Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Notes for 2/4/09

2/4/09 Notes

UDL-Universal Design for Learning

ADA- Examples of ADA not really working, curb cuts not good for blind.  Lower shelves not good for tall people.

UDL-good for all students in your classroom.  Think about how you teach, your student's individual strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to use whatever they can to show that they understand the concept. 

CAST creators of Universal Design for Learning.

Your UDL paper is broken up in two parts: 1) the research found on UDL, 2) how UDL will apply to your classroom.  UDL is due on 2/18/09-2/24/09.  Double spaced, one page title, one page bibliography, One page abstract.  Upload it to TurnItIn.com

plagarism.org

national library of virtual manipulatives; good understanding of concepts

Ideas for themes of preschool and autism: week 13 virtual reality therapy

www.froguts.com dissect a frog online
www.storynory.com 
www.librivox.org  free audio books
www.bookshare.org
www.sd21.org/curriculum/lincoln

Text edit plus ( free for Mac's) will speak text as they are written
solo write out loud-speaks letter each time it is written
www.cepstral.com text to speech with natural voices to them.
QIAT listserv-ask the question how to change the voices from adult to children 
Cepstral may be able to download them into SDPro so there are more natural voices.




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