Plus One Strategies for Digital Equity and E-Inclusion

Build Your Practice Through Small Actionable Steps 

Plus One Strategies for Digital Equity and E-Inclusion

Plus One Strategies provide short tangible workshops to provide practice in developing your skills.  

Open to all instructors at UMaine or UMaine Machias, these 30-minutes meetings will focus on “Plus One Strategies” you can adopt to proactively design courses that meet the varied needs of our increasingly diverse body of students. Each workshop will be designed with 30 minutes of learning on a specific strategy and 30 minutes of practice and Q&A to allow you to explore these strategies in your teaching context.

Plus One Strategies for Digital Equity and E-Inclusion – Spring 2022

When – Spring 2022

Alternate Tuesdays at 12:30-1:30pm via Zoom starting on February 1st, unless otherwise noted

Plus One Topics for Spring 2022

February 1st: Making your visuals accessible: “Alt text” and visual descriptions (opens in a new window)

February 15th: Making your course videos accessible: Closed Captions and accessibility features (opens in a new window)

March 29th: Creating accessible tables and spreadsheets for your courses (opens in a new window)

April 12th: Creating accessible slides for your courses (opens in a new window)

April 26th: Creating accessible word documents for your courses (opens in a new window)

Plus One Topics for Fall 2021

September 1: Making your visuals accessible: “Alt text”, whiteboards, videos

October 20: Creating accessible documents for your course: Google Docs, Grackle Docs & PDFs

*October 20: Creating accessible tables and spreadsheets for your courses
*Added due to popular request

November 3: Colors and accessible documents

December 1: Creating and sourcing accessible videos for your course