ICCHP Summer University

Workshop leader: Mike Sivill (ViewPlus, USA)
Duration: 1:45 hours

The ICCHP Summer University is a unique place to Visually Impaired students to learn about Assistive Technologies which might help them to work on Maths, Science and Statistics. Workshops allow them to access a practical training. When possible the students will use their own computers, and leave back home with the software installed on their machines, ready to be used. In the case it is impossible (commercial software, incompatibility with system, installation failed for some reason), they will use computers provided by the Summer University.

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
July 29 - August 3

After the success of the Summer University in Vienna, July 2010, the second Summer University will be hosted at Masaryk University in Brno. The program will include 4 full days of hands on workshop dedicated to visually impaired students, their teachers and their support centres. The program will include workshops about the latest and most useful technologies that are currently available to enable visually impaired people to access mathematical content and to do calculations. Most topics presented in 2010 will be (see report), for some of them several levels will be proposed (allowing students who attended in 2010 to reach a higher level) and new topics will be proposed.