Kathy Cassidy is a brilliant first grade teacher. This link focuses on digital portfolios for grades one and two. It was part of her resent presentation at BLC14/ You may wish to share this link with your lower elementary teachers.
Visual notetaking is a process of representing ideas non-linguistically. (That's a fancy of way of saying, "drawing pictures.") Visual notetaking can include concept mapping, but also more artistic ways of visually capturing and representing ideas. On the simpler side of the visual notetaking continuum, visual notes can be used to create narrated art. On the complex end of the spectrum, some visual notetaking applications support the creation of whiteboard animation videos which include audio narration synchronized to screencasts of drawings. Visual or graphic facilitation can be used at meetings to summarize presentations and guide discussions. Whether simple or complex, visual
"Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed
citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a
straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format."
Thanks to Marsia for sharing this in your resource.
Slides from a presentation. Contains ideas and apps. You may find some ideas that would work in your UDL Project.
Even though the title is iPads, the ideas will fit other technologies.