THE ACCESS NOTEBOOK
Welcome to the The Access Notebook!
This site will be under construction regularly so you may get a Page Not Found error as work is being done. Please come back often!
What is the Access Notebook?
- A resource page for information about assistive technology tools
- A resource page for creating accessible digital materials to be used with assistive technology tools
- A resource page for including disability history in educational spaces, that also includes the use of assistive technology to create inclusive activities for all students and community members, regarding of their access needs, to be able to learn about the history of disability rights.
- A place to learn about current work in the disability history space, including books, museums and colllections and websites
- A place for ideas to be shared about using assistive technology, creating digitally accessible materials for teaching disability history
- Collecting information to be shared about assistive technology and accessibility
The Beginning of the Access Notebook
In 2010, a project called “Learning About Freedom” was launched at an Assistive Technology Resource Center in Knoxville to teach students with disabilities about the history of social justice movements, who were not receiving academic instruction. The use of assistive technology tools, musicians, story tellers, and movement gave students a method of learning and participating. A curriculum guide was created and will be reshaped on this site.
It is hoped that this notebook can be a repository and shared space for expanding upon the work done at the AT Center along with sessions in the public library branches and offer ideas for teaching about disability history regardless of access needs. Along with the use of assistive technology and accessible digital materials, The Access Notebook will also include books, work being done in the disability history space, museums and collections along with other educational materials in development.