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Live Captioning for Everyone
Ok, I promise, I’ll get to Live Captions in just a second, but first a quick update… We’ve been busy! It’s been the summer and Tracey and I are both educators. I travelled around Europe and Canada with my family, while Tracey spent time closer to home. However, we certainly haven’t been sat around, and…
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How I love the sound of sweet nothings in my ear!
I’m not a hopeless romantic by any means, but everything becomes clearer and way more comfortable when someone speaks into my ear. I immediately am more confident, relaxed and poised to hear more of what they have to say… Before you start getting steamy thoughts, I’m referring to when someone uses my trusty Remote Microphone!…
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Getting Connected in the Classroom with Assistive Listening Devices
We’ve been hard at work to bring you a set of resources which will make it quick and easy to connect assistive listening devices to the tools that are used in the classroom. We know that getting started with tools like the Digimaster is easy, but connecting devices such as the touchscreen microphone to a…
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The Digital Divide
I think back to 2001, I was looking at universities and I went to an event at the University of Essex for their Computer Science program. The presentation was given by one of their lecturers who at the time talked about the hardware which was being used to fly aircraft, and the unreliability of that…
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Olive Juice
The month of February is always rife with cheesy advertisements, whether for the SuperBowl or reminders about Valentine’s Day. I don’t particularly care for the SuperBowl; I’m of the opinion that the halftime show is always weirdly interrupted by a football game! And, when speaking of Valentine’s day, I’ve always considered it to be more…
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How sticky is the sticky situation?
Listen to this post Have you ever found yourself in a sticky situation, where once you realized the stickiness of it, you stayed with it instead of trying to rectify the situation? No? That’s okay, I’m fine with being the honest one in this conversation! Today I decided I was going to kill two birds…
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Using Microphones for Clearer Voice
Listen to this post Those of us who work in education have probably at some point said “It’s OK I’ll use my teacher voice”, but what we probably don’t realise is how this impacts those around us. When we speak louder, our voice becomes less clear, and in addition, our mouths become harder to read.…
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Closed mouths don’t get fed!
How are the holidays treating you? It’s officially that time between Christmas and New Years where you are either vegging out, or running around with your head cut off… I’m doing a bit of both, if I’m honest with you. But, today was more about vegging… I treated myself to a massage. Now- seems simple…
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Accessible Theatre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Making theatre arts accessible for students with hearing loss can be a challenge, one which we recently accepted and we’ve been learning and exploring. In this post we’re going to talk about some of the challenges and successes that we’ve had. To set the scene our theatre is a 400+ seat two storey space, with…
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Festive times and Winter Blues
For those of us who live in parts of the world with (non-livable) subzero temperatures in the winter with shorter days and pitch dark commutes to and from work- it’s that time of year! Don’t get me wrong, the winter blues haven’t arrived just yet! With beautiful displays of lights and holiday cheer still in…