Based within the Sheffield Regional Assessment Centre (SRAC) the Assistive Technology Service offer technical advice and guidance to the Sheffield Regional Assessment centre (SRAC) and other teams within Disabled Student Support services (DSS) and provide specialist support and training on assistive technology delivered by our team of assistive technology specialists. These sessions teach how to use assistive technology tools to support study and improve research skills, academic writing and can assist with planning and organizational skills. Please visit our blog page on the Skills Centre Webpage for information about sessions for students, booking details and a video of student who has accessed our services.
Lunch Byte sessions for staff supporting students
The Assistive Technology service have developed two new sessions that showcase how Mind View, Read & Write, assistive technology software can be used to support teaching and learning. These sessions are hands on and interactive. The participants will have the opportunity to see how the software works and to be involved in using the tools to implement the strategies.
The team would love for teaching staff to come along to these sessions in order to get their thoughts and reflections on the sessions and suggestions on how they might be further developed to support students. We are hopeful that you will see the potential to incorporate these tools into your own teaching practice.
We are running the sessions weekly on alternate Fridays and Thursdays starting this Friday at Collegiate and then next Thursday, after that we will be cycling the two sessions at a number of venues at both Campuses throughout July and August.
If you are interested and want to attend one of the sessions listed below, please email us at at-service@shu.ac.uk
| ‘Support your students to plan assignments using assistive technology’ | ‘Enhance your student’s research skills using assistive technology’ |
| This session will demonstrate the features of Mind view 7, and how it can be used to support the planning of assignments
We will demonstrate how to:
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This session will demonstrate techniques for breaking down an assignment brief into bite-size chunks. Using the software, we will then go on to show how essay topics can be researched, collected, and then built into an essay structure, with the correct referencing applied.
In this session we will use:
This software is available via AppsAnywhere Dates:
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