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Free webcast on STEM Accessibility - October 13
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October 13, 2011, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time
This webinar will be broadcast live from the Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky

Here's the URL for the webcast:
http://ideal-group.org/stem/index.htm 

The webinar room can handle 300 participants and will be unlocked 30 minutes prior to the start of the session. Be sure to log in early as it takes a few minutes to download and install the webinar plugin. If you wait until the last minute to log in we will not be able to help you if you run into problems.

The STEM Accessibility Consortium would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the American Printing House for the Blind in allowing us to hold this forum as a Related Meeting of their 2011 Annual Meeting and providing a physical meeting place for this session. We also gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the IDEAL Group for sponsoring this webcast of the forum as a public service to all people who care about the success of students with disabilities in the STEM topic areas.

STEM Accessibility Consortium
A Related Meeting to be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of Ex Officio Trustees and Special Guests of the American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. 
http://www.aph.org/anmtg/2011/stem.htm 

Using the model of the AFB Solutions Forum, this meeting will feature discussion of issues related to the development and delivery of accessible curricular content in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas of the Core Curriculum.

The discussion panel will include some of the leading experts on STEM access from around the country:

- John Gardner is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Oregon State University and President of ViewPlus Technologies. He will discuss modern methods for making two-dimensionally-represented information easily accessible is STEM content, including tables, charts, graphs, and diagrams.

- Dave Schleppenbach is President of GH, LLC, and a chemist by formal education. He will discuss his current work as one of the research strand partners of the federally-funded Mathematics eText Research Center (MeTRC) as well as a follow-on grant involving an on-line Algebra Course in Moodle for blind students.

- Steve Jacobs is President of IDEAL Group, Inc., and has been in the computer industry for 36 years, including serving as President of IDEAL at NCR Corporation. He will discuss OCR scanning technology for mathematics, Speech-Driven Math Editing, Audio-Describing Math Tutorial Videos, Automatically generating visual and math descriptions of math equations, and Video Audio-Description Client of the Future.

This related meeting will be held in the Segell Room during Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 13, from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm at the Galt House Hotel.

Contact: Steve Noble, [log in to unmask], 502-969-3088

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