Video Resources

 
If video resources are used; it is important that captioning is provided. Sign language videos need to be provided for Deaf students or a transcript in Braille. Students with a visual/hearing impairment may prefer a transcript in large print / giant print / PDF. Any student may provide an alternative to video due to not [...]

Out of Bounds

 
Week 6 of the course and the website is still unstable. For the majority of this week the site has been down. It is so frustrating. It is impossible to study this course without printed material.

Sitting..Waiting… Wishing…

 
The website is frustratingly down again and Block 2 has not been issued. I wonder why the course is not implementing the best practice recommended in week 5’s reading by ALERT – “put all materials in the VLE at the beginning of the course”!! Why are all the blocks not published? I’ve completed Block 1 [...]

Locked out :-(

 
Okay…H810 calls for desperate measures… It is 3.30am in the morning and I thought I’d log onto the OU website to access chapter 4 of the set book for Week 3’s reading. Sadly, I receive the following message…. L  and whenever I log back at the time specified in the error message – I am still [...]

Fiddlesticks!!!

The H810 website is down again this lunch time
L L L L L L

Sometimes I Feel As If I’m Just Banging My Head Against An OU Red Brick Wall

H810 website is down again!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Communicating with disabled people

 
The course material of H810 advises that we need to feel comfortable discussing disabled people with colleagues and fellow students.
The following guidance is provided:-
http://jarmin.com/demos/course/awareness/terminology.html
I think the terminology we use to communicate about disability, influences how disabled people are treated by society as a whole and is very important.
I think it can be [...]

First Impressions of H810

Studying with the Open University, is not like it used to be. It used to be so exciting receiving a big box of course material. As soon as the course started, away you were with lovely shiny new books, dvds and materials to work through…. Now you sign up and are faced with days of printing [...]