Hi, I’m Kendra! I have been teaching math here at Davidson-Davie Community College since 2012. I have been a Digital Accessibility Leader since January 2023. I have always had a strong passion for accessibility. This is a personal passion of mine because I often need to have an increased contrast between colors to see them well. Additionally, I often need to have captions and/or transcripts to better focus, understand, and retain information.

I participated in a Summer Accessibility Project in 2016, which consisted of training, evaluating our time to make content accessible, and determining what resources were needed to make content accessible. I was trained on the following topics: screen reader, images, video, hyperlinks, color/contrast, Word documents, PowerPoints, and PDF documents. I focused on making my MAT 152 course accessible during the project. While attending SPARC, a STEM focused conference, at Gaston College, I attended a hands-on digital accessibility workshop. I also attended the Creating Accessible Math Workshop at the NC3ADL conference.

So far in this position, I have continued to expand my knowledge of document accessibility through Deque University courses. I meet with Amy Holmes, director of digital accessibility, on a biweekly basis to discuss product testing, professional development sessions, and other accessibility concerns. I have also helped with the Digital Accessibility workshops for different groups of faculty. We will continue these workshops through the semester.

As your Digital Accessibility Leader, I can do the following:

By Gretchen Benton

As we near the end of the Spring I term, you may have students who have been granted a course incomplete. If your student needs to maintain access to their Moodle course past the course end date, please complete this form!

This form alerts IT to update the student’s role in Moodle. The “Incomplete Student” role allows the student to access the course past the course end date, however you may still need to grant a user override for assignments, topics, or activities that have a past due date or cut-off date. If you have any issues please email edtech@davidsondavie.edu.

Students at the Davie Campus watched Edible Insects as a recent passport event and had the option of trying baked goods made with cricket powder!

By Trudy Brown

In this episode of the Learning Conversations podcast, Phil interviews Eileen Hammond who teaches communication courses at DDCC. Eileen talks some about her experiences as a communications instructor before the conversation moves on to what she learned in her travels to Italy with a group of DDCC instructors, students, and community members. Listen as Eileen shares the lessons she learned about herself and about the importance of global education.

Are you looking for something relaxing, educational, and fun to do? DDCC's Continuing Education is offering two upcoming opportunities that may be of interest to you!