Digiknow courses for Hilary 2020 focus on creating documents that are accessible to as many people as possible.
Book for: 30 Jan 2020, 12:30-13:30 – Banbury Road
This session will help you create documents that are more readable for everyone and more accessible for people with special needs. We will look at principles of readable formatting and how they can be achieved with every day tools without much additional effort. These techniques will apply to print, PDFs and web documents. If you want, you can bring in some documents you created and see how you could easily reformat them.
Book for: 17 Feb 2020, 12:30-13:30 – Banbury Road
Graphical displays of complex information are very effective and can enhance understanding of difficult subjects. They are also an essential tool for including more kinds of people in your audience. And not least, they can help content creators organise their thinking about the subject. Many people worry that they need to learn to use a complicated graphics editor or pay a graphic designer. But that’s not true. This session will show you how you can create powerful graphics with the tools you already use.
Book for: 2 March 2020, 12:30-13:30 – Banbury Road
Do you want to simplify your writing without sounding too simple? This session will introduce key principles of simple language and tools that can help you achieve this. You will learn how to structure your document, how to shorten sentences and how to avoid constructions that make understanding more difficult. You will also learn how to check and interpret the readability score of your document. You can also bring your own documents to simplify.
Book for: 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30 – Banbury Road
This session will present easily accessible technologies that can help students be more productive while studying. These tech tips and strategies will be helpful to all who feel they are struggling to keep up with all their reading or find it hard to produce academic writing on time. It will also suggest approaches and tools to organising academic work. It will focus on easily accessible free or cheap tech tools that can save time and improve the quality of their work. Most of these tools and strategies will be useful for anyone wishing to improve their productivity.
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