From March 24th to May 2nd, 2022, a series of co-design sessions were held at an elementary school in the Greater Toronto Area that specializes in working with students with intellectual and physical disabilities. Four classes with students in different age groups participated in learning basic directions while trying the Weavly coding environment . ...
Indigeverse Multimedia Festival
April 25, 2022
Through FLOE, the IDRC recently participated in a panel discussion at the Indigeverse Multimedia Festival . Together with other project team members, we presented an overview of some recent work on an ecocultural mapping project. The presentation was a preview of an upcoming Indigenous Design Collective workshop, where we will discuss the project in more ...
Weavly Educator's Toolkit
March 28, 2022
The Floe Project has been contributing to the tools and resources in the Weavly Educator’s Toolkit . Educators can find a collection of techniques and strategies to help create and set up an accessible environment for coding education. The collection of activities in the toolkit are meant to scaffold coding concepts and make coding fun. Weavly is a tool ...
Co-design Toolkit Updates
October 12, 2021
The FLOE project is documenting and sharing new learnings about working remotely and engaging people with diverse needs with the global community of Inclusive Design practitioners through the Community-Led Co-Design Kit . The BEING Futures project was a collaboration between the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and BEING Studio. The goal of this ...
Virtual Health OER
July 6, 2021
Two new health related Open Educational Resources are now available: the Guide for Reducing Barriers to Virtual Health and its accompanying Personal Preferences Approach to personalizing healthcare . The guide has two main purposes: 1) to identify the virtual healthcare needs of Canadians and 2) to provide guidance for reducing the barriers in receiving ...