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Accessing Online Writing Spaces: Feedback for Everyone
1. Accessing Online Writing Spaces:
Feedback for Everyone
Casey R. McArdle
Michigan State University
Computers and Writing Conference - 2016
@crmcardle
2. What is accessibility?
● “Accessible” means a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity
to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and
enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally
effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent
ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the
information as fully, equally and independently as a person without a
disability. Although this might not result in identical ease of use
compared to that of persons without disabilities, it still must ensure
equal opportunity to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded
by the technology and equal treatment in the use of such technology.
(From the agreement between the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
and the South Carolina Technical College System (SCTCS) on the accessibility of their websites 2013)
3. Why accessibility?
● 1 in 5 people in the United States report having
a disability (Brault).
● 1 in 10 undergraduates report having a
disability according to the National Center for
Educational Statistics.
4. Making your courses accessible:
• Provides educational opportunities to all students. For example, a screen
reader will provide an audio description of the image allowing a student with
a visual disability to access information about the image.
• Can provide students with disabilities a sense of independence. For example,
a student with a hearing disability can leverage technology to access content
in videos directly from closed captions.
• Allows students to engage in course activities. For example, students with
cognitive disabilities may be allowed additional time for assignments and
assessments. (Chaaban 2015)
7. Accessing Peer Review
● Feedback is not advice, praise, or evaluation. Feedback is information about
how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal. (Wiggins 10)
● Students need to know their learning target --the specific skill they’re
supposed to learn-- or else “feedback” is just someone telling them what to
do. (Brookhart 24)
● When we give a grade as part of our feedback, students routinely read only
as far as the grade. (Johnston 64)
● The feedback students give teachers can be more powerful than the
feedback teachers give students. (Tovani 48)
● Effective feedback occurs during the learning, while there is still time to act
on it. (Chappuis 36)
{The collective wisdom of authors published in the September 2012 issue of Educational Leadership: “Feedback for Learning.” (Volume 70, Issue 1).}
8. You might think:
● Why worry about it?
● Students should just figure it out, right?
● I teach the class, not the technology.
Don’t go through that door!
10. Accessibility Tools for Feedback
● Paper (f2f)
● Discussion boards
● Google Docs
● EtherPad
● Eli Review
12. How does Eli work?
● Instant data
● Know learning goals/targets
● Feedback on feedback
● Student agency
● Peer-to-peer
● Avoids the grade as the goal
14. Works Cited
Brault, M. W. (2012). Americans With Disabilities: 2010. Retrieved from
https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf
Chaaban, Mary. (2015). Accessibility in Online Courses. Retrieved from
https://teachonline.asu.edu/2015/07/accessibility-online-courses/
National Center for Education Statistics. (n.d.). Fast Facts: Students with Disabilities.
Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=60
“Resolution Agreement”. (2013). Office of Civil Rights in the Resolution agreement
with South Carolina Technical College System. Retrieved from
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/11116002-b.pdf
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Image 2: http://www.elireview.com