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Shake up is great for increasing student engagement in the class. 

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Shake up is great for increasing student engagement in the class. 

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Panopto is a great tool for visual and auditory learners. Its able to auto make closed captions which is great for visual learners who may not have heard what was said

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Panopto is a great tool for visual and auditory learners. Its able to auto make closed captions which is great for visual learners who may not have heard what was said

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This is great for those who enjoy different fonts and text types. Very useful for visual learners. It also does a great job accommodating those with different learning disabilities and can present information in a way that helps them.

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This is great for those who enjoy different fonts and text types. Very useful for visual learners. It also does a great job accommodating those with different learning disabilities and can present information in a way that helps them.

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Shake up Learning site is a great resource for teachers and students. This site is easy to use for all. Teachers can create phenomenal classroom materials and students can create documents for their school work or projects. The site provides students with an opportunity to create visuals easily. This site is a great resource for teachers and students.

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Chrome extensions can be utilized in the classroom by teachers and students. Extensions help teachers with their day to day duties. They can help teachers engage with all their students. Students with disabilities can utilize these extensions to help them with their classwork. They can help teachers grade their students' work. Some extensions can assign work so that teachers do not have to. Chrome extensions are a great resource for all students.

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Helperbird is a great tool! It supports students with disabilities through the use of text-to-speech and voice typing. It also helps others with dyslexia, ADHD, and it translates. The immersive reader changes the font to something that is readable, and highlights the word as it reads to you. This tool allows students that are struggling with their school work, to feel some relief.

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This is great for people old or having some kind of disability. It helps people changes the colors, texts or font or text to speech.

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This control Alt Achieve helps people with wide rang of needs or disability. For example, Text to speech.. imagine people who can't read. This feature works for them to read contact or letters or information on labels. Another one is Reading Comprehension is great for people who speak English as Second Language.. They usually don't comprehensive what they read.

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The real-time accommodations that eLearning Technologies presented through its sites demonstrates the importance of inclusivity in education. The frequency and normalizing of supports and their availability reaffirms that Universal Design Learning reduces barriers to instruction and learning.

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Shake Up Learning provides a large variety of resources, templates, and organizers along with explanations and other information to support and inform the teacher of ways to use the content.

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5 More Minute videos are relatively brief, easy to consume the content. What stood out to greatly is her language around treating the whole student body and how we need to shift away from the mindset of "fixing" a specific student/student body. "The biggest barrier is the actual infrastructure of the existing educational model."

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Wow! Helper Bird is all inclusive with so many different ways to help readers online. I like that it not only includes various ways, but also levels of support.

-Dyslexia Supports

-Keyboard Shortcuts

-Immersive Reader & Paragraph Styling

-Color Overlays & Reading Ruler

-30 voices & Translation Support

-Extract Text/OCR

-Highlighter & Page Summarizing

-SO MUCH MORE

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Readability Tools: The amount of extensions and tools that support struggling readers in so many different ways, really surprised and impressed me. I like the variety of ways that supports can be provided; from color coding, both minor and major font changes, minimizing ads or other online interruptions, layouts, line heights, shading bars, and many others. These tools support inclusivity for all students because they are accessible and not limited to a specific audience and cover a myriad of ways that a reader may not know they need support in.

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This extension is so helpful. One of my students showed me the other day actually, and she uses it as she has a reading disability. She uses this in a way that her peers can not tell she is using this tool to help her read the documents (she really likes the read it for me section)

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Technology is a tool. The fact that we are learning how to use this tool to best connect with our students is great. Whether we like it or not our students like technology, and most do not like learning however if we connect the two together it makes learning fun.

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I learned that accessibility for all people is what is most important. If done correctly, it will help all members of the classroom and not just the ones that "need" it. I really connected with the Closed caption portion as I may not "need it" however it makes my life so much easier to use. I would like to use this in the classroom as my students may need help even if they don't "need" it

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There are so many web sites for teachers resource to teach in the 21 Century. I especially like the Google slide.

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Shake up learning is great and my favorite thing about it is the fun and visually appealing templates that can help kids engage with what it up on the screen.

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Chrome extensions are awesome learning tools for students. There are so many useful extensions to help students adapt and overcome all of the things the struggle with in the virtual classroom.

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Helper Bird supports and inclusive environment in many ways. Some of the ways being text-to speech as well as many fonts that are easy to read for students that may have dyslexia.

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I find this very useful because even as an adult these type of tools can help one focus and complete the task. Students who need assistance can also use tools that allows them to have a good experience.

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I wasn't sure what to expect when I clicked this link to review. But I am so happy that it was about behavior management! Out of my three classes, my third one is out of control in the sense of noise level, talking over each other, etc. I also have a student that I'm positive has ADHD, but is undiagnosed/untreated, which takes more of my attention for my classroom management when greatly effects my ability to manage the rest of the classroom. Having the tools taught through this podcast are strategies that I can not wait to apply to my class!

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eLearning Technologies can be beneficial to anyone. Acknowledging that we all need help at some moment is the first step. How I utilize this in my class includes using relatable characters and actions to include communication with one or all of my students. One student in particular doesn't speak english but as a PE teacher I use demonstrations to my advantage so that he does as I do. This is also beneficial to all my other students who do speak english.

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This videos by Shelley Moore seem to be short and to the point. Which in my opinion is great because it help ensure inclusion . I feel these video can be effective because it helps meet children's needs. Sharing or seeing a different point of view can be eye opening.

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This was sooooo helpful! I first chose this to review due to the behavior management piece and text-speech/speech-text. But I found more resources that I want to use. Especially the font to help those with dyslexia. I do not know if any of my students have this, but I can still use it just incase. I have some students that don't do the written work, and these resources gives me some options to figure out what is going on that is keeping them from doing the written assignments. Thanks for sharing this!

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I chose to look into eLearning Technologies due to wanting additonal information on making my material accessible to everyone. I have some students that are second learners and some that don't seem to do the work. This may be because I'm presenting the information incorrectly for their learning styles or any unknown disabilities they may have. I downloaded the color correction app due to myself having issues with reading high contrast text. Especially black wording on white backgrounds. I tend to do better with blues or purples with black. I currently use google classroom to present material as well as paper handouts of the same material and presenting it on the smart board for those who don't have trouble reading. But the class and I will read out loud the material for those who learn better through auditory presentations. I want to be more inclusive to any other issues that my students may have that are hindering their learning which is being reflected in their quiz scores.

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Utilizing Chrome Extensions in the classroom is a useful way for students and teachers to learn and interact. Extensions provide tools for teachers so they can help their students that struggle, have disabilities, special needs, and even their “general population” students. Text to Speech and Speech to Text are some useful tools that teachers can implement in their classroom to cater to their student’s needs. Last week in class, we spoke about having subtitles on videos that play. This can be helpful for students that have hearing loss or even hearing students who like to read while listening. Extensions are making learning accessible for all students, no matter what level they are at or how they prefer to learn.

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eLearning technologies provides tools such an panopto which allows for captions in videos. This is very helpful with some students who may have hearing disability and provides for alternated ways to get he message of the video accross.

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Chrome extensions are great tools for students of all abilities. Tools just as audio support and text to speech can be very helpful for students with hearing disability.

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Shake Up Learners is a great tool teachers could use to enhance student learning. It provides templates, google sheets and visually appealing resources such as Canva. This will definitely be a tool I use as a future teacher.

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Shelly Moore's YouTube channel "Five Moore Minutes" provides many beneficial videos in which she talks about the importance of an inclusive learning environment that best supports all learning. She offers great resources and professional tips that educators could use to best serve all students.

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I learned that Helper Bird offers features that best support students with dyslexia and visual impairments. Helper Bird is a great tool by providing an accessible reading and writing experience to students who could greatly benefit from it.

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I learned that Chrome Extensions can be a great tool to accommodate all learners. Struggling and special need students support and special needs could benefit from technology by providing tools that could make learning accessible to all types of students. Text to Speech and Speech to Text are two powerful tools that could enhance and support student learning, making learning accessible for all.

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Shake Up Learning seems like a fun tool for teachers and one that I would like to visit and delve deeper into. I see Back To School activity ideas. I see information on the things Google Slides can do. I see Canva help, and lesson planning, and so much more. I am so excited to move into teaching in a time when there are so many resources, not only for students, but also for teachers as well.

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There were so many beneficial chrome extensions but the ones that stood out to me were those that limited distractions for students. Students do a lot more work on computers and students often have a hard time staying focused and on task when there are able to access other activities so easily. Extensions like Simple Blocker and uBlock, help with distracting ads or pop-ups while Move it seems like it would be great for students who need that extra reminder to take a break. Any student would benefit from these tools especially with the increased use of technology in classes today.

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I did not get into watching these videos in the way that I would like to so I saved this page to my bookmarks bar. I will revisit later when I have more time so I can learn as much as possible on ways that I can fuel inclusion in my classroom. I am interested in watching her videos on IEP's. I have been a special education assistant for 13 years. I am also the sister of someone who has special needs and was in special education throughout his school experience. So I have knowledge about IEP's but no actual experience with them and need to change that in case I am ever needed as the teacher to sit in on one of my students IEP's. I am also someone who has differing views on how somethings should be done within the classroom compared to most of the norms we know today.

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Shelly Moore's videos offered such insightful information in regards to inclusion and equity for all students. In her video Planning for ALL, she discusses how students with disabilities are often viewed with their specific disability as a problem that needs to be fixed. She suggests that we move away from a medical model and towards a social one in which we try to focus on the barriers that are limiting around them. Instructors should provide opportunities for all learners to receive the information presented, allow for them to express their understanding, and to engage students as stated in the UDL guidelines. In turn, these inclusive learning opportunities would benefit all students. It made me think back the the TED talk we watched last week when Michael Nesmith explained, when you achieve universal design it benefits all, that disability forces you to come up with new solutions. Designing and implementing plans that benefit all students regardless of their disability should be the goal!

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Helper Bird offers more features that can help students with certain limitations meet their needs and get a good education. This one in particular mentions Dyslexia which is hard to get diagnosed but a good many of our students struggle with. I know how it goes as well and it can make things extremely frustrating even when you enjoy something, like I did with reading. A lot of students would feel that frustration though and not try to get through it. Tools like Helper Bird make it more likely that they will be able to work through the frustration and find the joy in reading, and writing. I would like to see kids utilize tools like this and learn that they actually enjoy reading before they give up.

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I learned that Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning supports learning for all students. Through various options of learning and presenting information, each and every student has the ability to learn and participate in their learning. An example of digital platforms that could provide accessibility would be Blackboard Ally.

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Having worked in special education for the last 13 years, I have had exposure to many different tools that are used as accommodations for our students. Most are built into the Chromebooks our students use on a daily basis but it is nice having access to more that we can potentially give them in addition to the ones they already utilize.

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In this, we are learning about Blackboard Ally and how it makes learning accessible for all people. It is impressive and beneficial for the masses even those without any specific type of disabilities. It makes me so happy to realize that we are moving away from equality within the classroom and moving toward equity. It is nice to know that the general consensus is moving toward the fact that not all people learn the same and more people can succeed if we can give them the tools needed to do so.

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All students learn differently and Helper Birds accessibility features offer a variety of options for them to become successful. The components of UDL discusses how instructors should provide different ways for learners to comprehend information and to recruit interest such as limiting distractions and visual stimulants. Helper Bird offers distraction free reading options such as Reading Mode, as well as dyslexia friendly fonts and text-to-speech. It seems like an amazing tool for instructors that would benefit all students learning.

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Five Moore Minutes are videos that highlight inclusive research and approaches. The host, Dr. Shelly Moore, creates videos around 5 minutes with the goal to support the teaching and learning of all students. I personally watched the IEP(EAS) video. She used an analogy with seeds/plants to support the quote she used by Alexander DenHeijer. The quote read, “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” To conclude, she challenged the viewer to think about what would be on our “seed packet”? What are our strengths? What do we offer our community? What do you need to grow?

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Helperbird, with it’s unique features, supports the inclusion of users with disabilities. Features like dyslexia support, text-to-speech, and translations provide students options to cater to their style of learning. With Helperbird, students that struggle with their assignments, can feel a sense of relief with the unique ways this tool provides.

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I learned about shakeup learning. It helps to create the educational templates that includes lesson planning, interactive learning methods. It also provides resources which can be used to create google docs. These template can be used to support various classroom needs. These templates support various classroom needs, from planning and organization to student engagement. This is a really a nice tool and if used correctly, it can help teachers to save time.

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I have learned a lot by looking at her videos. It actually gave a different perception with which the teacher should help device IEPs in a classroom. In one video, where gave an analogy of bowling to explain how to create the effective learning environment for all the students in a classroom. I would try to incorporate these methods in my classroom as well.

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I learned about another chrome extension Helperbird. It focusses mainly to various methods that would help students with special needs with reading, writing and enhance overall browsing experience. It has various tools like text-to-speech, dyslexia-friendly fonts, and reading rulers. It also has another features such as distraction-free reading, custom text styles, background color adjustments, and voice typing. These features really help the kids with the special needs or learning disabilities to better engage the web content.

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Control Alt Achieve provides the different chrome extensions that can be used to help the students with special needs to navigate the various barriers. Each extensions have different use case. For example, we have chrome extensions that helps to read aloud of the highlighted texts. This will be really useful if the students are having difficulty to express what they need. There are other extensions as well which has variety of use cases like text-to-speech tools, speech recognition for writing, and tools for managing distractions.

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I learned about the various ways with which we can present educational resource that would enable all students to learn. The Grand Valley State University has provided multiple ways for students to acquire information, showcase the knowledge, and learn and gain knowledge. The key components include flexibility in presentation methods, options for expression and engagement, and tools to reduce learning barriers, especially for students with disabilities. It also discusses tools like Blackboard Ally for accessible content and Panopto for video captioning.

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Helperbird for Google Chrome provides accessibility features directly into your Google Chrome browser making web experiences more accessible. The reading features on Helperbird help make reading online easier and more enjoyable, such as having distraction-free reading tools that help support readers with their specific needs and preferences.

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Control Alt Achieve provides a list of Chrome web extensions that provide accessibility and accommodations to help all learners. One aspect in which Chrome web extensions helps learners are with behavior, focus, and organization tools. Simple Blocker helps with focus by blocking distracting websites and uBlock Origin is an ad blocker that removes distracting ads.

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Blackboard Ally is a resource that supports Universal Design for Learning principles. When content is uploaded into Blackboard, the accessibility of the file is shown, as well as tips to help improve its accessibility. Alternative file formats are also automatically created to help students access information in the way that works best for them, such as text to speech or offline reading.

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Helper Bird offers a variety of features designed to support the inclusion of all students. With tools like easy translation and an immersive reader, it provides essential resources for those who may face language barriers, ensuring everyone can engage with the material. These features foster an inclusive learning environment where every student has the opportunity to thrive and participate fully.

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Naghma Gul Shelly Moore emphasizes the importance of flexible assessments, which allows students to express their knowledge in ways that resonate with them. This approach not only promotes ownership of learning but also acknowledges the diverse strengths of each student.

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Naghma Gul Shelly Moore emphasizes the importance of flexible assessments, which allows students to express their knowledge in ways that resonate with them. This approach not only promotes ownership of learning but also acknowledges the diverse strengths of each student.

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Naghma Gul Chrome extensions designed to engage students who struggle with traditional learning methods. These tools not only enhance motivation but also provide options that cater to individual interests and learning styles.

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Naghma Gul Chrome extensions designed to engage students who struggle with traditional learning methods. These tools not only enhance motivation but also provide options that cater to individual interests and learning styles.

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Naghma GUl Helper Bird Chrome exemplifies the principle of representation by offering features like text-to-speech and adjustable text settings. These functionalities empower students with reading difficulties to interact with content more effectively, ensuring that all learners can access the same materials.

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Naghma GUl Helper Bird Chrome exemplifies the principle of representation by offering features like text-to-speech and adjustable text settings. These functionalities empower students with reading difficulties to interact with content more effectively, ensuring that all learners can access the same materials.

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Helpebird's writing tools offer everything needed for precise and easy writing. Text-to-Speech and Voice Typing, Spelling and Grammar Assistance, Word Prediction and Note-Taking to help improve writing skills.

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Shake Up Learning is an essential resource and planning tool that assists teachers in leveraging technology effectively. It provides templates for developing engaging learning opportunities, along with a wealth of tips for executing impactful lesson plans.

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In her video, Shelly Moore uses the analogy of a cupcake and a layered cake to demonstrate how to support students. The layered cake symbolizes holistic support for the entire community, highlighting that Universal Resource Support in schools can meet the varied needs of all students.

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Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs improve the role of technology in enhancing learning by offering accessibility and support for students and special needs. Providing numerous web extensions that help all learners.

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Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) prioritize inclusive education, ensuring all students, including those with disabilities

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Shake up is a great tool, because it allows teachers to connect with hands on material. It helps communicate with parents, and makes visuals more exciting to read then just a boring letter from the teacher. It makes the weakest computer literate person, have tools at their finger tips.

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Wow! These videos are great. It is often how teachers feel. I resonated with IEP video. Her focus on building a plan that builds on the students strengths not focus on their weakness. IEP often talk about what issues the student has, but should talk about what the student has, and where they can go from where they are.

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I connected with the color overlay and reading ruler feature. It helps stay focused, and allows students to follow along with other readers.

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Text to Speech is a great tool. It allows student whose thoughts are fast then their hands can type. Often my ADHD students need help organizing information. The text to speech gives them immediate ability to correct. Also people with physical disability can type without using their hands. Therefore opening up another venue of communication.

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I enjoyed learning about Panopto because it helps create captions. I love having words with my visuals, and videos. Therefore, allowing charts, and maps to give immediate feedback. Information is tangible for everyone.

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Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning focus on inclusive educational practice. It provide multiple options to acquire information are key to student success. For example, if we talk about provide option for perception, they offer to change the ability of text size, color, volume etc. They also provide the label as well transcript which is very useful for the student and the teacher side too.

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Shake up Learning is the rich platform for learning a students with many more interactives way. This is include featuring a variety of episodes for K12 teachers and educators, including tech tips, lesson ideas, practical advice, on-air coaching, student interviews, and interviews with inspiring educators.

The world of AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and the classroom is poised for transformation. This session delves into cutting-edge generative AI tools like Adobe Firefly, ManyWorlds, Google ImageFX, MusicFX, and Gamma, showcasing their potential to boost student creativity and streamline teaching.

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Today students more increasingly interactive with the technology and they are easily understanding through visualization. This is especially true if we talk about special needs students. "The 5 more minutes with Shelly Moore" are the best and fantastic platform where students get more interesting and educational content within a short period. only 5 minutes they can get useful and learning video that support the teaching and learning of our students. she talks about the very inclusive and engaging way that students help to grasp concepts easily. This type of videos is very useful for their mental growth and cognitive abilities.

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Shelly Moore worked as a resource specialist teacher. She has a YouTube channel named 5 Moore Minutes.

she advocates for inclusive education and seeks to reform Individualized Education Programs to better suit the needs of individual students.

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Helper bird is a browser extension we can use in our web pages.

Helper bird helps people with learning difficulties and it makes the web more accessible for everyone.

we can change fonts, color of the background in any webpage with helper bird.

It helps the people with color blindness to identify hyperlinks in a webpage text.

And there are lots of other features in helper bird browser extension.

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Shake Up Learning is a powerful guide and planning tool to help teachers make the most of technology.

It has lot of straightforward and easy-to-use templates for crafting engaging learning opportunities

There are lots of tips for implementation of powerful lesson plans

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Helper Bird is an essential tool for students who need additional supports when using docs or simply reading texts. Supports for dyslexic reading are amazing tools to have in the classroom. Additionally, color coding and highlighting hard to read text are useful to students who struggle to complete more extensive assignments.

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Control Alt is a great resource that allows additional tools for students who need extended supports to make learning accessible. By using extensions such as speech to text and read aloud text, students are able to access all learning platforms that that could have potentially hindered their learning path.

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In Provide Options for Comprehension, there are many ways to make learning more approachable and easy to understand. Breaking down material by sections allows learning to be more approachable. Another method to provide options for comprehension, modeling and role playing are also a great approach. Students who are visual learners will greatly benefits from these alternative methods of learning.

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Shake Up Learning; by Kasey Bell

Back to School with Canva" Refers to, using Canva to enhance teaching and learning. Canva Features for Education: 1. Templates for educators (lesson plans, worksheets, etc.).
2. Customizable graphics and illustrations.
3. Collaboration tools for student projects.
4. Integration with Google Drive, Docs, and Slides.
5. Access to a vast library of fonts, images, and icons. Back to School Ideas with Canva.
1. Create welcome posters and classroom decor.
2. Design interactive syllabi and course guides.
3. Develop visual lesson plans and presentations.
4. Make engaging worksheets and handouts.
5. Build a classroom website or newsletter

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By leveraging Readability tools, educators can create an inclusive and supportive learning environment, empowering students to succeed and grow as readers. The benefits: It improves comprehension, enhances engagement, increases accessibility, and better retention. the features of the readability tool provide a breakdown of complex sentences and vocabulary. adapts the text to individual students` reading abilities. The applications of Readability help teachers craft accessible educational materials. and enhance over all academic performance.

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Five Moore Minutes" by Shelly Moore is a video series addressing disability, education, and inclusion. Her discussion on "Evolution and Inclusion of Disability": Shelly highlights the shift from segregation to inclusion in education. Emphasis on self-advocacy, accessibility, and equal opportunities. Focus on diverse learning needs, accommodations, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Recognizing and addressing systemic barriers and stigmas. From "special education" to "inclusive education" and person-first language.

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By leveraging HelpBird`s Writing Feature, educators can: Foster effective writing habits, streamline grading and feedback, enhance student engagement and motivation, and promote academic success and growth. It is accessible via the Chrome browser extension. Students can benefit from HelpBird`s Writing Feature: It improves students' writing confidence and develops critical thinking and self-editing skills. For teachers: It automated grading and feedback, customizable writing assignments, real-time student progress tracking, and enhanced classroom productivity.

educators and research editors can detect plagiarism, grammar, spell-check, syntax, and sentence structure analysis.

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Learning technology fosters collaboration and communication among students, teachers, and peers in several ways,e.g., Google Docs, peer review, and feedback tools, or communicate via Zoom, Skype, email, and notification systems. Students benefit from this by increasing student engagement and participation and enhancing teamwork, personalized learning, and support. Educators can create inclusive, interactive, and engaging learning environments that promote effective collaboration and communication

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Shake Up Learning is a great website for a teacher to learn how to navigate different websites and tools such as Canva, utilizing AI, google classroom and more. Learning how to navigate these tools will allow students to experience new ways to digest content. I think visuals are especially important because it can keep students in engaged with the content instead of seeing the same text and blank background all the time. Learning how to use features on google can help one stay more organized and that will help students follow along better.

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In Shelley Moore’s “Removing the Barriers: Planning for ALL! “ they argue that the educational system must not look at students that are struggling as broken or in need of a typical medical approach. In order to shift away from this reaction and deficit focused system, we should shift to a social model that looks at the environment a student is in and predict the barriers the student may face ahead of time for them to be successful. If we do this the student will not need as many resources. I think this is a great idea because it helps teachers come up with different strategies to help their students comprehend subjects and feel supported. If the system allows teachers to prepare ahead of time, the student won’t be left out of the plan. I especially like the shift away from emphasizing so much on failure. It is ridiculous that we raise kids to be ashamed of failure and mistakes instead of being proud and encouraging them to learn and grow from setbacks.

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In “Provide Options for Comprehension”, this section of the article highlights the fact that not everyone comes in the classroom with the same set of knowledge. For example, a metaphor may make sense to those who were born in the United States but not to someone immigrating from another country. As a teacher, one should give background information and check for understanding. This section also talks about the importance of repetition and going back to key ideas. A teacher should also take different approaches when explaining a concept such as film or other visual and creative ways. Overall, being organized in one’s approach to learning a new concept can help with comprehension and breaking the subject down into smaller chunks.

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🗣️ Text to Speech

🎙️ Speech to Text

👓 Readability

📗 Reading Comprehension

🔊 Audio Support

☑️ Behavior, Focus, and Organization

🧭 Navigation

This seven categories helps students with different needs to learn a concept.

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Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning  

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Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning  

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This design is to meet everyone learning style. For example, some people are visual learner, auditory learner or kinetic learner. The three compound of learning is the What, How, and Why learning.

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Interactive Modules is a great and wonderful way to remove textbooks/labs from the everyday lesson plan. Having student watch and see what exactly is going on rather than reading about it. This helps my visual students tremendously.

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Chrome Extensions are a great idea to get students more engaged in their learning curriculum. Speech to text is a great idea to allow students that struggle with writing in general can help capture their minds to paper. I use it often at my location when kids are struggling with sentence structure and getting started with their ideas.

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Helper bird has great tools to keep in your belt to help students that struggle with learning disabilities and vocabulary definitions to expand writing comprehension.

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Utilizing Chrome Extensions is very useful for the student and the teacher. It is very common for teachers to share their computer screens to show students material. Some students may be unable to see the screen clearly, which is where the extensions become useful. Most of these extensions read the text on the screen to students and provide tools for those who need it when reading online. These tools can be utilized on a teacher's computer or a student's.

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The Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning lists out multiple options for students to discover multiple ways to learn, expressing themselves and their knowledge, and increasing student engagement. It allows instructors to use different options or strategies to learn more about their students as an individual and be able to inclusive to all.

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Helperbird supports the inclusion of all students by providing resources for reading and writing for the different styles of individuals and allows them to adjust what they're reading or writing to their personal preference. It also accommodates those with accessibilities through being able to adjust fonts, text size, and settings to reduce distractions.

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There are so many Chrome extensions that are available to educators to install to assist the students we serve. One extension that I read about and then installed immediately is an extension called Mote. This allows anyone to record their voice and add it as a sound clip MP3 file into many platforms, but specifically in a few Google apps (Google Docs and Slides to name a few) that could be really useful for students when producing work. This is a great option to have at the ready to apply a few of the components of UDL and include a way for students to record their voice to produce something that meets a specific learning objective. I highly recommend checking out Mote and install it to your Chrome browser to start dreaming up how to use this with your (future) students.

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Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs

Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students when learning, as it provides accessibility and accommodations to support everyone. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners.

In this blog post we will take a look at dozens of Chrome web extensions and apps and other tools and features that can assist students in seven main categories:

🗣️ Text to Speech

☑️ Behavior, Focus, and Organization

Some of the tools fit into more than one topic, but each is only listed once. Certainly this list does not cover all of the useful web extensions and tools available for learners, but it is a great place to begin.

In addition to the list of extensions and tools, I have also linked in the video from a webinar I did on " Google Tools to Support All Learners" along with my ever-growing resource document and slideshow from the session.

▶️ Training Video (54 minutes)

🗣️ Text to Speech Tools

Read&Write for Google Chrome
Chrome web extension link
The "Swiss Army Knife" of extensions with tools including word prediction, dictionary, picture dictionary, text to speech, screenshot reader, speech maker, screen mask, translator, highlighters, voice note, and more. Works on webpages, PDFs, Google Docs, and Google Slides.
Note: There is a paid version with all the tools and a free version with a subset of the tools. Educators can get the paid version for a year at no cost by filling out the form at: https://www.texthelp.com/products/free-for-teachers/

The Immersive Reader extension can read aloud any text you have selected, as well as providing additional reading supports. These include Text Preferences to change the text size, increase or decrease spacing, change fonts, and colors, Grammar Options to break words into syllables, as well as color code and label the parts of speech, and Reading Preferences to turn on or off the picture dictionary option, and to select the language for translation.

Read Aloud
Chrome web extension link
This text-to-speech extension will read either the entire page or just the text that you have selected. In addition to the normal options to adjust the speed, pitch, and volume of the voice, the best feature is the wide collection of high-quality voices to choose from.

Announcify
Chrome web extension link
This is another text to speech tool that not only reads a webpage, but also removes distracting elements from the site. The only drawback is the inability to select specific text to read, as the entire page is read aloud.

ChromeOS Select-to-Speak

If you have a Chromebook, there is a built in tool for text-to-speak called " Select-to-speak". Nothing needs to be installed. It just needs to be turned on.

First click in the bottom right corner of your Chromebook screen to open the system menu.

Here click on the "Accessibility" icon.

Note: If you do not see the "Accessibility" icon you can click on the gear to go into the advanced settings to turn it on.

Now from the "Accessibility" menu click on the "Select-to-speak" option.

This will put a little speaker icon down in the bottom right corner.

Anytime you need to have something read aloud, just click the icon and drag your mouse to select the text you want to hear.

Using the toolbar you can also pause, change speeds, and jump forwards and backwards through the text.

Docs Voice Typing is not an extension that needs to be installed, but instead is actually built right into Google Docs and Google Slides. With voice typing you can simply speak and anything you say will automatically be typed for you.

When we are in a Google Doc we click the "Tools" menu and then choose "Voice Typing" from the drop down menu.

This will open up a floating microphone.

To start dictating to the document, we simply click the microphone icon.

Now anything you say will automatically be typed into the document.

In addition to words, you are also able to say punctuation. For a full list of all the commands you can speak, click the question mark icon below the microphone, and this will open up a help menu with all of the details.

When done, we just click the microphone again to stop the speech to text.

VoiceIn Voice Typing
Chrome web extension link
This speech-to-text extension allows the user to dictate text for any text box or text entry portion of a web page. You can either click the extension or right-click and choose "Start recording" to use it. Be sure to click the extension again to turn off the speech-to-text function when done.

Chromebook Dictation Tool

First click in the bottom right corner of your Chromebook screen to open the system menu.

Here click on the "Accessibility" icon.

Note: If you do not see the "Accessibility" icon you can click on the gear to go into the advanced settings to turn it on.

Now from the "Accessibility" menu click on the "Dictation" option to enable speech to text.

This will put a little microphone icon down in the bottom right corner.

Anytime you need to do speech to text just click on the "Dictation" icon and start speaking.

Anything you say will automatically be typed into the computer wherever you are.

This works in websites, documents, forms, and more.

If you are using a Chromebook there is actually a speech to text tool built right in. Nothing needs to be installed. It just needs to be turned on.

Present your slideshow as normal.

Click the "3-dots" button on the navigation bar.

Choose "Captions preference" and then toggle on the captions.

As you speak your words will be live captioned and will display on the screen.

Using the same menu you can adjust the size and position of the captions.

Live captions are available in several Google products including Slides and Meet. In Google Slides you can display live captions as follows:

👓 Readability Tools

Lexend fonts are intended to reduce visual stress and so improve reading performance. Initially they were designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, but Bonnie Shaver-Troup, creator of the Lexend project, soon found out that these fonts are also great for everyone else.

Mercury Reader
Chrome web extension link
Make any website easier to read by removing ads, comments, and all other distractions, so just the core content remains. Users can also adjust the font size and color scheme of the new text.

Chrome web extension link
Override all fonts on a webpage with the OpenDyslexic font, making the text more easily readable.

Dyslexia Friendly
Chrome web extension link
This extension replaces the fonts on a web page with either OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans, and provides a horizontal shaded bar to help the user stay on the correct line when reading. The only drawback is there is no easy way to toggle it on and off, so you will want to use an extension management tool to let you turn it off when not in use.

WaspLine Reader
Chrome web extension link
This tool creates a more readable version of a web page by applying color gradients that make it easier for the eyes to chain together the ending of a line with the beginning of the next.

Color Overlay is a filter which puts a tint on your browser viewport to make text more readable. This could be used by people suffering by visual distortions reading the content on the normal background (Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome). The colored overlay can improve reading abilities of such users by reducing or eliminate perceptual processing errors.

ATbar
Chrome web extension link
Similar to the Color Overlay extension, this toolbar can generate color overlays for webpages, but also has features for a dictionary, text to speech, word prediction, and more.

MagicScroll Web Reader
Chrome web extension link
Turn web pages into a flippable e-book with easy clickable or keyboard control, as well as control over font size and page color as well.

Chrome web extension link
This screen overlay tool darkens out the page except for a horizontal band you can move up and down as you read, helping the student focus.

High Contrast
Chrome web extension link
This tool can make webpages easier to read by changing the colors to increase contrast, invert the colors, or switch to gray-scale.

Color Enhancer
Chrome web extension link
For people who are partially color-blind, this tool can help adjust and improve webpage colors.

Additional ChromeOS Features

📗 Reading Comprehension Tools

Google Dictionary
Chrome web extension link
Don't get stuck on an unknown word. Double-click on any word to get a pop-up definition, as well as spoken pronunciation for many words.

SMMRY
Chrome bookmark link
While not technically an extension, this tool functions very much like one and is launched from your Chrome bookmarks bar. Summarize any online article with a simple click of the SMMRY bookmark link. This will generate a simplified version with fewer sentences (7 by default) and just the most important information. Settings can be adjusted for longer or shorter summaries, as well as emphasis on certain desired words..

The QuillBot Chrome extension will summarize text as a new paragraph or by key sentences, in multiple levels of length. Sign in with your Google account for free to be able to summarize texts up to 5,000 characters at a time.

Auto Highlight
Chrome web extension link
This extension takes a different approach to summarizing. Instead of removing the non-essential portions of the text, it highlights what is most important. This allows the reader to still look at the rest of the article if needed. Three levels of highlighting can be chosen.

Behaviour, Focus, and Organization Tools

Simple Blocker
Chrome web extension link
This tool helps students to stay focused on their work by blocking distracting websites. The user can choose the sites to block, how long to block them, and optional password protection.

uBlock Origin
Chrome web extension link
A simple but powerful ad-blocking extension to help remove distracting ads from websites, making pages less cluttered and easier to read.

Move It
Chrome web extension link
For students who need a break, this extension can be set to periodically have them stop working and do something physical for a moment.

Google Keep
Chrome web extension link
Keep allows users to save and retrieve any information they come across including text, links, pictures, speech, handwriting, doodles, and more. The tool works as an extension, web site, Android app, and iOS app, and integrates into Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings.

Ambient audio sites and tools can let students create their own custom mix of background sounds to help them concentrate and drown out potentially distracting noises.

Pear Deck lets you add interactive elements to your slides including multiple choice, text entry, numeric entry, drawing, and draggable activities.

You can insert pre-made template slides provided in the Add-on.

Or you can add interactive elements to slides you have already created.

When you present the slideshow through the Pear Deck Add-on, students join the presentation and can interact with it.

You can show students responses by clicking the "Show Responses" button in the bottom right corner of the screen. Responses can be shown individually or aggregated together to look for patterns.

Pear Deck Webinar (1 hour) - Blog post

Pear Deck Add-on for Slides

This extension can make it easier for students to locate their mouse cursor by allowing them to customize the size and look of the mouse cursor.

Click-free Browsing
Chrome web extension link
For users who have a difficulty clicking a mouse, this extension adds on-screen navigation buttons the user can simply hover over to use.

Vimium
Chrome web extension link
Provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control for someone with difficulty using a mouse.

CrxMouse
Chrome web extension link
Use mouse gestures to navigate including forward, backward, scrolling, refreshing, switching tabs, and more. The user can even program their own custom mouse gestures to open programs and perform other tasks.

Caret Browsing
Chrome web extension link
This extension gives you a movable cursor in any web page, allowing you to move through the text with your arrows keys and select text with the keyboard.

Additional ChromeOS Features

Tools to support learners are constantly being created and improved, so be sure to check back often as I continue to update my resource documents " Google Tools to Support all Learners". And be sure to let me know of any tools you would recommend for the list. I look forward to learning from you!

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