 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. All right. My name is Alicia Dunan. I am from Community College, San Diego Community College, continuing yet. And I am also now a OTAN subject matter expert. I just want to know, I can't even remember what it is. Anyway, welcome. I'm very excited to share this information with you all, something that I've done for many years with the district. All right, so here, welcome all. So just I already did my introduction, but if you want, because we have a lot of people here, if you want to say where you're from, we have a few minutes. Introduce yourself, what department, and what brought you here today. How about that? If you want to go around, let's start with you real quick. Hi, I'm Diane, I'm a fellow instructor at the same district as Alisa. What brought me here is I'm the OER coordinator, but I'm very, very interested in accessibility for my students. I teach ESL, so accessibility is really important, because I teach online. My name is Chun-Hee Mek-Nee, and I come from Corvus or Dr. Education, and I'm a nursing program director there. And I'm the only news in the CTE program. News is a lot of technology. And this year, I joined the D-LOC two years in big commitment, so it was one of those things that I'm only getting to come here and present. No. I know. Now I can relax because I did it yesterday, and I get it. So yes, I think the TDLS is the best thing that ever happened seven years ago. And I think the D-LOC is going to teach you a lot. And we, moving our CTE, especially nursing and health ally, moving toward the technology, instead of paying them taxes. Very good. Hello, everyone. My name is Chris Belachie. And I am an instructor beginning ESL instructor. And I also work for SDCCE. And Veracosta College. And because I teach a beginning class, tech skills for beginning learners, as you may know, are a little more at a beginning level. So I'm here to learn anything that you have here for me to help for students, beginner ESL students. Hi, I'm Christy Reyes. I'm also a Veracosta ESL faculty. And I'm here to see all my friends. I've been coming to TDLS for as long as I can remember. So it's good to see everybody. And I'm always wanting to learn a girl. So that's why I'm here. Hi, everybody. My name is Larissa Stephen. I'm from Monterey, Minnesota Unified School District for the school. And I'm an ESL teacher. And this is my first time at OTAM. And I'm a graduate. Hi, I'm Veronica Parker. And I'm a fourth major representing the CEP technical systems project. My college is at the NIP, and I'm a digital equity technical assistant and I'm headed for Dubai. And so we're looking for tools and resources for students to share with us this week. So you're going to find an ESL teacher in the funding of the ESL tool or app of the ESL tool. And I'm here to learn that you're bringing as much information as you can from that recent one. And what's your favorite seasons also? Yeah, right. We can do that in a chat. Oh, yeah. Hi. I'm a winter sports person. Hi. Hi. OK. I'll just be so honest with you. Perfect. We'll do another point on that one. I know we have a lot of stuff. OK. My name is Katrina Tamura. And I teach at Mericlista College and Palomar College. I teach in non-credit ESL. And this is important because it's always going to be. And so I think it's just important to keep showing up, learning, and applying things, new things in the classroom. So we will see you. Hi, everyone. My name is Mariana Sofa. I teach ESL at Mericlista as well for a bigger group here. I always want to learn and connect with our colleagues. There is always nice to learn new things, but also refresh, because there's so much data that sometimes it's nice to refresh or validation of what you're doing. And my baby season is summer. It's just so nice in the summer. I'm Linda Pantowski. I teach ESL basic at Tunnelpies Adox School in Marin. This is my first year. And I've taught ESL to kids. And in public schools in Richmond and Oakland. But the teaching adults is new. And it's amazing. I'm loving it. But it's very challenging and bringing technology and the basic literacy level, like you say, is really challenging. And I'm also supporting a CTE class in health care aid. My name is Rebecca Clampett. I'm from Coronadarco Unified School District. I'm a ESL teacher on multiple levels. And what brought me here today was the warmer weather, no, it's good. What brought me here initially is Candace. I wanted to learn about Candace. And finding out it's going to take 10 hours on board. And I kind of shifted. And I've been taking classes that I can apply and do something for my classroom tomorrow or Monday. So I've shifted over and learned it's doing the online games and the digital games and loving it, so. My name's Ellen Jackson. I'm an ESL teacher from Huntington Beach and Old School. I am here, of course, like everyone, to learn more so that we can grow, be able to use it in my classroom and also be able to share online and colleagues. Thank you. I'm Dr. Linda Volcaba. I'm the administrator of educational technology for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. That's a long way of saying I have responsibility for bringing tech to 33 institutions where our learners may not have even seen a lot of top in about 30 years. So this particular course is interesting to me because my most recent experience is with a 68-year-old student who didn't know what a mouse was and did not know how to use a trackpad. And so just bringing them from that very, very early concept of I've never had this device and never used this device to understand when they leave us, this is the bus schedule. This is the telemedicine. This is the banking and giving them the digital literacy skill thing to not become a guest again. This is my home. Yes. Yes. My name's Erica, I'm a resource teacher and this is what I'm used to in the local education. And this is one of the biggest challenges in the teachers I support, getting students familiar with the technology so they can access the Google classrooms and so on. Hi, I'm Jennifer Hanson. I'm with Grossman Adult Education in San Diego. Second question is a lot. Yeah, we can do that one. I wouldn't be here at all today if it wasn't for my amazing administrator, my director, that is why we're here. She gave us this opportunity to be part of VLAC and TVLS and obviously to bring it to our students and to our other teachers. Favorite season, I love cool weather, so this is awesome. Is that the only one that likes cool weather? Yeah. I see all the cool weather. Let's go. I'm with the director of ESL at Grossman Adult and Jennifer's full of it because she would be here on her own if I hadn't talked about it. But my favorite season, when it's wintertime or when it's summer, I wish it was winter. So that's the one in between. But we're just having a weekend. I'm bringing a real line. I'm from La Soledad Arena Pesco District, La Soledad Adult School. I am a high-set proctor, but I do that in the evenings or in the day. I'm in the office and I'm here because I want to learn more and follow the support of my teachers in the classroom so they can support the students. Hello, hi. My name is Sari Polska. I teach high-set in Spanish and English for La Soledad Adult School. What we brought to you here is, well, we're getting ready to kind of move from paper base because our students are so used to paper to computers. But we need to get them into that of computer literacy. And my favorite season is summer because I have a lot of free time. I'm not going to let that work. I'm not going to let that work. Oh, I thought I'd sneak in. Sydney Morkowski, hi, everybody. It's so nice to. Oh, and I'm working part-time for OTAN, a former ESO teacher, and supporting here, supporting me, too. And it's nice to network with everybody. I love spring. Garden is starting to flourish. I love that kind of thing. And I'm Marie Doerner. I work for San Diego community. I don't know what we're called now. San Diego College of Continuing Education. Keep changing our name a little bit. Trying to figure out what is adult ed and what should be a better name for it. So right now, we're College of Continuing Education. I'm a learning disability specialist, and I teach race ed to folks. And I'm the resource specialist for students in regular classes. My name's Joy Colo. I also work for SBCE. I teach a class, a communication class. And I know that you asked me. What's your favorite season? Oh, that's my favorite. OK, I'm going to say summer, because we have a pool, so I get to go to the pool. That's cool. I was going to say spring, but I do like the summer. The other thing is, I remember you all asked me, do you need a computer? There's a couple things that we can use on the computer, but if you don't, it's OK. I do have the. OK, so what we're going to learn today. Tips that we're going to focus on. Because it is digital learning, OK? Just the basics. We're going to go on keyboards, one-click mouse, touch screens, mouse pointer settings, and immersive reader tool. Maybe this is too basic, but I will show you some tips that we've learned. And we just did another one prior to this, and we kind of went over that. So similar to, but here we go. So five tips, here we go. So keyboards. This information is designed to work with a desktop or a laptop or standalone monitor for learners who may need access. And an educator could try these following ideas. So these are examples of different types of keyboards. Now, obviously, if you are in a lab and we have these keyboards, you could switch it out, OK? Now, if you have labs that have laptops, you know you can get an exterior one. So it's workable. Now, I was listening to you. I am saying you said, I'm 68-year-old. Do you know what a mouse was or the keyboard? Now, vision, this is perfect because you can see it. Now, you have a variety of types that you want. When I was in my site closed down because of COVID, but I had assorted colors. And some, let's say, you preferred this one, but Christy really liked this. Some like this because the colors are the high-hit notes or high-hit letters. So all of them have different whatever you want. So here's an example of what. So when we are in our labs, I would also have staff from this agency helping. Now, what I noticed was that some staff preferred these better than one of those. So these are just something I do have a website that you can look at. You can Google these. These are called? I think it's just a little problem. Yeah. Are you larger? We're trying to compare those. Oh, yeah, oh, we can have some. Probably, there's a prominent. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. There's a little bit of plastic here, something. Or probably plastic, of course. She had all the others. So you can also, now the things that I'm going to talk about, so we call these big re-keyboards. Yeah, so they come in different colors. And I'm going to put this over. Also, remember the stickers. Yeah, I think that's the next one we have. So I'm going to go over that one and just read this. So the great thing about this, you don't have to have. This can help with vision. Now, how many of you wear readers when you're typing? So, I mean, and when you're typing and you're in your own keyboard, you don't have to have these. You can have just this keyboard. Does that make it easier for you? Yeah. And also, for seniors who are new coming onto this, this is so much easier. It's more accessible. So they're going to feel positive. So that's kind of one of the great things about that. OK, so that's an easy read. So here's another thing. I'll talk about the F5 button. So this is an educator can click the F5 on their PC, their laptop. This gives an option for the keyboard to light up. And it's called the backlight. Do any of you know what that backlight is? Have you ever used it? OK, I see some shaking in your heads. So try to, if you don't know, you can, I was going to say, let's try it. But write it down, the backlight. Know where that's at. Because on some keyboards, it'll be nice. I prefer it because I like to see my letters lit up. My husband doesn't like it, and that's fine. I personally like to see more things. I just like it, so that works for me. So this is another little tip that's right in there. If you don't know where to find it, go on your toolbar and go under Settings, then you should have something that will say backlight. So that's kind of a nice one. Some people like it, some people don't. You may not have the F5, it may not be on yours, but go under Settings and look for a backlight. OK, so the big keys. That's exactly what I was talking about, the big keys. Now, this is the one I prefer, because I like the yellow with the black. That's me, personally. But that's, you know, you don't have to have that. So again, see how that yellow stands out a little bit more than just something to look at, something different. Alicia, does it have anything to do with vision? Vision? It can. I mean, if you are having vision problems, now some people, maybe the yellow is a distraction for that. So then you want me to stop. So I think my next one, I'll show you the keys. So here we go. The keys is a visually friendly keyboard, which can be purchased for learners who are visually challenged or need easier reading access, because I can be visually challenged at midnight. This also helps with finger dexterity issues, tremors, arthritis, or CP anymore, because you can see it easier, right? And the keys are bigger. Well, you'll see this one's bigger. All right, the color schemes come in certain colors also. So you have white, yellow, black, and then the colors are in different colors also. What I did, again, I have a personal preference, but that doesn't mean that you like that one. So I'll make sure I have two of each sorted out so everyone can have their own choice. All right, here's the stickers. So here's another way of doing that. This is what. So an alternative to purchasing these or purchasing this would be a sticker. OK, these you can buy on Amazon. You can go into AbleNet, any of these catalogs, and you can choose what kind you want. So you would just attach it right on there. Yes, do any of those have uppercase with a smaller lower case on the same key because they don't always. Right, I only see these in the uppercase because it would be just mimicking your keyboard. That would be hard. And that would be on a key. That would distract me because I use lower case more than I use uppercase. Right. And amazing, as you said that, we had discovered that. And I was in another workshop with saying that when you're writing your name, you need space. A lot of our students didn't know what the space was. So in all our computers in our lab, we devised like a red dot, and that meant the space. So we had come up with these different things of meaning what we wanted for them. So yes, and also, again, making sure that we have everyone, we also have keyboards with Braille, and there's also keyboards with Braille stickers. So you can order them with Braille stickers also. So just making sure you have everything. And again, the other great thing about these, because we had a lab, I had a Braille keyboard. I would just pop it in when that student, I needed them by student. So making sure we're hitting all modes, all learners. Okay, just my next one. So the one click mouse. Now, I also noticed when we were doing our labs, because we have these with the scroll and the basic one, right? We all know what we're talking about that. But if you're someone who's like, I just want to do it. So what happens? What happens when they're using these mouse? If you don't know how to use a mouse, who knows what type of buttons you're getting. They're into another land, right? That's not good. So to be a little bit more, to make it more successful, this is the one click mouse. And this is what we have used on many a student, many learners. So great for working with learners who were challenged again with dexterity and mouse control. And this mouse is just a basic one click and go, which I like, that's very simple, okay? And this is a stepping stone to the conventional mouse, okay, that doesn't mean, oh, I'm doomed. I can only be on this. Absolutely not, you can go on other routes. So this is an option. This is so much, it's so successful versus the scroll. That scroll thing is just, so that's why we had, and again, if I was in the lab, I could just pop it in and take it out. Because I've noticed that with happy hands going all over, take things away, why put them out, right? I see a lot of head nodding. That's what I had discovered, take it away. All right, here's the next thing. I think almost now everything is a touch screen. How many of you have touch screens in your labs or a lot probably? Okay, well that's, okay, we have touch screens, but we had to buy them and put them on. So this is how old they were. But it's still good. So the learner can just use a touch on an icon on the screen with the finger and go, okay? So we like that. This can be very empowering for a learner to proceed with the activity by themselves, which we all know, right? Some computers already have touch screens already included. Now, you're saying, what are they doing? It sounds like someone had asked me, I have very low learners. Okay, so the touch screen's gonna be great because you can put them on a matching day and you can find, there are adults, because that's what we work with, that you can find adult matching gates on them. And if not, you can make them. It's a particular work, but you can do it. And they like it. So the best thing, sometimes you might want to work by yourself or you might want to choose people that you might want to work with a buddy. The other thing is because of what we do, we also ask them to start telling them, describing what is it. So, they can have communication. So if you're ESL, you can sit, what is this? You can make one on kitchen and have them match it with the word, however you want, a lot of great matching. So the touch screen is something that I really liked. The other thing, I think I have the next one. Like I said, so it's the use of a stylist. I didn't bring one, I forgot that. But you all know what a stylist is. So some of the stylists now, if you're working with someone who is arthritic, you know that you can pump it up, right? You can make it bigger. So think about that now. What are some tools that you can use? You can use the, do you remember the pencil? The little, the gripper on the pencil? You can use that to make it a little bit bigger. Now, if I'm very arthritic and you can use a piece of material, I like to use a small washcloth because of the texture of the cotton and you can wrap it around and that makes it bigger because if you're arthritic and you can't close your hands, there you go. But there's also, you can probably go to any of those orthotic places and buy that. I'm just saying working in a place with low budget, you know what I'm saying? Come up with different ideas. So that's one thing that we did. And you know what? Some of them really like the stylus because you can even kind of fancy, you know, not within budget reasons, you know what I'm saying? So some, some like to use it. It's a tool for the touchscreen. And again, you can adapt it. So some racism. So, and you can see now this is pretty tiny. We've had, I'm not kidding. We've adapted a stylus that was very big. We added like another something to it because that's, if you are having problems gripping it, look at that, it's not gonna happen. And what if you are sitting here and you want to, and you're in a wheelchair, are you gonna be able to do it? You gotta get, you know, so that's why you need to be extended. It's almost like a wand. So you're gonna have to have that. So again, look and see what your learner needs and just adapt it. You know, I think we're so grateful working at sites that don't have a lot of money that you become very resourceful. Yeah, you become very resourceful. Yes, I mean, is that a big thing? It is. I mean at least I'm able now to come up with an idea to get someone who's in a wheelchair who can't work, you know, but I can get them now to do it, right? So that's kind of something. So here's the example of the touchscreen. Again, I used the concentration game, something like that you can do. And then, oh, here's for the mouse pointer. So this would be in your settings that you would find. How many of you know there's a mouse pointer setting? Okay, so this is a great one. How's with this visual acuity concentration and dexterity? So with this one, once you get in there, this looks very complicated to me. This is like too much information. But I will tell you one of the favorite ones that my students liked is this little, I call it the Mickey Mouse hand. And you can change the color to yellow, yes? It's also really good if you're doing distance learning because if you're doing it on teams or doing it or whatever, it's really hard for people to see if the teacher is moving the mouse around. So make it much bigger than change the color. Right, and my next slide will have that. It is, it is perfect. You know what? And then you have some who don't like that. So when I had the lab, I had a variety. And they all knew which ones. After a while, they'll know which ones to go to. So yes, so take a peek in your settings and check it out. You can, you know that you can make them click or do that spiral, that dragging. To me, that's annoying. I don't like that. I'm just like, ah, talk about visual acuity after that'll happen, right? So yeah. All right, so this was if we were gonna do it. So I just put in here, locate your task bar, find the search. Well seem to be able to handle that. If not, it's in my, it'll be in the Google side. Any questions on that? So there we go. There's the example. You can pick the colors that you want. You can make it bigger. Kind of a nice thing. Nice little feature. I like it for me and I like it a little bit bigger. So when I'm looking at all my different, what, icon desktops? I just made that big point. So that's the immersive reader. How many of our, you probably all have used it, right? Okay, so I, No, can you, don't assume. Oh, okay, okay. The immersive reader. This is a great tool. It's available on everything just by yourself. Right, you're right. So yeah, sorry. Yeah. This one you have to go, I believe you in Google or because my husband has a Mac, he went under voice. It has a voice that reads out. So you have to go under tools. But this one, yes, it'll talk to you. So if you want to try it, it would be definitely in, yes, you're right, not Mac and iPad. So it's a Windows, it's in Word. And it comes, what I did in my search bar under, but it's already there now. I went in there and said, immersive reader. Once I'm in my Microsoft Word, it'll come up and there it is. You press it, you type, try, I want to test this out. It'll talk to you. The menu will come down. The good point, she just reminded me, it's also in campus. Oh yeah, that's why I'm the edit mode, right? And it's in Teams as well, because Microsoft's too busy. That's good. It's great that it's in campus. How many of you use Canvas for everyone? Does students read? Great. Now, I understand as far as our department for adults with disabilities, there's hardly any who use it in our site, because that's a lot, right, Marie? I use it. Well, as a teacher, but do the students use it? Yes. Oh. Oh yeah, no, a lot of my students use it. And I use it in my classroom every day, and then I tell them how to log in every day. I mean, I think the passwords and getting in, because then they have access to the immersive reader, well, and then they have access to immersive reader, and they also have access to the other websites that I access, so it's easy for them to click. So my products, I put all that you found on Amazon and other retailers. So it was the big keys, the stickers, the one-click and the stylus, okay? So those minimal, I mean, you can get fancier stuff. And here's one keyboard I didn't show. This had a guard on it. So, and this, as you know, this is a little bit different, this particular one. So the great thing about this is what do you think you can do on this? Well, that's the big keys. Yeah, big keys, yes. But there's something, I don't know if you guys can pick up on it or just because I know what it is. So this is, like, I can put my hand on it and I'm not hitting the rest of the keys. So I can do this. If you just want to tuck your name, so it goes like that. Yeah, so the other great thing about it, so also seniors with any of the tremors going on, that's gonna be awesome, okay? So think about your seniors, your parents, or anyone in your family, because I know this would be very helpful back in the day, but I didn't know about it. So that would be, and that would make them a lot, you know, they could do social media and stuff like that. So this is, again, we don't have to think disabilities. Just think of usability, okay? What makes it easier for them? So this, and this can be in plastic and Joy you said there's metal out there. So there's, these are key guards, key guards. So something that's really great for them. And here's the other thing that we have used. Remember, I told you that we had like a big wand. Now let's say that you don't have that, you know, you just can't do it. So if I could use your stylist again. So imagine that you have your stylist, my big stick again, I can do it this way, okay? So again, just being creative and looking at your learner to see what can I do to help them? I'm almost there. What else can I do to help them? So it's just kind of thinking outside the box, real outside, but getting them there, just getting them used to it. Yes. Do you mind, Alicia, if I share the device lending and demonstration center information? Yeah, do you all, she works for a, well, I actually work along with the community college. I also work for United Cerebral Palsy. There's a technology lab. One of the programs that we have there is a device lending and demonstration center through Ability Tools. We are one of 10 device lending libraries through the state of California. And we loan all kinds of different mouths, keyboards, communication devices, and it's a free loan program for 35 days. That's a great tip. And also the great thing about that, let's pretend you're not sure if you want this, right, Joy? I'm not sure this would work for me. Can I go check it out? Absolutely. So 30 days of trial and error, that's pretty good. 35. Just saying, sorry. Yeah, just kidding. So that's a great tip, just to know, again, think outside the box. It's not only for adults with disabilities, what ability can I help them with? Because there's so many seniors out there who just get, that keyboard is just too crazy. Change it up for them, right? So here's the other thing in summary. I just wanted to go over if the technology continues to improve and provide greater access for all people of a variety of challenges, right? So the great ones are OTAN's accessibility resources. If any of you, if you click that, it'll take you to the link. Also, Wade, he's talking about the different accessibility cast, anyone familiar with that? That's UDL, Universal Design Learning, Grappled Docs. Now that's for, isn't that just for Google? Yes. So that's Google. Yes. This'll be all in, I'm gonna give you the Q&A program. Any questions? I know, Ash, I think I'm not really at the side of it. Yes. Just to add someone asked about stickers in lower case, so you can also get those on your son. The lower case ones? I think we predominantly only did the uppercase because when you look at the keyboard, it's all aerial font, so we stayed with that. Just because, yes. I have a question. So I know your students are adults with disabilities and a lot of us teach outside of that. So you know your students are coming with certain needs. We may, I think a student needs something. How do you approach a student without insulting them? I mean, an adult? So maybe you could have a couple of... Just kind of... Yeah, maybe just want to help. Do you think this could help you? Okay. You know, have a... Yeah, why don't we try this one today? Because this is one of the least expensive ways before you do the things, but you can go through the lending. Check it out. Any other questions?