Monday, July 10, 2006

Ken Petri, who works in the Web Accessibility Center, did a presentation on meeting ADA accessibility guidelines in our workshop today. We talked about all of the common issues in accessing a website. We mainly focused on accommodating for Screen Readers, but we touched on all of the categories of disability. After his presentation I talked to him about setting up an appointment for an interview with him and we ow have one scheduled for tomorrow.

After workshop I went over to Classroom Services in Lord Hall and checked out a camera and a microphone. They didn't have a lavalier microphone, which is what Justin Troyer had suggested that I use for the interviews so I had to check out a stick microphone. I was a little early for my meeting with Prof B, so I went to her office and worked on some emails. Then we talked about the upcoming interviews and questions that i will be asking them. Then we did a practice interview. We do not have workshop tomorrow, so I will be going in to the Digital Union to learn how to transfer it to my computer and to check and make sure the sound worked. I want to get this all checked out before I do the interviews tomorrow afternoon.

In class tonight we talked about the difference between Autobiography and Autoethnography. We also looked at Stephen Kuusisto's new blog and talked about a few of the entries and related them to our own personal experiences. We also talked about Kuusisto's "Planet of the Blind" and Kleege's "Sight Unseen".

Although R2 does not have aworkshop tomorrow, I still have a VERY busy day. In addition to Ken, I will also be interviewing Krista Winger, Chris Keck, Mary Koeninger and Sarah Terry. I will basically be spending the entire day at ODS interviewing! I also have some reading to do for my seminar on Wednesday and class on Thursday.

Well my busy Monday is over and I believe a little bit of relaxation is in order!

Thanks for reading!
- Karla :)

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