2022 ATHEN Virtual STEM Conference Schedule

  • All sessions are scheduled for 45 minutes with a 15 minute break between meeting times.
  • All sessions will be recorded and made available to conference attendees.
  • All sessions will be closed captioned.

Thursday February 10, 2022

Session Details for February 10, 2022

 

Zoom Room 1

(Host: RaLynn McGuire)

Zoom Room 2

(Host: Dawn Hunziker)

 Zoom Room 3

(Host: Krista Greear)

Noon-12:45 EasternKeynote: Arbitrarily Close to Access in STEM (Zach Lattin)N/AN/A
1:00 – 1:45 EasternStarting where they are – helping lecturers to create accessible maths (Lilian Joy (née Soon) and Natalie Curran)The Learning Curve: Supporting Students in STEM courses (Martina Svyantek)Enhancing server-side MathJax rendering with common ARIA patterns to provide robust, richly accessible equation layout at scale (Peter Krautzberger)
2:00 – 2:45 EasternBlind and Sighted Access Math Together in New Ways (Betsey Doane)Adding Voice in an accessible manner to PDF files (Sharon Austin)Computational approach to teach upper division mathematics classes to diverse audiences (Haohao Wang and Jerzy Wojdylo)
3:00 – 3:45 EasternSolidifying the Delivery of Math Content in the Online Environment (Gabriel Angrand, Rashmi Kumar, Amrou Ibrahim)A gentle touch – solutions when Alt Text is not possible (Jason Khurdan)Using tactile graphics to enhance math comprehension in STEM (Dan Gardner)

Friday, February 11, 2022

Session Details for February 11, 2022

 

Zoom Room 1

(Host: RaLynn McGuire)

Zoom Room 2

(Host: Dawn Hunziker)

 Zoom Room 3

(Host: Krista Greear)

Noon – 12:45 EasternTools Consideration for Accessible Mathematical Digital Content (Brad Held)Accessible and Digital Math Made Easy with EquatIO (Rachel Kruzel and Louis Shanafelt)Accessible Calculus Instruction for Blind Students: Rethinking Visual Components of the Course (Michael Kerckhove, Emily Helft, and Lily Dickson)
1:00 – 1:45 EasternThe Race Behind the Learning: Making Math Accessible (Darren Gabbert and Angela Branson)Your Screen Reader Got an F in Arithmetic! (Brian Richwine)Using a Virtual Laboratory Assistant to Provide Accessible Procedures and Equations in STEM Laboratory Courses (Jacob Watters)
2:00 – 2:45 EasternClosing Session: Math in my world: accessibility through choice of assessment (Marisha Marks and Ann Simao)N/AN/A