Creatability: Exploring Ways to Make creative tools more accessible for everyone

 

Creatability is the word for a series of resources developed to make the arts more available to users with disabilities, empowered by Google.

The tools include a keyboard in which players use their face, body mouse, or keyboard to interact. It's a canvas that you can draw on by using your face and a tool called Body Synth allows you to only move your body to make music. 

A simple musical keyboard you can play with your face, body, mouse, or keyboard can be found in the Creatabilty collection. 

A drawing tool that works through both sight and sound can be found in the Creatabilty collection. 

Make music by just moving your body can be found in the Creatabilty collection. 

Here is a short video of how these amazing tools became a reality! You too can play and create music by just using your body. 

                                                                                      video provided by Google

Click here to get started on your amazing musical project with your students. 

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There's a New Kid in Town for Canvas Users

Well, really it's just a new RCE - Rich Content Editor - that is! What is an RCE? It is a fancy acronym (can't survive without them) for the line of tools in a program that allow you to add formatting to text. Think underline, bold, color, font, hyperlink, etc. AND... Canvas has a new one!

What is the New Rich Content Editor? Well in the words of Canvas: The New Rich Content Editor is an update to the previous Canvas Rich Content Editor. It provides a condensed, more intuitive toolbar that is grouped by common icons and interactions. 

The New Canvas RCE reorganizes the current tools under a Menu Bar and a Tool bar consolidating like tools for ease of use and placement.

Menu Bar

The Menu Bar consists of drop-down menus of grouped formatting tools and includes all of the 'quick-access' Tool Bar items plus more.

Tool Bar

The Tool  Bar consists of quick access to the most common options used in the Rich Content Editor. Because of the condense nature of the new RCE, your muscle memory may take some time to catch up to the changes!

• Links, Images, Media and Apps (External LTI Tools) have a slightly different look. Be sure to use the drop-down arrows to access what you may be searching for.

• Some of your favorite tools may have moved below the Content Field.  

👀You don't see the new RCE? Well, that's because you will need to turn it on in your course UNLESS you wait until January 4, 2021 - at that time, we will turn it on for you!

Before using the new RCE, you MUST turn it on in Settings for each course. Here's how:

1. Open your Canvas Course
2. Go to SETTINGS in the course navigation (left side of the screen)
3. Choose FEATURE OPTIONS at the top
4. Turn ON RCE Enhancements

🤩Canvas Resources:

New RCE Video (This is a great 5 minute overview.)

Canvas Rich Content Editor UI Overview

Working Together is Success - Sharing Folders

Up until recently, it was not possible to share FOLDERS inside a Google Shared Drive (formerly known as Team Drives). This latest update will benefit our educators collaborating with teams, administrators, and students. Although roles can be specified at the Shared Drive level, additional contributors can be assigned to sub-folders within the drive. Read more here.

View How to Share a Folder within a Shared Drive

Steps Explaining How to Share a Folder within a Shared Drive

1. While in Google Drive, click on the preferred SHARED DRIVE:
   
   
2. Right-click on the preferred sub-folder and select SHARE:
   
3. Select the preferred role and click SEND:
   
   
   
   
4. Confirm the role and click DONE:
   
   
   
5. Utilize the ALL, GUESTS, and MEMBERS tabs in the SHARE window to view all users associated with the selected folder: