{"id":125,"date":"2005-12-03T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-12-03T06:22:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:22:04","slug":"air-high-accessibility-in-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/air-high-accessibility-in-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"AIR High &#8211; Accessibility in High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/tattoo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ahhhhh&#8230;.High School.  So many life lessons learned.  So many memories forever tattooed in your psyche.  What a great moment in time to be immersed in the web and accessibility.  What?  Teach web accessibility to high school teachers and students?  Yep, that is exactly what we are doin&#8217; right here in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the creative mind of Sharron Rush, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbility.org\">Knowbility<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbility.org\/air-high\/\">AIR High<\/a> has begun.  We are fanning out across this great state and spreading the word of accessibility and the importance of web standards.  Armed with a curriculum specially developed for high school minds, we are changing the way Texas High Schools teach and create web sites.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve taught more accessibility classes than I can count, but all of them have been to adults.  So, as we set off on this journey, I knew I wanted the perspective of an experienced high school teacher while we designed the course materials.  Hmmmm&#8230;.high school teacher&#8230;.accessibility&#8230;.that equals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofchocolates.ca\/\">Derek Featherstone<\/a>!     Derek&#8217;s contributions to AIR High are priceless to me.  As an international accessibility expert and a former high school teacher, I feel like I hit the jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as my fellow accessibility evangelists and I roadtrip around Texas and spread the word, I have a wonderful sense of collective intelligence.  As I look at the course we&#8217;ve developed I see the wisdom of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimthatcher.com\/\">Jim Thatcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/research\/accessibility\/\">John Slatin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbility.org\/about\/?content=sRush\">Sharron Rush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbility.org\/network\/?content=jAllan\">Jim Allen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofchocolates.ca\/\">Derek Featherstone<\/a> and my alter-ego, The Goodwitch.    <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the ripple effects.  My sweetest reward?  To know that our work may inspire the next generation of accessibility and web standards wizards.<\/p>\n<p>All for web!  Web for all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/tattoo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ahhhhh&#8230;.High School.  So many life lessons learned.  So many memories forever tattooed in your psyche.  What a great moment in time to be immersed in the web and accessibility.  What?  Teach web accessibility to high school teachers and students?  Yep, that is exactly what we are doin&#8217; right here in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}