NED Events Calendar

The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.

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  • Successful Accessible Documents: An Intro (Fall 2024)

    Want to know more about making your Word documents ADA compliant--accessible for all your students? This webinar will introduce you to the basics of how to make your documents accessible from the very beginning of creating them! RSVP Required Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessible Course Documents (Fall 2024)

    August 26 - September 15, 2024 Short Course Description  This short course provides faculty and staff an opportunity to practice making digital materials accessible to those who use a screen reader. The course introduces participants to basic techniques to using tools available in the Microsoft Office suite including Word and PowerPoint. Additionally, participants will get... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Finding Accessible Ready-to-Go Teaching Materials (Fall 2024)

    We all want to have accessible teaching materials, but sometimes lack time to make our own materials accessible--but we would use good materials that are already accessible! Between our library data bases and the world of credible internet sources, there are more accessible videos, transcripts, interviews and articles than you might realize. We will present... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Disability Justice I (Fall 2024)

    October 7 - 27, 2024 Short Course Description In this 3-week introduction to disability justice course, you will learn about disability justice, practice using inclusive language, and apply strategies to interrupt ableism. You can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like: Write/revise inclusive accessibility statements, Draft... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Is My Document Accessible?

    This webinar is set up to guide you through three essential strategies to make your course materials more accessible using Microsoft 365 tools. We’ll be covering: How to effectively use headings How to add alt text to images How to use the Word Accessibility Checker to review documents These tools are simple to use but... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Disability Justice and International Students

    In this session, we’ll talk about policies and practices that create barriers for international students with disabilities as well as effective classroom interventions. Approximately 7% of international students studying in the United States report having used disability resources. However, because of cultural expectations, stigma, and bureaucratic hurdles caused by visa regulations, the need to translate... Continue Reading →

    Free
  • Accessible Digital Media (Spring 2025)

    March 3 - March 23, 2025 Short Course Description  Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →

    Free

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