{"id":83007,"date":"2022-09-27T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83007"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:45:57","slug":"instructional-audio-4-benefits-to-improving-it-ofgang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/09\/27\/instructional-audio-4-benefits-to-improving-it-ofgang\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructional Audio: 4 Benefits to Improving It [Ofgang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/how-to\/instructional-audio-4-benefits-to-improving-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Instructional Audio: 4 Benefits to Improving It<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang<br \/>\n<em>Ensuring every classroom has instructional audio capabilities helps all students hear what the teacher is saying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sound is a key component of education. If students can\u2019t hear their instructor well, they\u2019re clearly not going to focus or learn as much. That\u2019s why more and more schools are investing in instructional audio systems, which are high-tech public address systems designed with classrooms, teachers, and\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>students in mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Terri Meier is director of education technology for Rio Rancho Public Schools in New Mexico where all new classrooms are being built with voice amplification systems in place and many existing classrooms are being retrofitted with similar systems.<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> These systems are key for schools in their accessibility efforts and in providing quality instruction overall, she says.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>And speaking of accessibility-related postings\/items, also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\/4-ways-to-improve-your-web-accessibility-audits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>4 Ways to Improve Your Web Accessibility Audits<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from boia.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructional Audio: 4 Benefits to Improving It &#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang Ensuring every classroom has instructional audio capabilities helps all students hear what the teacher is saying. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Sound is a key component of education. If students can\u2019t hear their instructor well, they\u2019re clearly not going to focus or learn as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,53,8,32,46,87,84,321,367,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-accessibility-udl","category-digital-audio","category-education-technology","category-k-12-related","category-learning-spaces","category-smart-classrooms","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-web-design-and-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83012,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83007\/revisions\/83012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}