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Edmodo is an easy way to upload content to share with students all at once. Students can also converse with each other and the teacher through this app and/or website.

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Edmodo : Classroom Tools on the App Store

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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Edmodo : Classroom Tools. Download Edmodo : Classroom Tools and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Free Rice 2.0 is a classic vocabulary "game" for students. After every correct answer the game will donate free rice to World Food Program.

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Freerice.com | Not Your Average Online Trivia Game

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Play online, learn online and feed the hungry | Freerice.com

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For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme.

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Lessoncast is a website where experienced teachers can upload and provide lesson plans and powerpoints. Students can also use this website as a way to build and save an online portfolio.

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Capture & share examples of effective teaching & learning

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Student learning digital portfolios & Teacher learning PD artifacts

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If students enjoy making "comic strips" Make Beliefs Comix is a website where you can create your own characters, backgrounds, and include dialogue.

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Create Your Own Comic Strips Online with MakeBeliefsComix

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We Offer Support and Resources.

From Richard Byrne, editor of Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week -- ''Creating Comics for Comfort'' -- Living in Maine and father of two school-age children, Richard wrote the following item for teachers and students dealing with the terrible tragedy of the recent mass shootings in that state. He thought this an appropriate time to review and use Social and Emotional Learning resources, such as those offered by MakeBeliefsComix.com.

Make Beliefs Comix offers a library of fantastic, free ebooks for SEL. The library hosted by Make Beliefs Comix contains fillable PDFs that you can download for free. The latest addition to that library is 50+ Ways to Talk to Yourself and Find Healing. And for something a bit lighter, take a look at Pet Words: Conversations With Your Animal Friends.

"Here's a video overview of the Make Beliefs Comix ebooks and here's one about how to create comic strips on the Make Beliefs Comix website."

For many LGBTQ+ kids, especially when they're figuring things out, finding accepting spaces online can sometimes feel safer. Seek out creative opportunities and modes of self-expression, with this section in Make Beliefs Comix.

READ ABOUT US IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!

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MakeBeliefsComix encourages students to create their own visual pandemic diary.

ARTICLE #2: (click on the link below)
One easy way to start playing with ideas is through the free, online tool at MakeBeliefsComix.com.

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Create Comics Online, it's Fun & Free at MakeBeliefsComix!

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Create comics online at MakeBeliefsComix. A fun way educators & parents can empower students to express ideas and stories in comix!

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Teaching students about copyright is extremely important. The link provided will tests students knowledge about how much they really do know about Copyright policies.

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Using Adobe Spark, teachers can create newsletters however frequently they would like to keep students and parents informed.

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Free Newsletter Maker: Create Custom Newsletters | Adobe Spark

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Getting your Apple Teacher Certification is a great way to keep up with and learn about the new programs that are on Apple products. Apps like Pages, iMovie, and Garageband are all included in the certification process. I did not know that some of these apps entailed so many details.

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Learning Center - Apple Education Community

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Visit the Apple Education Community to discover great learning resources and learn new skills to become an Apple Teacher.

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Edublogs is a great way for teachers to post and keep up with a "web page" for their classroom. You can easily post links and attachments so that parents can also view to see their children’s progress.

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress

Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning.

Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Edublogs is more than just WordPress Edublogs enhances WordPress with education-specific features, themes, and plugins. We offer tailored tools for classroom management, student privacy, and collaborative learning. Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of educators and students, with dedicated support and an active educational community.

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Teachers can access ClassDoJo through the app store or by going on the web and searching. Here you can create "monsters" for each student and keep track of behavior.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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TeacherKit is a classroom management school found in the app store. Teachers can use this app to keep track of grades and also attendance.

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‎Over a million educators worldwide trust TeacherKit with managing their time and activities. TeacherKit helps you organize classes and students easily. Create a seating chart, record attendance, log behavior, and track grades all with few taps. TeacherKit lifts the headache of routine administration...

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The orange boxes represent resources, websites, and apps that I plan to use when I become a teacher.

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Bookbuilder is a great website for students to create e-books showing their creativity.

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Message to our Loyal Users of CAST UDL Book Builder, UDL Exchange, and UDL Studio

On January 15, 2024, we will retire this website, along with a few others. We know it has many devoted followers who will be sad to see it go. We're sad, too.

Making these creative tools and offering them free-of-charge to educators, parents, and learners at no charge the past decade-plus has been our joy, we also know that usage is way down, funding for the tools ran out years ago, and their underlying technologies are no longer contemporary.

To ensure a smooth transition, we're providing a three-month sunset period so you have sufficient time to download any stored materials you may have on the sites and to find alternative tools. After January 15, we will also close all user accounts.

Thank you again for your understanding and be sure to visit www.cast.org to learn more about the exciting innovations we are pursuing today and tomorrow! Questions: questions@cast.org

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Message to our Loyal Users of CAST UDL Book Builder, UDL Exchange, and UDL Studio On January 15, 2024, we will retire this website, along with a few others. We know it has many devoted followers who will be sad to see it go. We're sad, too.

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Using a QR code generator like the one I provided is a quick way to get students all to the same web link at the same time with just the snap of a camera. I used this one for a way to do Thanksgiving activities for students.

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Haiku Deck is a website that teachers can use to make slideshows with different effects as a way to keep students intrigued and engaged in the lesson being presented.

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Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that's simple, beautiful and fun.

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I used the Voki website to create a Mrs. Clause avatar to give students their daily announcements.

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This is an example of the Thinglink I created. I decided to do something simple so I created the sun and added how hot the sun is from each planet

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How hot is the sun? 5,778 K, Mercury can be seen from Ear... by Kaci Byford

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TOUCH this image to discover its story. Image tagging powered by ThingLink

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The red boxes represent the creative content that can be used in classrooms for putting together lessons and also for showing use of UDL.

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A world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees.

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Nearpod is a website where I will be creating lessons to share with the class. Through this website I can add quizes, polls, and even videos that will pop up when going through the assignment.

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Friendship "lesson" with read along book at the end

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I made this short video clip through Snapchat as a new way to engage students when looking at their daily bell ringer.

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iMovie is a great app that students can use to create personal videos to share with the class.

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Assistive Technology is anything that may level the "playing field" for a student who may need some extra help.

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UDL stands for Universal Design For Learning.

"Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all students an equal opportunity to succeed."

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At a glance

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) gives all students an equal opportunity to succeed.

This approach to teaching and learning offers flexibility in the ways students access material and show what they know.

UDL also looks for different ways to keep students motivated.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching and learning that gives all students equal opportunity to succeed.

To understand what UDL is, it helps to understand what it's not. The word universal may throw you off. It may sound like UDL is about finding one way to teach all students. But UDL actually takes the opposite approach.

The goal of UDL is to use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning. It's about building in flexibility that can be adjusted for every person's strengths and needs. That's why UDL benefits all learners.

This approach to teaching or to workplace training doesn't specifically target people who learn and think differently. But it can be especially helpful for kids with these challenges - including those who have not been formally diagnosed. It can also be very helpful for English language learners.

Watch this video to see what UDL looks like in a fifth-grade classroom.

Dive deeper

Bringing universal design to the classroom

How UDL helps students who learn and think differently

About the author

About the author

Amanda Morin is the author of "The Everything Parent's Guide to Special Education" and the former director of thought leadership at Understood. As an expert and writer, she helped build Understood from its earliest days.

Reviewed by

Reviewed by

Ace Parsi, MPP served as the personalized learning partnership manager at NCLD.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a teaching approach to help all learners be successful. Read about UDL principals and the benefits of UDL for students.

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I also enjoy using Powtoon when creating lessons. While I make my own lessons, I can also assign students lessons to create their own slide show lessons over.

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What do you know about Japan?PopulationJapan has a population of 126.8 MILLION!!!This large population is rapidly growing and will need to reproduce to keep their numbers so largeReligonJapan has 2 major religons..."Shinto"&"Buddhism"Are Japan & the US friends?Absolutely!Since the late 20th century, the US and Japan have had active political, military, & economic relationships.GeographyJapan is made up of 6,852 islands!That's A LOT of islands!Only 18% of this land is considered "habitable"Vocabulary Words1.

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My name is Kaci Byford and I am a student at Southeast Missouri State University. I am currently majoring in Special Education because I have always had such a big heart for individuals with exceptionalities. I look foward to having my own classroom and students, hopefully some day soon.

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VR field-trips are great to use when wanting to bring your lessons to life. Students can find and watch videos through different apps and websites using their View Masters of Google Cardboard googles.