EASIT Educational Materials.
Hello. I am a talking pencil.
I wear black glasses and white gloves
and I have a pointing stick in my left hand.
I will be your guide through the introduction
to the educational materials of the EASIT project.
The educational materials that EASIT has created
are distributed into units.
Each unit has different elements or general topics
that include various items.
The units deal with the following topics.
Unit 1 is about media accessibility. It is a general introduction.
Unit 2 addresses easy-to-understand language,
with a focus on the written text.
Unit 3 addresses easy-to-understand language
in the audiovisual world.
More specifically, it includes Unit 3A,
on easy-to-understand language and subtitling.
Unit 3B, on easy-to-understand language and audio description.
And Unit 3C, on easy-to-understand language
and audiovisual journalism.
The last unit, Unit 4, is about the profession
and will approach some of the skills needed to work in the field.
EASIT has produced a wide array of educational materials:
Video presentations.
There are video lectures, which are based on a slide presentation,
and other types of videos such as samples,
interviews with professionals and users and so on.
Additional materials for some of the videos,
that is, links to webpages where you can learn more
about a specific aspect.
Reading lists for each of the units, with suggested references.
A questionnaire for each of the units, plus some suggested tasks
that trainers can do in class.
These materials are useful for both self-learners
and also for trainers who want to use them in their classes.
We’ve tried to make the materials as accessible as possible.
This is why we offer them in different formats.
For example, for video lectures you have access to the video,
but also to the audio only as a podcast,
the slide presentation, the transcript, and the subtitles in English
and in other languages, if available.
The materials are available at the UAB’s open access repository DDD,
and they can also be accessed through a dedicated website.
They are free to use, so I welcome you to use them
for self-learning or in your classes
if you are a trainer.