----- Original Message ----- From: ""Simon Hayhoe"" <edi...@blindnessandarts.com> To: <edi...@blindnessandarts.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:38 PM Subject: [SDS-Int] Presentation on Computing & Blindness in Education Project, London, 15th January 2009
> Dear All, > I am presenting the latest results of the Computing and Blindness in > Education (COMBINE) project tomorrow (Thursday 15th January 2009) at the > 2009 British Educational Technology Show (BETT), Kensington Olympia > Exhibition Centre, London as part of their Special Needs Education seminar > series. This is quite a prestigious event for this project, as BETT is the > world's largest educational technology show. > > The findings and the model of analysis have changed slightly since I > presented the original paper of the pilot study on the BCAB website, as > several extra things of interest came out of my followup interviews. As a > result, I have put the new presentation - in accessible text format (RTF) > and Power Point - on ECO: On Blindness and the Arts. The web address for > the > page that contains their links is the Publications - Arts Education page: > > http://www.blindnessandarts.com/publications/education.htm > > These findings seem particularly important as these early case studies > appear to show that background and education is more important than level > of > blindness in terms of understanding visual concepts of computing and IT. > Thus, these results appear to mirror my earlier findings in art education > classes. > > Thank you to all of the people that have helped with this project thus > far, > and I look forward to letting you know about future results, as they > arise. > > Sincere best wishes, > > Simon > > ---------------------------------------------- > > Dr Simon Hayhoe, Editor > > ECO: On Blindness and the Arts - http://www.blindnessandarts.com > > Leicester, UK > _______________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the SDS-int mailing list > sds-...@lists.disstudies.org > http://lists.disstudies.org/mailman/listinfo/sds-int > > If you are not a member of SDS, please consider joining the organization > as an individual or at the institutional level by clicking on "membership > information" at http://www.disstudies.org. Alternatively, you may visit > https://www.regonline.com/sdssubscribe to sign up as a member or e-mail > Pratik Patel at prati...@gmail.com. > > If you have questions/comments/concerns about the content of this posting > or to unsubscribe from SDS-int, please e-mail the list administrator, > Pratik Patel at the City University of New York,at prati...@gmail.com > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
