 PM and will run Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. These three sessions are face to face, hands-on workshops based on the recent webinars hosted by Lewis and Barclay that illustrate the power and mobility of portable, refreshable Braille access to iOS devices in a variety of settings. These sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please e-mail training@flying-blind.com or call (216) 381-8107 to reserve your space today.
The CSUN Conference is traditionally a venue for excitement around innovation within the adaptive technology industry, and Flying Blind, LLC is very excited to be a contributing force in unveiling that innovation this year at CSUN 2012. Until CSUN, have a great week and and travel safe!
AdapTech Insider - Volume 30 |
AdapTech Insider - Volume 30
Empowerment Through Technology
A Flying Blind, LLC Publication
http://www.flying-blind.com
Greetings,
Are You An Adaptive Technology Trainer? Flying Blind, LLC Invites You to Join us by Donating 10 Minutes of Your Time.
Flying Blind, LLC is currently involved in a number of adaptive technology training initiatives designed to optimize adaptive technology training service delivery on a national level. It is our continuing mission at Flying Blind, LLC to provide all vision impaired persons with the necessary products, information, and services that will make their adaptech journey as fulfilling as possible.
We feel strongly that the only way to do this is to solicit input from those of you who are already adaptive technology trainers. Only with feedback from those of you who already provide this exemplary service can we hope to attain the type of direction we require to move forward on a number of national training projects which are currently in play.
We invite those of you that are currently providing adaptive technology training services, as well as those of you that have provided these services in the past, to donate 10 minutes of your time in completing the enclosed survey.
All responses are 100% confidential, and, should you choose to provide your name, email address, and the State in which you reside, you will be strongly considered as a potential resource for both Flying Blind, LLC and its partners as we become more involved in trainer procurement to provide what may become the most comprehensive and exemplary adaptive technology training initiative our industry has ever offered on a National basis. Excited? So are we. And we look forward to hearing what you've got to say.
Flying Blind, LLC Survey For Adaptive Technology Trainers:
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e5jk5hapgxy903g3/start
AdapTech Insider - Volume 29 |
AdapTech Insider - Volume 29
Empowerment Through Technology
A Flying Blind, LLC Publication
http://www.flying-blind.com
Greetings,
Flying Blind, LLC Launches Apple Accessibility Initiative (AAI)
In the interest of expanding our service offerings Flying Blind, LLC will be kicking off 2012 by launching the Apple Accessibility Initiative, or AAI, which is a series of on-site, scalable, and customizable professional development training seminars designed to provide educators of students who are vision impaired with the tools necessary to provide access solutions via mobile iOS-based products within the classroom. Over the past couple of years Apple has done an amazing job of marketing its products to the educational sector of the marketplace. Their approach to providing integrated access via screen magnification, speech, and Braille have afforded vision impaired users comparable access to much of what today's sighted users of mainstream applications have to offer.
As 2011 came to a close Flying Blind, LLC was made aware of a profound need amongst educators of the vision impaired to explore how to appropriately turn Apple touch screen devices into solutions that would enable vision impaired students to independently and efficiently complete tasks within the classroom. The Apple Accessibility Initiative, or AAI, will present educators with all of the integrated access tools available within the Apple operating system, or iOS, as well as a blueprint for how to search for, install, utilize, and maintain all of the appropriate applications necessary to transform these devices into low-cost alternatives to more expensive, traditional means of portable information management.
These fee-based training seminars will be spearheaded by Flying Blind, LLC's founder, Mr. Larry L. Lewis. Lewis has over 32 years of experience with adaptive technology, and has served in international product and sales management, direct service provision, and curriculum development capacities for many of the adaptech industry's leading solution providers.
"I'm excited to be driving such an initiative..." states Lewis. "Integrating adaptive media, methodologies, and new user interfaces into the educational market has always been a passion of mine. No matter what any of us think or want to happen, Apple's not going anywhere, so we might as well learn how to use, flourish, succeed, and even enjoy using their products. Educators have come to me over the past year or so both excited and frustrated that so many of these iOS products are being dumped into their classrooms and they are being given directives to use these devices, yet they're still truly thirsting to learn how to integrate them into their educational plans without taking months of their own time to accomplish this somewhat arduous undertaking."
The Apple Accessibility Initiative (AAI) provided by Flying Blind, LLC offers proven, concise, and focused training which costs only a small fraction of the amount of both time and money that most educators will spend trying to make sense of this robust, cutting-edge, and portable adaptech alternative.
Participants in the Apple Accessibility Initiative (AAI) will achieve the following:
The Apple Accessibility Initiative (AAI) already has a number of trainings scheduled for the first quarter of 2012. For more information about pricing and scheduling this in-service for your school district or group of educators, please email AAI@flying-blind.com or call +1 (216) 381-8107. Please note that the Apple Accessibility Initiative is not sponsored by Apple or any other for-profit manufacturer of adaptive technology solutions. This series of seminars was designed specifically for professional development purposes by Larry L. Lewis. Let Flying Blind, LLC help you unleash the power of iOS in 2012!
