https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n Notebook of UDL Resources en-us 2022-04-18 17:28:52 UTC 2026-01-24 01:55:04 UTC hello@padlet.com jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147298798 https://www.texthelp.com/products/read-and-write-education/

Read&Write is an application available for free download that offers many helpful resources to students. It has speech to text, as well as text to speech options, a screen and PDF reader, word prediction, vocabulary and personal dictionaries, color highlighting, and more. 

Read&Write offers so many ways to customize the display of information (UDL Guideline 1.1). It allows users to create vocabulary and personal dictionaries to clarify the vocabulary and symbols in a text (UDL Guideline 2.1).It allows the user to highlight patterns, critical features big ideas and relationships (UDL Guideline 3.2). It optimizes tools and assistive technology (UDL Guideline 4.2) through the text to speech and speech to text options as well as the predictive technology.

This can help learners how struggle with reading, writing, organizing thoughts, language processing and more. This can help learners break down information, highlight and organize key points, and start and stop text to speech at a pace that is helpful to them. It is highly customizable and offers font and color changes as well as other settings like the voice output, word spacing, and speed. This could help individuals with vision or hearing impairments and various learning disabilities.]]> 2022-04-18 17:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147298798 jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147326392 https://www.diagrammingapps.com/kidspirationmaps

Kidspiration is an app to engage elementary age students in foundational literacy development. It has a bright and colorful display that is meant to be engaging. It has multiple features that focus on developing pre-writing and reading skills.

The Kidspiration app is bright and colorful and allows the user to interact with the information both visually and auditorily (UDL Guideline 1.2 and 1.3). The app has a writing view in which students can expand on what they wrote with sentences provided in app for scaffolded writing or on a blank page for multiple tools for construction and composition (UDL 5.3) as well as having multiple different options for how to organize information.

This application can remove barriers for learners who need to visualize information. This app can help guide planning and pre-writing skills for students who struggle with writing and writing organization. This app can help breakdown information into more comprehensive chunks and scaffold information for big ideas.

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Kahoot is an application that allows for people to engage and answer questions in a competitive, fun way. It is a great way to make assessment and evaluation fun.
Kahoot fosters collaboration and community (UDL Guideline 8.3) by allowing students to quiz with their peers. The results are anonymous but their is still a winner. This increases Mastery-oriented feedback as student can track whether they are correct or not in a low-stakes setting while also seeing the correct response nearly instantly (UDL Guideline 8.4).
This could help learners who benefit from working in a collaborative setting. This could help learners be engaged with the information. This could help learners who benefit from instant feedback as well as a low-stakes assessment.]]> 2022-04-18 18:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147340997 jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147352371 https://www.gonoodle.com/tags/QXBVXl/activity-type
GoNoodle is an app that promotes movement, regulation, and breaks for kids. It has multiple different activity types and topics available.

GoNoodle has videos for students to follow along to. Many are focused on a break, release, and other regulation strategies. This supports UDL Guideline 9.2, facilitate personal coping skills and strategies. With all of the different topics of interest and activity styles, it optimizes relevance, value and authenticity (UDL Guideline 7.2) as well as individual choice and autonomy (UDL Guideline 7.1) even offering a freestyle option.

This could help students who struggle to sit for long periods of time and require frequent breaks in their learning. This could help learners who need to express themselves through movement. This could help learners who are developing skills of regulation.

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Reading Eggs is an application that has interactive lessons, ebooks, and reading games and activities for kids.

Reading Eggs offers ebooks that can be read through visual text as well as each page having a read aloud option for students to use (UDL Guideline 1.1 and 1.2) The books have a section for keywords and vocabulary within the stories to clarify vocabulary and symbols (UDL Guideline 2.1). Students can take comprehension quizzes and can go to the part of the story where the information is held to go back and review that specific part with guides information processing and visualization (UDL Guideline 3.3). Reading Eggs has multiple different levels within the app as well as a ranking of the books in the library. The settings can be customized for the learners abilities and levels and they will increase as the student progresses to build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance (UDL Guideline 5.3).

This could help learners who struggle with reading and comprehension. This could help with learners who struggle to stay engaged with stories. This could help learners self-pace in their reading skills. ]]> 2022-04-18 18:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147367852 jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147392585 Visual schedules are a low-tech way to include in a classroom or activity. 

This helps students enhance capacity for monitoring progress throughout (UDL 6.4) any activity or the class or day. This can help minimize threats and distractions (7.3) as student know what to expect and when as well as promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation (9.1) throughout any class or activity.

This could help students who struggle with focus, and self regulation. This can help students who like predictability and structured schedules. ]]> 2022-04-18 18:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147392585 jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147413298 https://www.flocabulary.com/
Flocabulary offers educational videos and learning activities ranging from grade levels K-12 on academic and on various topics.

Flocabulary can optimize relevance, value, and authenticity (7.2) by providing fun and engaging educational videos that appeal to the audience and age group with relevant content in a way that can be fun. It uses multiple media for communication (5.1) by using song and video for educational content. It works to break down information and ideas and has a vocabulary section to clarify vocabulary and symbols (2.1).

This could help students who need information represented in different ways. It can help activate knowledge that has already been taught in a engaging and different way. It can help students who learn visually, auditorily and kinetically. It can help students who struggle to focus and engage with content.

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Equatio by texthelp is an application for mathematics. Users can handwrite or speak equations or type on their device. 

Users can get math equations read aloud to them (1.3) and can handwrite equations into the program (1.1) offering a way to customize the display of information and offer an alternative for visual information. The app includes the decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols (2.3) with the inclusion of visual graphs and a graphing calculator.

This could help learners who have dyslexia or other learning disabilities who struggle with math or written equations. ]]> 2022-04-18 20:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147537433 jrowell22 https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147556740 https://nearpod.com/
Nearpod is a teaching platform that allows lessons to be taught through interactive slides, videos, quiz games, and activities.

Nearpod uses multiple media for communication (5.1) by allowing students to interact with a lecture over Zoom, through the Nearpod slide, with interactive games and communication boards. It offers multiple ways to customize the display of information (1.1) as the teacher can choose things like font size and color as well as background style and colors. Nearpod has interactive quiz games and interactive features that can be done as an individual or a group to foster collaboration and community (8.3).

This could help students who can benefit from working in a group or collaborative setting. This could help students who need information adapted in many ways as the teacher can design the lesson with many customizable settings. The quiz games can help students engage in the material and also allow for self-assessment throughout the lesson.

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The Signing Apps have a Signing Science Dictionary which has illustrated and interactive 3D depictions of ASL and SE. 

The signing dictionary offers ways to customize the display of information (1.1) with written definitions, pictures, and 3D depictions. This promotes understanding across languages (2.4) by depicting signs for ASL and SE.

This could help students who are Deaf or hard of hearing as well as communication partners of those who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This could help those trying to learn ASL or SE and can benefit from visual or written information.]]> 2022-04-18 21:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jrowell22/xl4roqx6gjgjwu9n/wish/2147562182