UDL Resource Notebook by Alexandra Douglas https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny en-us 2019-04-09 20:52:33 UTC 2019-04-12 02:30:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Bookshare achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350140825 Description:
Bookshare makes reading easier than ever! People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

Use(s):
Listen to books, follow along with karaoke-style highlighting, read in braille or large font, and customize your reading experience with ebooks in formats that work for each student.

UDL Guidelines :
Representation
-CHECKPOINT 1.1, Offer ways of customizing the display of information:
Display information in a flexible format so that the following perceptual features can be varied:
  • The size of text, images, graphs, tables, or other visual content
  • The contrast between background and text or image
  • The color used for information or emphasis
  • The volume or rate of speech or sound
  • The speed or timing of video, animation, sound, simulations, etc.
  • The layout of visual or other elements
  • The font used for print materials

- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Action & Expression

 - CHECKPOINT 5.3, Build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance:
  • Provide differentiated feedback (e.g., feedback that is accessible because it can be customized to individual learners).

Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition.



]]> 2019-04-09 21:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350140825 Rewordify achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350143393 Description
Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can:

  • Intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension
  • Effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary

Use(s):
Rewordify.com helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity.

UDL Guidelines:
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition.
]]> 2019-04-09 21:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350143393 IXL Math achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350160269 Description:
On IXL, math is more than just numbers. With unlimited questions, engaging item types, and real-world scenarios, IXL helps learners experience math at its most mesmerizing!

Use(s):
Students can ork in personalized study plans that highlight strengths and weakness, get help from interactive study aids, stepped-out examples, video tutors, and animations , receive immediate feedback and reference pages from the textbook for additional support (where available).

UDL Guidelines:
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition
]]> 2019-04-09 23:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350160269 Vocabulary.com achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350532480 Description:
Vocabulary.com is a platform for lifelong learning, growing with you every step of the way. As you improve, the words that you learn will become more and more advanced. And, with our easy-to-use progress-monitoring tools, you can always look back to see how far you’ve come. Ditch the flash cards and stop memorizing definitions. Vocabulary.com teaches you words by systematically exposing you to a wide array of question types and activities that will help you understand all the meanings and nuances of every word you’re learning.

Use(s):
Vocabulary.com combines the world's smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning game that will have you mastering new words in no time.

UDL Guidelines:
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition.


]]> 2019-04-10 19:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350532480 BrainPOP achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350558862 Description:
BrainPOP is a great site for interactive science learning and its very well designed to boot. It is a very active site for young students with a myriad of animations, movies, and short interactive quizzes.

It covers topics like cellular life and genetics, ecology and behavior, forces of nature, our fragile environment, scientific inquiry, and paleontology and anthropology. So young aspiring scientist is bound to find something that will spark their interest.

It also has some interactive coding lessons which are always fantastic ways to learn something they might not normally be exposed to. The site will have them hacking government websites in no time - only joking of course.

Use(s):
BrainPOP is an essential engagement tool that allows both students and teachers to be involved in the learning process via interactive videos and lessons the further foster student development.

UDL Guidelines: 
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition
]]> 2019-04-10 21:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350558862 Science for Kids achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350561460 Description:
Science Kids is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world.
Learn more about the amazing world of science by enjoying our fun science experiments, cool facts, online games, free activities, ideas, lesson plans, photos, quizzes, videos & science fair projects.

Use(s): 
Science for Kids allows students to be able to participate in interactive games and lesson to further their knowledge in Science and other topics such as math and social studies. 

UDL Guidelines: 
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition
]]> 2019-04-10 21:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350561460 MathXL for School achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350965108 Description:
MathXL® for School is the essential online addition to any core curriculum that provides personalized instruction and practice for middle and high school students of all levels. Tied directly to more than 300 Pearson mathematics and statistics texts, teachers can easily create, edit, and assign homework and tests.

Use(s):
MathXL sets out t help students of numerous grades delve deeper into mathematics and to increase their skills via tiered and interactive lessons, crucial feedback and math games.

UDL Guidelines:
Representation
- CHECKPOINT 2.1, Clarify vocabulary and symbols: 
  • Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to the learners’ experience and prior knowledge
  • Highlight how complex terms, expressions, or equations are composed of simpler words or symbols
  • Embed support for vocabulary and symbols within the text (e.g., hyperlinks or footnotes to definitions, explanations, illustrations, previous coverage, translations)
  • Embed support for unfamiliar references within the text (e.g., domain specific notation, lesser known properties and theorems, idioms, academic language, figurative language, mathematical language, jargon, archaic language, colloquialism, and dialect)

- CHECKPOINT 2.5, Illustrate through multiple media: 
  • Present key concepts in one form of symbolic representation (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with an alternative form (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, physical or virtual manipulative)
  • Make explicit links between information provided in texts and any accompanying representation of that information in illustrations, equations, charts, or diagrams.


Engagement
- CHECKPOINT 8.2, Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge: 
  • Differentiate the degree of difficulty or complexity within which core activities can be completed
  • Provide alternatives in the permissible tools and scaffolds
  • Vary the degrees of freedom for acceptable performance
  • Emphasize process, effort, improvement in meeting standards as alternatives to external evaluation and competition.


]]> 2019-04-11 20:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350965108 Webspiration Classroom achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350968659 Description:
Improve your writing and thinking skills with Webspiration Classroom™ service. Jumpstart your brainstorming, organize your work, and create well-written papers using visual thinking and outlining strategies. Collaborate with your peers, communicate with teachers or work independently, anytime and anywhere you have Internet access.

Use(s):
Designed for teachers and students in grades 5-12, Webspiration Classroom™ provides a safe and reliable online learning environment that helps students improve their subject lessons, writing and critical  thinking skills via structured lesson templates, various rubric and study guide creators as well as thinking/mind maps.

UDL Guidelines:
Representation

- CHECKPOINT 1.1, Offer ways of customizing the display of information: Display information in a flexible format so that the following perceptual features can be varied:
  • The size of text, images, graphs, tables, or other visual content
  • The contrast between background and text or image
  • The color used for information or emphasis
  • The volume or rate of speech or sound
  • The speed or timing of video, animation, sound, simulations, etc.
  • The layout of visual or other elements
  • The font used for print materials

- CHECKPOINT 3.4, Maximize transfer and generalization: 
  • Provide checklists, organizers, sticky notes, electronic reminders
  • Provide templates, graphic organizers, concept maps to support note-taking
  • Provide scaffolds that connect new information to prior knowledge (e.g., word webs, half-full concept maps)


Action & Expression

- CHECKPOINT 5.1, Use multiple media for communication: 
  • Compose in multiple media such as text, speech, drawing, illustration, comics, storyboards, design, film, music, dance/movement, visual art, sculpture, or video
  • Use social media and interactive web tools (e.g., discussion forums, chats, web design, annotation tools, storyboards, comic strips, animation presentations)

- CHECKPOINT 5.2, Use multiple tools for construction and composition: 
  • Use story webs, outlining tools, or concept mapping tools

- CHECKPOINT 6.3, Facilitate managing information and resources: 
  • Provide graphic organizers and templates for data collection and organizing information
  • Embed prompts for categorizing and systematizing
  • Provide checklists and guides for note-taking



]]> 2019-04-11 20:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350968659 Remember the Milk achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350969722 Description:
Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand.

Use(s):
Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. The application makes it so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand.

UDL Guidelines: 
Representation
-CHECKPOINT 1.1, Offer ways of customizing the display of information: Display information in a flexible format so that the following perceptual features can be varied:
  • The size of text, images, graphs, tables, or other visual content
  • The contrast between background and text or image
  • The color used for information or emphasis
  • The volume or rate of speech or sound
  • The speed or timing of video, animation, sound, simulations, etc.
  • The layout of visual or other elements
  • The font used for print materials

Action & Expression
- CHECKPOINT 5.2, Use multiple tools for construction and composition: 
  • Provide text-to-speech software (voice recognition), human dictation, recording
  • Use web applications (e.g., wikis, animation, presentation)

]]> 2019-04-11 20:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350969722 ClassDojo achaysbe https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350974645 Description:
Class Dojo is an online behavior management system intended to foster positive student behaviors and classroom culture. Students earn 'Dojo Points' based on their classroom conduct. Teachers use Class Dojo to keep parents up to date on student progress and classroom happenings.

Use(s):
ClassDojo's mission is to reinvent classrooms by bringing teachers, students and parents closer together. Teachers use ClassDojo as a communication platform to encourage students, and get parents engaged too. Classrooms become positive places - which means there's no more 'classroom management'.

UDL Guidelines:
Action and Expression
 
- CHECKPOINT 5.1, Use multiple media for communication by communicating with students and parents about the student's progress. 

- CHECKPOINT 5.3, Build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance:
  • Provide differentiated feedback (e.g., feedback that is accessible because it can be customized to individual learners) by virtual communication to Parents and students.

Engagement


- CHECKPOINT 9.1, Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation by allowing students to see their behavior progress and continue to work towards their goals. 

- CHECKPOINT 9.3, Develop self-assessment and reflection:
  • Use activities that include a means by which learners get feedback and have access to alternative scaffolds (e.g., charts, templates, feedback displays) that support understanding progress in a manner that is understandable and timely.
]]> 2019-04-11 21:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/achaysbe/af36yaqy0iny/wish/350974645