by Jen Wagner | Feb 24, 2025 | PDF, Technology, universal design
With the approaching Department of Justice deadline (April 2026), we need to look for resources that guide us to make our content more accessible. If you’ve seen the Ally speedometers in your course, you may have noticed that PDFs are often the least accessible type...
by Jen Wagner | Oct 23, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Technology
As an instructor, we often struggle with how best to assess student learning. With formal exams, we want to make questions that test all the high points of required student learning, but are not super time consuming to grade. Navigating this often results in the...
by Jen Wagner | Apr 22, 2024 | iPad, mobile, Technology, universal design
On March 13th and 14th, 2024, Altoona Instructional Design offered a workshop, Instructional Technology Tools that Create Powerful Learning Experiences,in partnership with our colleague, Ian Camera, at Apple Education. During the workshop, Ian showcased how the...
by Jen Wagner | Mar 7, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Over the course of this Spotlight Series we’ve talked about using AI in different ways; the importance of knowing what you’re asking for, how to use it for graphics and project designs, and even using it for alternative text and long descriptions for complex images. ...
by Jen Wagner | Mar 6, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Before diving into this topic, let’s start with some terminology: Alternative text: text to communicate the content and function of non-text content. This text is not a visible description, but is provided on the backend for someone who is using assistive...