This new EASI course is aimed to help people who have to provide training
on adaptive computer technologies like screen readers, screen
magnification, operating systems, web browsers and much more.  Many people,
especially librarians and Disabled Studenter Service staff, have the
responsibility for such training but have limited training themselves and
even less time to
train themselves.


                EASI is proud to announce a new workshop, Train the
Trainer, beginning on
March 4th.
This is one of the eight courses offered in our certificate program and can
be taken towards the certificate or as a stand-alone course.

    Train the Trainer

Many organizations are providing limited training on adaptive technology to
their customers, students or staff in a variety of different software
packages. They do not plan to provide depth training, and they only expect
to provide training on a specific application periodically. They are
concerned with how to prepare some staff person to provide this basic
training on many applications and only at infrequent intervals. Train the
Trainer is intended to provide basic know-how on several adaptive
technologies, provide tools to help the trainer refresh their memories
quickly as well as giving teaching tools and hand-outs for the end learner.
It is ideal for institutions which provide adaptive technology to a constant
stream of new users such as a school or library. The institution's trainer
has training as only one part of his/her responsibilities and needs concrete
support to assist with this added responsibility. The course will cover
operating system basics, adaptive technology basics for screen readers,
screen magnification, voice recognition and more. It will give tips for
teaching to people with disabilities.

Registration and syllabus are available from the main course page
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

Also offered on March 4th is the Barrier-free E-learning course and the
Barrier-free Beginner's Web design.  All of the workshops and their syllabus
can be found at the main course page listed above.

EASI - Equal Access to Software & Information
P.O. Box 818
Lake Forest, CA 92609
www.rit.edu/~easi
Phone: (949) 916-2837

*** Note AHEAD members can qualify for a 20% discount.  Write me
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Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Cell (949) 922-5992
Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
CEO, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
        http://www.rit.edu/~easi

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Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
Cell (949) 922-5992
Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
CEO, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
        http://www.rit.edu/~easi