We are thrilled to share some exciting news with you – our Digital Asset Management (DAM) implementation initiative is officially underway with the Acquia DAM solution. 

Humber’s DAM Implementation Initiative focuses on creating a centralized digital asset library, comprising various media types such as photos, videos, and graphics. The goal is to ensure easy searchability, organization, distribution, and secure storage of assets, providing users with high-quality resources to support their work. 

Key Features and Benefits 

• Access to a library of curated photos, videos, graphics, and other digital content that is easily searchable 
• Streamlined asset management processes 
• Improved collaboration and sharing capabilities 
• Enhanced brand consistency and user experience 
• Support permissions/roles, AI, metadata management and single sign-on integration 

Invitation to Learn More 

We invite you to watch this short Acquia DAM Video about the new DAM solution coming to Humber. 

Stay Informed 

Watch for future communication and ways to get involved. In the meantime, if you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Jill Rosenberg at jill.rosenberg@humber.ca. 

Are you interested in learning more about research intellectual property?  

Humber's Office of Research and Innovation has made available an asynchronous training module, "Research Intellectual Property", on BlackBoard Ultra which is available to Humber employees and students. The self registration instructions are attached.

Have questions? Please contact Tania Massa, Associate Dean, Applied Research and Innovation.

The Employability Skills Hub Student Project team is collaborating with Humber College to develop a fresh platform aimed at assisting students in managing and tracking their skills, as well as potentially network with prospective employers and showcase their skills to the world.

The team would appreciate if Humber faculty would encourage their students to share their input to make sure we're building something that is truly benefitial. You can direct them to the questionnaire through the link below.

Complete the questionnaire

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Have you ever considered how much we rely on the use of colour as educators and learners? Think about it for a few minutes. And then, think about what your experience as an educator and/or learner would be like if you could not easily differentiate between colours. 

• An estimated 2.6 million Canadians are colour blind. This is because of a missing or mutated gene on their X chromosome. One in 12 men (8%) and one in 200 women (0.5%) are colour blind. (4) 
• While people with normal color vision see over one million shades of color, the color blind only see an estimated 10 per cent of hues and shades. (3) 
• Common color confusions include green and yellow, gray and pink, purple and blue, and red and brown, with colors appearing muted and dull. Since 80 per cent of information is conveyed visually, this creates issues for color blind students. (3) 
• View online for more images of how the color blind see colors. (3) 
• At best, any situation which requires a colour blind learner to understand information based on colour only is likely to be at best a challenge and at worst an impossibility for them. (2) 
• Subjects most impacted by Colour Blindness are maths, all areas of science, geography, sport and art but some aspects of other subjects, such as languages and media studies, can also cause issues. (2) 
• Maps, graphs and charts are widely used in many different subjects but can be extraordinarily difficult for colour blind students to interpret. They will frequently miss important information unless maps/graphs/charts, etc. are also fully labelled using text, symbols or patterns. (2) 
• Ensuring Accessibility in design is a form of empathy: trying to reach beyond your own personal perspective to try to understand other people who, in this case, very literally don’t see the world the same way you do. (1) 

Check out this TEDx Talk entitled It’s Not Easy Seeing Green: The Complexities of Color Blindness for more insight on the experience of those with colour blindness.  

Sources: 

1. https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle   
2. Secondary School & Higher Education - Colour Blind Awareness 
3. Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence That Color Blindness Hinders Learning in School, Reports EnChroma | Business Wire 
4. https://www.express-scripts.ca/raising-health/colour-blindness-what-colours-do-you-see#:~:text=An%20estimated%202.6%20million%20Canadians,gene%20on%20their%20X%20chromosome 

Visit our ALS Information for Faculty website to learn more about accommodating students with disabilities.  

Please email us at accessible-learning@humber.ca with suggestions for key accessibility-related topics that you would like us to address through the Communiqué.