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

[Hung, Jonathan]

Hi John,

If this is something that people are interested in doing again, perhaps we can schedule another session in the future where we take another educational simulation and go through a similar process. We could schedule it for a future community workshop (typically Wednesdays 2:30-4pm Eastern).

To those who managed to attend this meeting - I’ve tried to put down notes of what we had talked about into the Google Doc. Can others please take a look and see if I missed anything? You can find the google doc here: “PhET Sim Design Brainstorming - Wave on a String<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HFQFpnG6Pha8qqNXt9T9u3EYNiJgpqn61B74RutXWs/edit#heading=h.hq9uptuzjhqb>".

- Jon.

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Jonathan Hung, Inclusive Designer
Email: jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca>
OCAD University
Inclusive Design Research Centre


On July 21, 2016 at 7:21:45 PM, Taliesin Love Smith (ts14hh at student.ocadu.ca<mailto:ts14hh at student.ocadu.ca>) wrote:

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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><mailto: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.
>
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> Jonathan Hung, Inclusive Designer
> Email: jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca><mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca>>
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