Event Details

CE Program/Activity
 YouDescribe Science! Using Audio Description in the STEM Classroom
Provider
 NorCalAER BVI
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Location
 San Francisco, CA - The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute2318 Fillmore Street,San Francisco CA 94115
Date(s)
 August 19, 2017 - August 19, 2017 - 08/19/2017
CE Hours
 4
Contact Information
 Charity Pitcher-Cooper, Ph.DBoston University, B.S. in Health Studies, 2002University of Arizona, M.A. in Special Education, 2006University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D in Special Education, 2015Yue-Ting Siu, TVI/O&M, Ph.DAssistant Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Visual ImpairmentsSan Francisco State UniversityJoshua Miele, Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute,Associate Director of Technology, Research, and Development.Education: University of California, Berkeley B.A. 1997 Physics University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 2003 Cognitive Psychology/ Psychoacoustics
Registration Information
 Attendees will directly contact the coordinators/presenters. The following links appear on the Smith Kitterwill Web-site and facebook page with registration instructions: Link to static page:http://www.ski.org/event/youdescribe-science-using-audio-description-stem-classroom?utm_content=bufferfba8a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Link to FB event:https://www.facebook.com/events/826113767548560/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D
Fees
 No Cost
Description of CE Program/Activity
 First launched in 2013, YouDescribe was developed as a project of The Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center by scientist Joshua Miele, through a grant from the Department of Education OSEP. Since enactment of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the vast majority of American students with visual disabilities have been educated in mainstream schools alongside sighted peers. In order to make effective use of mainstream educational settings, blind students must have access to the instructional materials being used in the classroom. Audio description (AD) has existed officially for over 35 years, and has been practiced informally perhaps since the very inception of art and performance. Audio description is the deceptively simple practice of adding additional narration to a video or other performance to verbalize the important visual elements of the program. Blind and visually-impaired viewers can often infer much of the important action in a film or video from dialog and auditory cues. However, there are many occasions when a few well-chosen words of description provide crucial information (e.g., scene changes and settings, characters on screen, action sequences, and text). An educational science video is far more effective for a blind or visually-impaired student if she is aware of visual-only information such as on-screen text and equations, visual demonstrations of scientific concepts, and specifics of visual comparisons. The class YouDescribe Science! Using audio description (AD) in the STEM classroom is a class for TVI s, STEM teachers, and those in alt-media on the importance of AD for students with visual impairments, and a step by step tutorial on how to use YouDescribe for the classroom. Students at the end of the four hour class will: (numbers in parenthesis are not finalized and just for reference- meaning I made them up ) 1. Be able to list (5) ways audio description supports better learning and retention for students wit

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