Focal Point Training

Group photo at Focal Point Training in Philippine

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There were 10 participants including 3 visually impaired in this training representing 7 different organizations. The training was conducted for 5 days at ATRIEV.

This training course focused on NCC only production using MyStudio PC and Sigtuna DAR 3 and full text production using Sigtuna DAR 3.

All of the participants were able to create at least 5 different DTBs during this training. For the final project, all of the participants were able to produce Full Text projects and on the last day of the training, all participants presented their final projects and their action plans.

Group photo at Focal Point Training in Indonesia

Goals

The training was undertaken with the aim of achieving the following goals:

Group photo at Focal Point Training in Pakistan

Goals

The training was undertaken with the aim of achieving the following goals:

• Ability of participants to use DAISY production tools to create DAISY 2.02 digital talking books
• Ability of participants to create DAISY 2.02 files

Prerequisites

• Some exposure to or familiarity with, or knowledge of DAISY.

Outcomes

• Understanding of the scope, usability and functionality of the DAISY technology
• Understanding of basic XHTML
• Understanding of NCC-Only and Full-text production workflow, techniques and tools
• Understanding of the DAISY DTB fileset

During the Training #1

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This training course focused on NCC only production using MyStudio PC and Sigtuna DAR 3 and full text production using Sigtuna DAR 3.

Goals

The training was undertaken with the aim of achieving the following goals:

Goals

The training was undertaken with the aim of achieving the following goals:

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This training course focused on NCC only production using MyStudio PC and Sigtuna DAR 3 and full text production using Sigtuna DAR 3.

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This training course focused on NCC only production and full text production using Sigtuna DAR 3. Since there was a session on MyStudio PC prior to the Focal Point Training, this course only covered the usage of Sigtuna DAR 3 and basics of DAISY DTB.

Since the level of the trainees were different, it could have been pretty slow for some trainees and pretty fast for some trainees. Also, there were some people who are not really familiar with the usage of the computer and it was really difficult for those people to operate on the production tool.

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This training course focused on NCC only production and full text production. It was the request from the organizer to cover mainly on NCC only production and basics of full text production. At the beginning of the course, there were not many people who knew about DAISY and it was a good idea to spend a lot of time for NCC only production for those people to understand the basics of DAISY. Since the half of the trainees were visually impaired, the first 1/3 was dedicated to the usage of MyStudio PC.

Since only few people have worked on HTML, creation of the XHTML file was done after the first full text project with already prepared XHTML was created. This made them understand how full text project works. It was quite difficult for some people to understand fully about the basics of XHTML, CSS and MDF were not explicitly addressed.

Since the level of the trainees were different, it could have been pretty slow for some trainees and pretty fast for some trainees. However, at the end of the training course, most of the trainees finished at least 3 NCC only projects and 2 full text projects.