[community] Accessible physics simulations open design meeting (2-4p ET, Jul 21, 2016)

[Taliesin Love Smith]

Hi John,
Sorry about the short notice. It would have been very good to have your
insights!
Maybe we should try it again for a community meeting?

For people who would like to check it out, here is a link to PhET's
Accessibility Research page
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/accessibility

Taliesin





On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 7:13 PM, John Willis <pickupwillis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great feedback thanks very much Tali
>
> I saw your interesting work in GradEx, but wondered if others might not
> know what you were referring to
>
> If I had more notice of this I would definitely have participated, sorry
> to have missed it
>
> On Jul 21, 2016, at 18:31, Taliesin Love Smith <ts14hh at student.ocadu.ca>
> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> PhET Interactive Simulations is a project, founded by Nobel Laureate, Carl
> Wieman from the University of Colorado Boulder. The project was founded in
> 2002 to create open source tools for teaching science. The project has
> developed over 130 high quality interactive science simulations. Now that
> many of the sims are being ported to HTML5, the project is doing research
> in how to make the sims accessible to more students.
>
> Taliesin
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:51 PM, John Willis <pickupwillis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan, this sounds interesting but… What is a PhET sim?
>>
>> > On Jul 21, 2016, at 11:23, Hung, Jonathan <jhung at ocadu.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > Apologies for the formatting on the original email. Here it is again
>> without the bad formatting (fingers crossed)….
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > This afternoon from 2pm to 4pm Eastern time, the team working on
>> accessible PhET sims will be doing a design exercise which we will take a
>> new PhET sim (possibly the “Waves on a String” sim) and go through the
>> process of creating an accessible and inclusive design.
>> >
>> > We invite anyone interested to join us. We will be meeting in the
>> Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West, and will be web streaming
>> over the fluid_standup Vidyo room<
>> https://conf.inclusivedesign.ca/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=xemU59x8DtnO41eCMtCpCioWaRI>.
>> You may need to install the Vidyo app <https://conf.inclusivedesign.ca/>
>> on your computer or portable device before joining.
>> >
>> > Feel free to come, listen, and get involved.
>> >
>> > - Jon.
>> >
>> >
>> > On July 21, 2016 at 11:19:24 AM, Hung, Jonathan (jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:
>> jhung at ocadu.ca>) wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > This afternoon from 2pm to 4pm<
>> http://airmail.calendar/2016-07-21%2014:00:00%20EDT> Eastern time, the
>> team working on accessible PhET sims will be doing a design exercise which
>> we will take a new PhET sim (possibly the “Waves on a String” sim) and go
>> through the process of creating an accessible and inclusive design.
>> >
>> > We invite anyone interested to join us. We will be meeting in the
>> Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West, and will be web streaming
>> over the fluid_standup<
>> https://conf.inclusivedesign.ca/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=xemU59x8DtnO41eCMtCpCioWaRI>
>> Vidyo room. You may need to install the Vidyo app<
>> https://conf.inclusivedesign.ca/> on your computer or portable device
>> before joining.
>> >
>> > Feel free to come, listen, and get involved.
>> >
>> > - Jon.
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Jonathan Hung, Inclusive Designer
>> > Email: jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca>
>> > OCAD University
>> > Inclusive Design Research Centre
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