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[oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Mon Sep 10 10:00:55 BST 2007

Article: [oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video

They are a really good introduction to how people use AT.
I look forward to see more OATS being so useful.

On 10/09/2007, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
> Nice idea.  Definitely something we'd like to contribute to in the long
> term...  We've put some video case studies together as a starter:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ywgytv
> http://www.youtube.com/barnsleyat
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:53 AM
> To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
> Subject: [oats-sig] Promoting OATS with video
>
> Looking at AbilityNet's collection of AT related videos on YouTube made me
> realise that it would great to capitalise on the viral marketing
> opportunities for OATS. An OATSoft YouTube channel is one possibility, but
> we need more videos first. Some webcasts and videos are on other sites like
> Yahoo so a section on OATSoft with links back from the channels would be a
> better solution.
>
> We could do with with a set of introductory videos and webcasts showing the
> benefits of OATS. There's already Dasher videos and we could add OATS such
> as FireVox, Orca (with magnifier), GOK, SAW, PowerTalk etc. For end users we
> could show how easy it is to use. For clinical staff we could show how to
> set up simple customisations
> (AutoHotKey?)
>
> Does anyone have experience and/or the inkling to start this?
>
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> Steve Lee
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> speak for themselves www.fullmeasure.co.uk
>
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Steve Lee
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