Making Books for All Part 2, 19-20 November 2009

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 25th November, 2009

Last week 26 teachers and educationalists from all over Scotland gathered at Stirling Management Centre for the second part of CALL's four day course on making learning materials in accessible formats - "Books for All". The course was funded by LTS and led by Paul Nisbet and Stuart Aitken of CALL Scotland. We covered topics like:

• 'intermediate files' from which accessible formats can be made quickly and easily;
• scanning books and hard copy resources into digital formats;
• interactive resources created using Textease, Clicker 5, PDF, The Grid and Mediator (thanks to Maudie Riley from Highland, Graeme Bruce from Aberdeenshire, Janet Mackie from Fife and Owen Dunn from North Lanarkshire for presenting at this session);
• recording audio resources.

The course seemed to be well received and we hope that those who attended will be able to use the skills and knowledge acquired to create more books and learning resources in accessible formats for print-disabled pupils. We hope to be able to offer more of these in-depth courses in 2010, as well as the shorter events that we run as part of our regular CPD programme in Edinburgh and on site in schools and local authorities.