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Antecedent exercise –

Low tech, with mid-tech supplements – gonoodle/ youtube – Jack Hartman

-         The goal of antecedent exercise is to get the students heart rate up.

-         It is suggest that this will take about 30 min of movement to achieve the goal. In kinder we can probably get away with 10-15 min of consistent movement.

In kindergarten students will often come in and start their day still asleep.

-         We do centers first thing in the morning, and for students who have the need we could incorporate the antecedent exercise right in the center time -  Acting out verbs, or building letters out of hands/ bodies will be considered, as well as doing movement exercises with Jack Hartman on Youtube. Moving around the classroom/ adaptive seating will also be considered (seating bands, seat cushions, foot stomp). One boy loves to jump and do his work, we can turn this into a game. Jump ten times, what is the 10th letter in the alphabet?

Reaching all learners –

-         I am in both Kinder and 1st grade. The time I have in each class room is critical, I may not get more time later. If a child is asleep, I generally will not wake them up. I will try the next day to catch the child before they fall asleep in class, in this time I will use the antecedent exercise to engage and to get the child’s hart rate up. This means that all students are learning, even if they come into the building sleepy.

https://www.interventioncentral.org/behavior_management_antecedent_exercise

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This website has many resources for academic, behavior, to create materials to support tiered system in your school (RTI) and helps to general quick Curriculum-Based Assessments for Reading, writing, math.

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Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards.

[24 April 2017] Class Pass: Escape Breaks. The Class Pass intervention reduces disruptive behavior by allowing the student to use a limited number of passes to take brief work breaks to engage in preferred activities. Find out more!

[7 Sept 2016] Wise Feedback. When offered constructive criticism, students can become defensive and shut down. Instead, teachers can use 'wise feedback' to .ensure that their well-intentioned feedback is accepted and acted upon.

[7 Sept 2016] School-Home Note. Managing classroom behaviors is not always easy. A simple strategy that enlists both school and home to improve motivation and behavior is the school-home note.

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Intervention Central is the leading resource for Response to Intervention (RTI) tools and resources, including academic and behavior interventions for classroom management.

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Part I: Explore CAST Website, especially UDL Guidelines,  and Read UDL Textbook.
Part II: Create Resource Padlet 3: UDL Principles, Guidelines & Assistive Technology:

1. Find minimum of TWO relevant and evidence-based UDL resources and/or assistive technology low tech, mid-tech or high-tech, videos, links, apps, handouts, or any resource that will support learners to access learning)  that you may use it in your classroom to support your school-age learners.  Explain how will you use it in your classroom. Give concrete examples explaining integration of technology in your classroom and how will it engage students in learning process.

Indicate how do you plan to use  the two identified technology in your classroom -- provide concrete examples explaining integration of technology in your classroom and how will it engage students in learning process.

Consider  and explain how technology and/or UDL framework supports social justice, inclusion, and/or diversity in your classroom.

5. See examples: International Children's Digital Library; and Intervention Central. Org

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Graphic organizers can range from a low-tech resource to a high tech resource that can help promote engagement and confidence when tasks seem overwhelming. Graphic organizers break assignments into smaller and more feasible tasks. There are endless amounts of graphic organizers available and multiple ways you can use them in the classroom to help organize students thinking. I use graphic organizers with my whole class specifically for reading and writing. Graphic organizers have been specifically helpful for two students I have that are diagnosed with ADD and have difficulty staying on task.
Here is a site where there are many forms of graphic organizers.

https://sites.google.com/view/freeudltechtoolkit/graphic-organizers

A site I found useful for making graphic organizer templets is;
https://app.mindmup.com/map/new/1615149282381

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https://sites.google.com/view/freeudltechtoolkit/graphic-organizers

This web site offers multiple modes of presenting Graphic Organizers to your students. These include apps, chrome extensions, and computer based options. This would be great for students in my Resources Center English classrooms because it gives the students options to choose which format works best for your learning style.

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https://techmatrix.org/
Techmatrix is a searchable database for assistive and educational technologies. You can search by subject, grade level, and IDEA disability category. I think this would be a helpful tool if you needed something more than what your classroom or school district had to offer.

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Books are available in multiple languages and from different parts of the world. This library has many free books and resources from around the world. This can be used for thematic units in class.
Classroom Connection: This digital library will be available to students to explore books from different culture on the theme or topic that is  going on in class. The focus of using multicultural literature is to help students to be aware of the different culture, build tolerance and respect for other cultures and language.  This link will be set up on student and classroom computers. So, during reading time, students can use the link for simply reading books from different culture.

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ICDL - International Children’s Digital Library

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Google speech to text technology imbedded in Google suites

This feature is free to use, easy to set up, and is built into any google suite (slides, docs, form, etc). The speech to text feature allows for students to dictate words out loud through a built in chromebook or laptop microphone which the speech to text technology will transcribe in writing where the students cursor of their mouse is selected.  The teacher will enable this feature on student one to one technology devices. This technology can effectively lower the demands for conventions of writing such as spelling on students as well as physical demands such as typing. It is also useful for students who have difficulty processing their thoughts to produce written output. This speeds up the process, so the student is verbalizing their thoughts, which the speech to text automatically records. The student can then go back and read over their dictated writing and revise and edit it for the final product.

For directions from google to enable speech to text feature, click the link- https://support.google.com/docs/answer/4492226?hl=en#zippy=

Or see these helpful tutorial videos on how to enable this feature and set it up for students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCgQ7Vfj_M

Classroom connection- I have an ESL student with a disability in my creative writing class who relies heavily on this feature to produce written work. Before this technology, the student could produce an insignificant amount of written product with multiple errors so as to obscure meaning for any given prompt. Now, the student has substantial written product with less errors and clear meaning because the student can speak and listen to English better than writing it. The demands on the student cognitively and linguistically are lessened, and the student is able to express themselves and explore their creative potential better not because of it. In this way, the assistive technology promotes inclusion and gives better access to diverse peers in the creative writing classroom.

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1. An example of  low tech, research based assistive resource  could be a graphic organizer and timer. While there are online models that can serve the same purpose (like Google Slides), sometimes students become too consumed with the tech and the options that they lose sight of the content application. I like paper versions best. I also find using a simple timer (projected on the board for all students to see) can help them keep track of when they should be moving on to the next bubble or concept.
2. An example of a  mid-tech assistive device would be a computer used as an audio player (book on tape or YouTube) allowing speech-to-text, word predictive responses.

An example of how this could be used is students could be given two reading passages, say the fight scene between Beowulf and Grendel. One passage could be from the Anglo Saxon version of Beowulf's POV, and the other could be from Gardner's version that offers Grendel's POV. They could listen and read along to the audio version while taking notes on the graphic organizer citing differences in the character's view of the experience. They would be guided along on this task by the timer on the board. For students who prefer to the electronic version of response they could speech -to-text their responses in paragraph form using the graphic organizer to guide their thought process.

This technology (UDL framework) supports social justice, inclusion, and/or diversity in your classroom because it does not limit students based on language barriers of processing disorders because they are viewing and listening, while allowing the computer to make their responses for them by speech.

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Digital recorders can range from mid-tech to high- tech forms of assistive technology. One resource I specifically use is a free recording device on the website below.
https://online-voice-recorder.com/
This resource allows students to record their ideas and hear it played back auditorily. I find this helpful for writing. Specifically, in my classroom, I use it for my students that are having difficulty processing and formulating their sentences. They record one sentence at a time. Then, count how many words. Followed by writing the words on paper. I highly recommend this resource because it allows students to play back their idea over and over again until they have all their processed information or thoughts on written paper. I have also found it very engaging for my struggling writers because they feel more confident not needing as much assistance from the teacher. It is something they can use independently.

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Classkick

High-Tech

Classkick is an online platform that I utilize in virtual learning. It allows teachers to upload, create, and share assignments all the while monitoring student progress and providing immediate feedback in real time as students work on their tasks from home. Feedback may be given in the form a of a cute sticker (which the students love), a comment/text, or even as a voice recording. I love to use this resource especially during Math lessons. Classkick allows me to see what students are doing and how they are doing in that exact moment. Students have the ability to raise their hand, ask questions, etc. from their teacher and even their peers! It is a free app and easily links to Google Classroom. Although, informal and formal assessments are created or uploaded to this app for students to demonstrate their understanding on a given concept, idea, or topic… I listed this resource under Engagement for the reason that it is engages students in their learning and connects us digitally allowing us to communicate in real time. Plus, when I use this app, I find that more students complete their assignments because I can “see” what they are doing and how they are doing, I can also see when they are doing it.

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Highlight Readers

Low-tech (SUPER LOW TECH)

My students have multiple and severe disabilites. So these trackers (picture below) are so so awesome at helping my students stay focused on the line that we are reading. It helps them block out lines above and below and reduce distractions. It works to help them stay on task (which is literally my biggest behavioral issue in my classroom). It is an easily accessible and cheap and easy to implement.

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Reading Guide Highlighter Strips, Set of 5 (Blue, Orange, Green, Pink and Yellow)

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Amazon.com : Reading Guide Highlighter Strips, Set of 5 (Blue, Orange, Green, Pink and Yellow) : Office Products

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https://happynumbers.com/
Happy Numbers is an app as well as a website for students to work on at home or at school. The teacher inputs the class roster and sets up a baseline test. Once the test is complete by each student the source places each student at their own level. Students then work at their own pace. Once students master a topic their monster grows. The site/app will not allow students to go on until they have the topic mastered. It is great for differentiation as it is based on each students level. The teacher can also assign students a specific topic if you know they need extra help on a specific area.

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Math Centers that Deliver - Differentiation Done Right | HappyNumbers.com

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While you teach small groups, Happy Numbers serves as an independent math center, providing individualized instruction for the rest of the class.

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Virtual Reality Field Trips and Tours

Google has either collected access to, uploaded, or created immersive VR and AR learning experiences from around the world that can be accessed in the current hybrid learning environment. This free site and subsequent applications gives access to collections of cultural artifacts and stories from around the world which will enable all learners to explore using as much real life sensory stimulation as possible.

Click the link to the hope page where access to museums, archives, and experiences can be found- https://artsandculture.google.com/

Classroom Connections- Any teacher can integrate this technology by searching relevant experiences based on content and topic, then build exploration time into a lesson so students can experience the information and sensory stimuli in their own way. For example, after reading and discussing the enlightenment period in literature, the students and teachers may embark on a virtual reality tour of the Palazzo Vecchio Museum in Italy to view art from the same time period, then reflect on the same principles evident in the art as in the written work from the time. This makes the learning come to life for students through multiple modes and intelligences as well as gives them access to cultures they may have never been aware of or exposed to before. Students will leave the experiences with heightened awareness of diversity and diverse cultures.

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Book Creator

High-Tech

Book creator is an online resource where students have the opportunity to create, share, publish, and read digital books designed and written by themselves and/or their peers. This site allows students to be creative, demonstrate reading and writing skills, as well as share their interests with others. Students are able to use an array of tools provided by the app in order to create their book(s). Students may add illustrations, images, videos, and audio to their books. Students are able to use this resource with any technological device, such as an iPad, laptop, or Chromebook. I have used this in my classroom as the final step to a writing assignment. Students LOVED this part of the assignment. They loved learning about the different tools and options they could use, navigating the site, creating their book, and even sharing their book with their classmates.

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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After familiarizing myself with this module, I came to realize I use  many different kinds of research based assistive technology each day in class! Some examples of low tech, research-based assistive resources that I have used with students include visual schedules, pencil grips, manipulatives such a cubes or number  lines and adaptive paper. Visual schedules are great for all learners of different ages and abilities. Students who have difficulty staying on task during the day benefit from having a small schedule in front of them not only displayed in the classroom for all to see but also at their desk. ( I laminated a small one for students to check off with a dry erase marker as well go through our day! This promotes self regulation, independence as well as reinforces the concept of time.)

Pencil Grips as well as a adaptive paper (such as hi-write paper!) assists in allowing students to further develop fine motor skills. I have found this year, coming off of a virtual school year, I have used these resources more than even due to the fact that virtual learning did not provide students with many opportunities to write with pencil and paper. Because of this, handwriting skills have regressed in many. The pencil grip helps to reinforce the proper grip while the adaptive paper allows the student to be aware of the lines and how to use the lines as a visual guide when forming letters.

An example of mid tech assistive technology is an audio book. The audio book is excellent when combined with a text because it allows the student to work independently and listen to the text and follow along to assist with word recognition. I use audio books during literacy center time and the student love it!

An example of a high tech assistive technology resource includes text to speech options when using a computer. Text to speech increases learning for students in certain situations, allows them to understand and comprehend a text.  Text to speech is a great tool to allow students access to grade level texts that they may not be able to read independently which promotes inclusion. Text to speech is an accommodation that is also often used when taking tests, especially standardized testing. After reading through the different types of technology I realized I have utilized this in my classroom and also got some new ideas for the future.

Technology and the UDL framework can be used to promote social justice, inclusion and diversity. The various means of technology allow educators to meet learners on their level and support students in the ways that they need to meet learning goals. This includes the various accommodations that technology provides. The various assistive technologies help to  level the playing field for students. The UDL framework allows educators to take a closer look in preparing content to ensure that all learners can access the curriculum through meaningful opportunities on their level through engagement, representation, action and expression. These guidelines help to ensure all learners are included and supported.

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One resource that I found that would be useful in my classroom is self-check behavior checklist maker. This allows teachers to make checklists for students to monitor their own classroom behavior. What I like most about this checklist maker is that you can create it to fit the individual student and their needs. Some of my students require daily checklists as per their IEP. This aligns with the Charlotte Danielson Rubric 3D: Using Assessment in Instruction. It allows students to monitor their learning and understanding. To use this tool in my classroom, I plan to create a checklist based on the needs of my students. Not all students may have the same checklist because I have a variety of learners in my class. Some students in my class lack organization skills. For those students, I will provide checklists that they can go through to make sure they are prepared for each lesson. Other students need to work on appropriate behaviors in the classroom. For these students, I will provide checklists for specific behaviors. Example: Raise hand before speaking. I found this resource on  https://www.interventioncentral.org/tools/self-check-behavior-checklist-maker.

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Whiteboard.chat
Whiteboard Chat is a highly engaging tool to use during virtual learning or in the classroom. I have used this many times especially in the area of mathematics to check for understanding. Each student is provided with their own whiteboard. They can only view the teacher's whiteboard and their own. However, as the educator, you can see all of your students' whiteboards. I have used this as a check-up to see at the end of a lesson in person and virtually to see who is understanding the concept and who may need further assistance. It is a highly effective tool to integrate into your daily classroom routine!

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Whiteboard.chat - Interactive Online Whiteboard for Teachers and Students

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https://www.rossmanchance.com/ISIapplets.html

The link above contains a plethora of statistics applets. These are little pre-built, lightweight software programs that can quickly represent different characteristics of different types of data and data analysis. More often than not, doing an example problem in Statistics class can take the whole class period. On days that I am reviewing concepts, processes, and ideas I have introduced in days previous, I take advantage of these quick, always ready to go applets to show how what we have learned behaves in real world settings without having to take the time to create the data sets and do the graphical analysis myself. That would have me feeling like I am recreating the wheel, because there are so many resources on this website and many others that have pre-built data sets, graphing, and data analysis built right in so that all I have to do as a teacher is teach (imagine that, hahahaha). Having these at my disposal and the fact they they run so smoothly and are quick to start up has made a difference for my students and they get to see so much more in terms of data analysis and how it can change with changes to the underlying data itself than if I had to make all of these graphs and data sets myself. I already use these all the time.

I could just not take class time on this, but what if a student doesn't have a computer or internet at home? What if they do but it's taken up by their siblings or parents? In terms of social justice, me introducing my students to things like this and how to analyze data on Excel only opens doors for those students that do not have the resources at home. School is a place where students should gain and have access to resources they may not have at home. This is part of the reason why I take a significant amount of time to expose my students to tools such as this.

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https://sites.google.com/view/freeudltechtoolkit/literacy-tools

This website provides websites that tools to help with literacy and would be perfect to explore for an ELL classroom. There are multiple tools for early intervention with literacy and grade specific resources.

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Flipgrid
Flipgrid is an interactive tool that allows students to express themselves through the computer by speaking aloud for a certain amount of time. The educator can set the assignment up and provide the students any materials they made need through the website. The educator can also set the time that they would like the student to participate for. I have used Flipgrid during the virtual learning pandemic to engage my students in our Readers' Workshop material, Writers' Workshop , and with each other. I have had the students read aloud for one minute so that I could provide them feedback on their fluency and accuracy. I have also had them share their writing pieces to provide feedback to one another. It has been an extremely successful technology tool this school year!

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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I plan to use the app/site Happy Numbers in my UDL plan. This site allows students to work at their own pace based on a benchmark test given when students first start using the source. It is perfect for extra help, centers, and at home connection work. I plan to use this high-tech resource in centers. It will provide differentiation for each student to work at their own pace at their own level.  The second resource  I plan to use is YouTube for videos. These videos will be used at lesson hooks, lesson recaps, and brain breaks between whole group and small group instruction. Some educational Youtube channels I plan to use are Jack Hartman, Scratch Garden, and Harry Kindergarten.  A video lesson hook is great because it gets the class into the math lesson. It also can review what was taught the day before to either reinforce a topic or help re teach a topic to other students.
Technology in the classroom is great, specially this day in age. Students are good with technology and respond well to it. It is great for inclusion because even though each student may be on a different site, or on a different level they are all on computers making the classroom community feel as one.

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Speechbot

Speechbot is an app that is available through the App Store for Apple products or also through the Play store for other devices. It is a comprehensive application that allows a student (or really any person) to take a picture of a piece of text with their phone and it creates a digital reading of it. It reads it at different paces. It also allows for different voices (male and female) as well as different dialects of voices. It offers different languages as well. This is useful for a student or person with difficulty in reading to access materials out in the community or at school. My students use it currently to help with difficult passages during homework or other class time (mostly during independent time). What I like most about this app is that it stores what you have taken a picture of and you can go back to access it at any time. Also, it would be beneficial for taking pictures of class notes that it can be read back to the student at a later time!

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Whiteboard fi is a technology tool that I use in my remote classroom. I like whiteboard fi because when teaching remote, it is very difficult to monitor students’ work. My students have a difficult time showing me their work through the camera screen. I do allow them to take pictures of their assignments but that is very time consuming and sometimes cannot be done independently. Whiteboard fi allows me to view the students while they are working. This is a great way for me to monitor what my students are doing and how they are solving problems. I use this tool for quick checks and exit tickets. This allows me to check for student understanding remotely.

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The first application I have started to implement into my classroom is a Google Extension- Read Aloud Text to Speech Voice Recorder. This is tremendously helpful in all subject areas. When students are researching a topic for science or social studies, or reading math word problems, or researching a writing assignment, they can highlight and listen to text on the web without having to focus on decoding higher level text. Students can focus on the information without focusing on the decoding of words.This tool supports all learners and can be utilized on various content, which makes it inclusive to diversity in the classroom.

The second website I have started to implement is Flipgrid. Flipgrid allows students to express themselves through video recording. I have started to implement this through remote learning. I can alter the settings to have the video sent to me and not to the whole class or it can become an interactive tool for the students. Students can be creative and can tell stories as opposed to writing them on paper. It allows for students to focus on the task of explaining or telling without having to focus on the skill of spelling and writing. It can be applied to all content areas and can be utilized individually or as a classroom assignment, which makes it an inclusive tool in all classrooms. Fliogrid allows for learners to interact from any location, which assists in flexible instruction.

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The second resource that I found that is especially supportive for ELL learners is IXL! I use IXL nearly every day in my class and it is a great tool to help reinforce concepts that students are currently learning or need more practice with. IXL has a feature that allows students to press a speaker button to hear the questions read aloud to them. This is very helpful for my ELL learners. Additionally, IXL has the option for students to view an example of any problem, as well as explains the correct answer if they get a question wrong. IXL also meets the student where they are and will scaffold them with easier problems if it sees they are getting multiple answers in a row incorrect. Finally, IXL is a great way to help ELL students because it has visual representations of the problems that will help students with language barriers gain a better understanding of the math content.

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IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

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Seesaw

https://web.seesaw.me/about

I used and learned about this website in my undergraduate courses as one way for students to express themselves when the teacher gives an assignment to the class. I then used it when I did my student teaching with my third graders. There are multiple ways of handing in your assignment. You can send in a picture of something that you wrote or drew. You can record yourself giving the answer to the question the teacher had given. You can also type an answer and send it in that way. The teacher is then able to view who handed in their work and then allow it to be seen or not be seen by other classmates. If the teacher chooses to do so, then there can be a class discussion on some of the student’s work. Or the student can make comments on their classmate’s work.

When thinking about how this technology can help inclusion within the classroom, I believe that it gives the students an opportunity to express themselves in different ways which they are able to learn and grow from. This being said, the students do need to understand how to work the program, but once that is known, I think that it is kid friendly and teacher friendly. For my third graders last year, I used seesaw for comprehension checks on novels that we were reading. The kids were excited to use it because they were able to choose how they were going to explain their answer. I liked how they were engaged and willing to hand in their work.

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The first resource for engagement that I use in my classroom Is SmartyAnts. I use this in my classroom for a "free time" activity but it really helps me continually track and keep records of my students progress throughout the year. I enjoy using Smarty Ants because in the beginning and the middle of the year the program assesses students on their level and sends them to games to improve their specific skills. Additionally, this updates each week so that I can see how much time my students have spent on the application, what level they have reached, as well as how much scaffolding was needed at each level. Additionally, I have the option as the teacher to add ELL support if I notice that they are struggling on a certain section. This is helpful for students who are at varied levels in the class as well as intervention and reinforcement for skills that students are struggling with. I believe this would be considered a mid tech to high tech resource as there is some prior instruction that could be useful to help students know how to play each game.

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Available in English and Spanish and integrated to Google Classroom, Smarty Ants combines foundational skills instruction, independent practice, and embedded assessment in a single program with robust teacher supports. Students master complex phonics skills as they learn to decode phonemes and words and eventually read stories.

Scope and sequence inclusive of everything from letter identification to fluency!

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Resource Two:

EPIC

https://www.getepic.com/?utm_channel=search&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo-aCBhC-ARIsAAkNQitejxdBb5CRK_qc3eJ8LSGEX9r078NLoMcxoHc8fZtT_KM8QlS1dJgaAgXGEALw_wcB

I use this website for the students that I have currently. The main reason I wanted to use this because one of my students has dyslexia and it is challenging for him to read. This being said, I was told that having story read to him out loud while he reads along can help with reading. The students are able to pick books they like and that are on their Lexile level. Also, I am able to assign books to specific students and it will show up on their account. I can also see what books they have read or have just flipped through. It is easy to monitor each student from my account as well.

When thinking about how this technology can help inclusion within the classroom, I believe that it allows students with reading difficulties to gain quality information and it allows them to practice their reading skills. For example, I allow my students to go on EPIC for part of their free time and they are willing to read for ten to fifteen minutes. Sometimes I tell them them are not allowed to listen to a book, rather they are to read it to themselves. Other times, I have them read along with the book that is being read to them. This could change for each student because some students are able to read well and some need extra help, like the student who has dyslexia. The students do not know who is having a book read to them and who is reading to themselves. Or if I put them on a certain Lexile level, the students have no idea what their classmates are reading and the Lexile level that they are on. Overall, I think this is a great tool for all reading levels in the elementary age group.

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Reading is very imoprtant and "Epic!" allows an equal opportunity for all students to read. "Epic!" is available in both an app and a website. This technology offers authentic opportunities for students to engage in reading. "Epic!" offers a large variety of books that students can choose from that meet their intrests. What is also neat is that the teacher can assign books for the students to read and recieve reports on how many pages/books the student has read as well as their reading speed. "Epic!" has books that are bilingual and in Spanish, offering students who are new to English a chance to be comfortable reading in their native language. The read-to-me books allow for ELL students to listen at their own pace and hear authentic language as they follow along looking at the words and pictures. This platform contains thousands of books, audibooks, and educational videos; a great inclusive resource for every classroom!

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ChatterPix is an application that students can use as a form of narration. The students can record videos of themselves talking without the fear of public speaking. The app allows the students to use one of the available characters or take a picture of their own. The students then draw a line where they want the mouth to move on the picture, this is where the words will “come out” of. The student then records their voice and the application animates the picture to match their words. I found this to  be most resourceful for students who struggle to put their thoughts on paper, have social anxieties, and for those who excel with verbal communications. This app offers an inclusive way to present information and allows the students to show what they know in a fun low risk environment

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https://www.deltamath.com/overview

The website above is called Delta Math. Your district can pay for it and you can use it at your own will at that point. My district, Middle Township, just got it this year.

When it comes to Algebra, Geometery, etc., my goodness, Delta Math has it all. There are countess example practice problems that you can assign to your students. They are broken down into 1,200 different problem types, like exponents, long division, quadratics, and even differentiation (calculus). This is for middle school through high school. I use it to search by standard and assign problems based on what standard we are currently on. I use this resource currently and have been for a few months.

When it comes to those students who struggle, depending on how a problem is answered, the website responds in a different way to show you what you did wrong and how to fix it, sometimes in an interactive and step by step fashion. You can even assign "quizzes" for each problem type and it tracks students progress and only gives confirmation the student has learned the concept after answering enough questions without help.

In terms of social justice and diversity, students who are really good at math can move at their own pace and not get held back. On the other hand, those who struggle can also work and move forward at their own pace. I can see which questions students get wrong and focus on those concepts when I see them in class, while those that excel can move on when ready.

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Nearpod helps educators make any lesson interactive whether in the classroom or virtual. The concept is simple. A teacher can create interactive presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and more. Now students can interact and show understanding while live instruction occurs.
My school leadership team discovered this and are currently in the process of implementing in the classrooms. It can be linked with your google accounts and google classrooms. The lessons can be stored in a personal or school library.

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Nearpod helps educators make any lesson interactive, whether in the classroom or virtual. The concept is simple. A teacher can create interactive presentations that can contain Quizzes, Polls, Videos, Collaborate Boards, and more. You can access thousands of premade K-12 standards-aligned lessons or upload your existing lessons and make them interactive using Nearpod in the classroom. Nearpod makes teaching easier with the interactive tools, resources, and content teachers need, all in one place. You can sign up for a free account today and learn 5 ways to use a free Nearpod account.

The students can access a teacher's Live Participation presentation through a code, and the teacher then moves the class through the lesson and lets students interact with the media as they go. Teachers can also opt for Student-Paced mode, where the student controls the flow of the lesson. This mode is perfect for remote learning, hybrid learning, sub days, homework assignments, or independent work. The app is web-based and works on any device with an internet connection.

10 ways to use Nearpod in the classroom

Below are just ten simple ways you can utilize this multiple-solutions-in-one tool:

1. Simple presentation delivery

At its most simple, you can use Nearpod as a substitute for other presentation tools. Instead of running a Powerpoint or Google Slides, you can utilize Nearpod and make the lesson more interactive. You can even 'drag and drop' your existing Google Slides, PDFs, and PowerPoints into the app for it to instantly create a Nearpod presentation. Then you can select from countless interactive activities and formative assessments. The presentations will be beamed to each student's device in the classroom. You also do not have to rely on students being able to see the board.

2. Personalized provision and differentiation

Following on from the idea of using Nearpod as a simple presentation tool, you could isolate the use of the app to one student or a small group. It could be that you are beaming extra teaching provisions to particular pupils during a starter. This could be the missing link that provides more support for a child with visual impairments. It could provide that extra bit of help for a low attainer in your class. You can also duplicate the lesson and modify to deliver differentiated content to your students. You can edit these lessons with personalized formative assessment activities, collect feedback, and inclusive accessibility.

3. Distributing student resources

Using the app to distribute resources is another simple way of using it in the classroom. You can fill your presentation with images or worksheets and ask the students to use the Students Notes feature to save the presentation to their drive to access the information later when studying for an exam or completing homework.

4. Live formative assessment

The app can become even more useful if you insert one of Nearpod's many formative assessment activities into your presentation. As a teacher, you can create customized Quizzes, Polls, Open-ended Questions, Matching Pairs, Draw It activities, and more. Use these tools to view their responses and check for students' understanding in real-time. The teacher can instantly gain insights into the classes' overall understanding and make adjustments on the fly.

5. Interactive gamification and activities

One simple way to implement Nearpod into your daily instruction is to have students do an interactive activity. Add interest and excitement into everyday learning with Drag & Drop, Draw It, Time to Climb, Matching Pairs, and Collaborate Board. To review a unit use the gamified multiple-choice quiz, Time to Climb. With Collaborate Board, teachers can host classroom discussions with students using an interactive board to share ideas in real-time.

6. Self-assessment

It is common practice in Primary and Secondary schools for students to assess themselves and evaluate their own confidence levels. This is usually achieved through a traffic light system that children are encouraged to draw in their workbooks. Red indicates a poor confidence level, amber indicates a fair understanding and green indicates a very good understanding of any given learning topic.

Nearpod contains the option of inserting a 'Poll'. In this situation, students' opinions are questioned. This makes the 'Polling' tool a perfect feature to use when 'traffic lighting' in the classroom. The information is then saved in the aforementioned reports!

The app also has a feature called ' Draw It' that can be built into your presentations. This beams an interactive whiteboard to the students' devices. The teacher's device will display all of the students' 'drawings' and the teacher can then 'share' individual whiteboards with the entire class. Hitting share will cause the chosen 'drawing' to appear on every device. This enables teachers to share good work and model good progressions.

8. Open-ended tasks

Nearpod in the classroom allows for creative flexibility. The 'Open-Ended Questions' feature allows the teacher to pose a question or set up a scenario for the students to respond to. With this tool, you can facilitate creative writing tasks. As a result, the advantage of using something like Nearpod for this kind of activity is that the 'Open-Ended' answers are then automatically logged in the reports.

9. Setting homework

All of the above examples revolve around the idea of using Nearpod in a Live session, but students can also engage on their own time. You can provide a Student-Paced code and they can access the Nearpod lesson at home, or anywhere with an internet connection.

10. Sharing and using pre-made resources

One way of using Nearpod involves almost no work at all. Once you log on, tap on the ' Nearpod Library ' button on the left side and it will take you to a library of pre-made Nearpod lessons. You can find interactive presentations on almost anything for K-12 made by reliable subject experts. Near down your search by using the filters on the left side, typing into the search for, or browsing around our featured content. You can search by lesson type, standards, subjects, grade levels, and keywords.

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Achieve3000

The Achieve3000 program is designed to provide learning opportunities for all learners, on their ability level. The premise behind Achieve3000 Literacy's patented approach is simple: one of the most effective ways to strengthen reading, improve overall literacy, and prepare students for the rigors of college and career is to meet them one-on-one at their individual reading levels, while at the same time targeting grade-level state standards. Every lesson in Achieve3000 Literacy includes an article delivered at one of up to 12 Lexile levels in English and 8 in Spanish.  The program’s use of differentiation also helps teachers adapt student work based on reading proficiency. For ELL students, activities will adapt to their beginning English proficiency, and change based on their individual growth throughout the school year. Every student’s reading growth is monitored, ensuring that they’re getting the foundation they need to be successful.  The program allows teachers to provide incentives for individual achieve, and rewards students for their performance.

https://www.achieve3000.com/

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Otsimo

Otsimo is a special education app that is filled with a variety of assistive games for autistic children as well as tools for adults. The communication function, Otsimo AAC, offers a simple interface with image-word buttons as well as an accompanying voice pronunciation. You can use this app to combine and/or order images to create questions, phrases, and sentences, and they will appear at the top of the screen. Otsimo also offers a text-to-speech tool that allows the user to type words that the app will then voice. There is a multitude of games for children to learn and reinforce new vocabulary words, and parents can easily monitor the app and ensure it is safe. It is 100% ad-free, and usage is tracked and analyzed daily for parents to check their child’s progress regularly. The application is free to download for various types of phones.

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A resource that I have grown to love an utilize in the classroom is RAZ Kids and Learning A-Z. These programs are separate but can also come together. Raz kids allows students to read books at an appropriate reading level and pace. For younger students, the books can also be read aloud. At the end of each story students take a comprehension test. This allows me to check for my student's reading comprehension outside of guided reading. Students are able to level up in their reading level as they read and score high on their comprehension tests. There is a reward system that can be turned on or off by the teacher that allows students to earn stars (points) to costumize their reading character. A lot of students enjoy this incentive. Students are also able to track their progress to see how close they are to the next reading level.

RAZ Kids is a great tool for UDL. This program allows students to find books that meet their interests. Once students find books that meet their interest, students will ask to go on and read more stories (this has happened both years that I have used this program). By using the Level Up portion of the program students are able to self monitor their progress and start to challenge themselves to earn more stars, helping them become better readers. This program also allows students to listen to the stories, giving them an auditory approach to learning. It also allows students to use or gain background knowledge to gain further understanding of what they are reading. RAZ Kids allows students to become better readers, while building independence.

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Screencast-O-Matic is a free online screen capture tool. This tool records a designated area of your screen as well as audio and webcam input. You can use this tool to record narrated presentations or demonstrations and produce the recordings as videos for your courses.  It is compatible with Windows, Mac, IOS, Android and Chromebooks.   The site also has free tutorials on how to better use the application.

I have personally used the free version of this resource (15 minute recordings) to create step-by-step video for lessons where students may need to repeat or move at their own pace with instructions.   I am able to save my videos on both my hard drive and in google drive.

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IXL.COM

The resource I use and will continue to use in this upcoming unit is IXL. As a tool that can be used to target specific skills this lends itself to a differentiated plan for individual learners. In terms the the argumentative writing unit students can practice a range of skills that directly and indirectly connect to the core standard within the unit. Additionally, ELL students in our reading program have found great success in practicing language, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary skills in conjunction with their reading and writing skills. Since IXL is also something that is often practiced at home I often communicate progress with families and we discuss student performance using an IXL log. The skill practice is important, but equal emphasis is placed on student reflection of what skill they practice and how they will transfer skills to task in and outside the classroom.

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Nearpod – Girard

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Nearpod is a tool that helps teachers plan interactive lessons with real time student data. You see what the students are working on while they are working on it.

Nearpod is critical in virtual learning because it provides live data. While teaching virtually I often feel like I can not see/ hear/ or understand what the student is trying to say. We use the TEAMS platform in Ventnor, and I cannot see more then 1 student at a time. Using near pod allows me to see the work of each student in the lesson.

Engaging. The students love to participate, draw, and show what they know using near pod. I can provide instant feedback, praise, and help student see their mistakes quickly so they can fix them.  For math lessons we can use Nearpod to help with number formation. I can as the students start to form letters, and I can correct the ones who are not starting at the top. I can say things like “G I love how you made your 6, but it is backwards, can you try again, remember the magic C.”

Reaching all learners – Student’s responses show what the student know. I can see right way who needs more support, who needs adaptations, and who can move on.

https://nearpod.com/

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https://goalbookapp.com/toolkit/v/strategies

UDL is a framework with the goal of optimizing teaching and learning. When looking through resources I found Goalbook Toolkit. This is a website that has to be paid for (I signed up for a free trial), but it includes many resources.

This website has cultivated a library of resources for each facet of UDL. Each part of UDL is broken down into smaller parts and gives resources for each section. I found this to be a great tool to further understand UDL and to gather resources to use in my classroom.

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Pear Deck
PearDeck is a live presentation tool that allows students to sign into the presentation and participate in the presentation in a multitude of ways. It can be used as a formative assessment tool where teachers are able to create interactive slides for students to answer.
This allows the teacher to see each students screen and their answers so that they can assess the answers quickly. Responses can also be presented on the screen anonymously so that you can discuss students answers without anyone being embarrassed of their answers.
The students simply log into their account and type in the participation code that comes up on the screen. They are then logged into the presentation and can participate in "whole class mode" where the teachers changes the slide as she sees that each student is finished or "self paced". Self paced allows the teacher to turn the presentation over to the student and the students answer the questions at their own pace.
PearDeck has several options that allow teachers to create slides with presets or from scratch on their own. You can embed links, pictures, videos and music into your PearDecks. You can have slides with multiple choice questions, short answer responses that require typing, true false choices, slides that require students to draw their answer, you can have slides that require students to drag a marker over the correct answer, you can have them participate in votes.

There is a setting called PearDeck Vocabulary that allows students to collaborate in groups or pairs and create a virtual set of flashcards with definitions and drawings. The decks can then be shared with the entire class so that the class has a large set of flashcards for an upcoming exam.

In my own classroom this tool keeps my students engaged and on track with the lesson.

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I have been using GetEpic! throughout the pandemic and it is an amazing resource for my English Learners! I use it in various ways in the classroom from reading and writing to science. In reading, I am able to assign books on students' just right reading levels and even assign a quiz at the end to promote comprehension. It is also very engaging when students enjoy using it as a reward. There are books in various languages and some even have the english and spanish translations right below one another.
I use it in writing when students are exploring new topics. If a student wants to write about a certain topic, I can find an entire library of books and videos related to the topic. I can also narrow my search by age. This resource also tracks how much time students spend reading and a print out of what books they have read. This is a free resource for teachers, and if students want to read at home all they need is a parent email.

Classroom Utilization:
Reward
Early Finishers
Differentiated Tasks
Data Driven Instruction

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Math Talk
Math Talk is not an assistive technology that I have had a chance to integrate into my classroom yet. However, I learned of it last year when I was in a middle school setting with a student who had severe vision problems.
Math Talk is a speech recognition software program for math that can help students with a whole range of disabilities. Students can perform math problems by speaking into a microphone on their computer.
The program functions as an electronic math worksheet, allowing students to organize, align and work through problems on the screen. This is extremely helpful for students who have fine motor problems or students that have difficulties performing math problems on paper. (I would think this could even help a student who cannot write do to a broken arm or hand!)

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Board Maker (mid - tech)

Boardmaker by Tobii Dynavox is honestly my most used tool within my classroom. Boardmaker is a program catered to students with Autism and other disabilities where you can make PECS (picture exchange communication system).
Also within the website there are resources where you can make worksheets or interactive web-based activities. There is a community portion to the website, where other users can upload materials they make to share with other members to use.
I use Boardmaker on a daily basis, and my students respond very well to the activities.

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The second resource I have used before and will continue to use for this argumentative unit is Flocabulary. This resource is a multimedia based teaching tool for grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. There’s other areas of practice, but embed these into mini lessons and I also use them as independent or extension activities. I am currently also using this as a differentiate vocabulary practice tool for my ELL students. In the unit I will specifically use the lessons on claims and evidence.

Based on the UDL framework and the Versatility of the program this resource is also a culturally inclusive tool that draws on different perspective and authors. It often presents information in a manner that attempts to make real world connections. Additionally, the week in Rap is a component that promotes reflection on many topical issues that fosters student reflection of the world they live in. Alongside the interactive activities There are various settings  to meet students at their ability level.

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Newsela is an excellent resource for ELA and social studies lessons. There are plenty current events articles, literature, and science. They even have articles on social emotional learning. What is special about Newsela is that you are able to adjust the Lexile levels to make the articles readable to the student's levels. They also provide activities related to the article, available in both multiple choice and open ended questions. These articles align with Common Core standards. How they are a great source for ELL students is not only that you can adjust the Lexile levels, but there are articles available in Spanish. There is also a feature that allows ELL students to toggle between the English and Spanish versions of the text and allows the student to adjust the Lexile level in Spanish as well. Dictionary, in-line translators, and audio supports are also available. I love this resource to provide a relatable article to what they are learning about, that they can also understand because it can be adjusted to their reading levels.

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www.peardeck.com

Pear deck can be best described as a virtual set of white boards that provides anonymonity so students can communicate their response to questions individually without fear of peer discovery (as they build confidence students can share responses with classmates by adding their name to their response). The teacher has a dashboard that communicates only with the teacher individual student responses. A teacher can use it for direct question or my new favorite: as a google slide add-on. Also, there is an option to show responses of other students anonymously to "build fluency with guided help and support" which is listed CAST highlight under the UDL guideline Expression & Communication. I have used it several times after guided notes to practice newer concepts. It lets me see exactly where students are at in their thinking and listening. I can respond to them out loud with public praise or I can respond to them via a comment feature to give them feedback directly and privately. One of my favorite features is their premade slides that have opening of lesson, middle of lesson, or end of lesson questions that help draw students back to the objective or even ask them how they are feeling.

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Boom Cards (high tech)

Boom Cards are an interactive website tool that can be used on a computer, iPad. Boom Cards can be used for errorless correction teaching and can reinforce concepts often taught in Discrete Trials.
Boom Cards have a variety of subjects and skills taught, but I like to use it for teaching math. Since it is technology based but is still very user friendly and simple it keeps my students very engaged and they love to play it.
A Boom Cards account is free, but some activities do require "pay to play". Many great resources are free though!

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Boom Learning | Empowering teachers and students

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Boom Cards transform the classroom into an interactive, gamified learning experience with data to track progress and identify learning gaps.

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https://atnetwork.ttaconline.org/Content/docs/AT_Resource_Guide_booklet.pdf

This website offers a resource guide for assistive technology. One I chose for expression was the low tech augmentative communication picture board. I have seen these often in my old special services school district. Students have a book with velcro pictures to express what they want, what they need, ask, or answer questions in the classroom if they have trouble with verbal communication. This is extremely helpful for students who are non-verbal (such as students with autism) and understand and comprehend communication, but cannot orally vocalize it. This helps students communicate with their teachers and peers in a more efficient, easy way.

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https://www.youcubed.org/resource/data-talks/

This website is a great "why" answering tool and helps to develop our students' reasoning, pattern recognition, and academic language particularly with data talks. It can be applied to all ages and backgrounds. It can be meaningful across different cultures that blend together over common interests with topics such as social media, growth mindset, seasons, etc. You can meet your students where there are based on the selection of grade level 5-10 minute class discussions to help get your students thinking and asking the right questions. It can help a student with a learning disability relate with other students by completing a math task that is discussion based and relevant. It is not a performance but provides a universal design approach to bigger ideas within a lesson opener or closer.

This is a site that can be used at any level with any content if our goal is to help create better thinkers and contributing citizens. This is a great resource for content and is the closest you can get to "hands-on" images in the digital world. I want to use it as a lesson opener to a new unit, a lesson opener midway through a unit, and/or closing a unit making connections. This falls under recruiting interest with relevance, value, and authenticity from these data displays and discussions for UDL guidelines.

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https://www.brainpop.com/
Brainpop can be used in any K-8 classroom. You can choose from multiple subject area, including but not limited to math, reading, social studies, science, and social-emotional lessons. BrainPop  lists the standards that each lesson addresses. The program offers many resources for the teacher, such as lesson plans, quiz maker, tools to support ELL students and strategies to modify any of the Brainpop lessons. They also plans for a school to home connection.

Brainpop starts with a short, fun video on your chosen topic. To demonstrate understanding students can create. A student can choose to make a graphic organizer, a movie, they can draw about it or write about it. For further practice and assessment, students can play games, engage in challenges: the auto-graded activities emphasize the following eight skills: concept mapping, diagram labeling, matching, text highlighting, multiple response, sequencing, and Venn diagramming, or take a quiz. They offer an easy quiz, a hard quiz, or the teacher can make their own quiz.

I used Brainpop when I taught kindergarten. It was a useful tool to use during centers. wed the children to practice a skill in a fun way. While allowing me to see if the child has mastered the concept. In the pre-k classroom, I would sometimes use the videos and if possible the games.
This is a paid program that the school district would need to purchase.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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Christy Johnson

Resource 1

I have found that some of my students struggle in reading because their second language is English and/or they have a learning disability.  My school district science department bought a program for middle schoolers that is called IQWST.  This program has a read aloud feature that I had not previously used last year.  Now that I know that this feature exists, I have my students who need that support in place click the icon so that the readings can be read to them.  This can be done in school or at home since all students have a school issued laptop.

Resource 2

My second resource is Mote.  It is free at its basic level.  It allows you to respond to your virtual with your own voice in google classroom and email.  It adds a personal touch when you are speaking to children in regards to their assignments.  For instance, I can speak to students about corrections, positive feedback and constructive criticism.

Both of these low tech resources supports social justice and UDL because it evens the playing field for those whose first language is not English and others who have learning disabilities.  It universal because students who don’t necessarily need these two programs may just like or prefer to be read to or spoken to.
www.justmote.me

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The snap and read extension is available to students who need extra help with reading comprehension. These students can use this to aid in comprehension by listening to the reader and viewing the highlights of the passage. This program works on a variety of sites. They provide a simplifying tool to provide simpler words for more complicated words that the student may not understand to facilitate understanding of the passage. Additionally, they provide a translation feature to assist with ELL students. My district has enabled the snap read extension on Google Chrome web browser for all students to utilize, special education classified or not.

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Read aloud (TTS) accessible and inaccessible text (OCR), simplify difficult vocabulary, and translate English into other languages.

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To engage students in learning math, I use Prodigy.com. Prodigy is an excellent resource used in a video game format. Everything on the screen is read aloud to the students and students can work on their individual levels. This promotes inclusion and social justice because it gives concrete and personalized problems to the student. If a student is struggling on a given problem or topic, they will be given clues and/or a video to guide them. As students defeat their opponents and complete battles they can earn pets and accessories too! This is so much fun because it encourages students to maintain their health (by getting correct answers) to continue battling the opponent.

Classroom Utilization:
Early Finishers
Reward
Center Activity
Data Driven Instruction

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https://www.classcraft.com/blog/ways-to-incorporate-assistive-technology-into-the-classroom/

This website offers 13 ways to incorporate assistive technology into the classroom. One that stuck out to me was "seat cushions" as a low-tech form of AT. Often students, with and without disabilities, struggle to stay focused as they have energy and want to stand up and walk around the classroom. They get fidgety and cannot sit still, so these seat cushions are a way to offer mobility and movement while remaining seated to hopefully keep the students focused better. If they are in their seat cushions, they are not distracted by walking around and can get their energy out while in their seats. There are different types of seat modifications that can be used in the classroom depending on the specific needs of the child. For example, students who need to move around can sit on a big work-out ball instead of a chair. These accommodations can be easy, quick fixes to issues with focus in the classroom.

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Friedel - UDL/Assistive Technology Resource

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Friedel - UDL/Assistive Technology Resource

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Resource 1: Nearpod (high tech)

Nearpod is an app that allows teachers to do more than just present a topic with slides. You can add questions and polls throughout the slides to check for understanding as frequent as you'd like. The best part is the feedback you get in real time. The ability to immediately address a misunderstanding is vital in any classroom, not to mention a classroom with students with IEPs. Furthermore, the students must remained engaged or they will be noticed more quick than in a normal class discussion. I have already used Nearpod numerous times in my classroom to switch up the monotony of taking notes. There is a large selection of topics with questions already assembled that can be tweaked to fit the learners in the room. Additionally, you can create your own presentation to specifically tailor it to your students.

Resource 2: Remind (high tech)

The Remind app is perfect for communicating with high school students directly on their cellphones or computers to enhance capacity of monitoring for progress and facilitate managing information and resources. It works similarly to a simple texting app but allows for nonpersonal numbers to be used to communicate. Additionally, the parents are able to communicate with teachers more directly and simply which can streamline communication if a student needs help or is missing a lot of work. The reminders sent could be that a test is approaching, an assignment is due, or for tutoring availability. I specifically use this app for coaching my sport teams but I could see how using it in a classroom setting would also be beneficial if used in conjunction with our Google Classroom.