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great super bowl ad to use in Kurzweil workshops talks about how he invented ocr and text-to-speech

Cool new tech enables you to control screen without even touching.

Basically turns anything that you can alligator clip to into a computer interface. Created by two grade students at MIT who started a website looking for $25,000 investment and now have $386,000 after just 11 days. For $35 definitely getting one of these!

Fantastic video by Tod Rose at Harvard describing how designing for average designs for no one. Uses an example from the Air Force and applies it to education.

former poet laureate Billy Collins improves on a very bad poem with hilarious results. would make a great intro to the study of metaphor at the secondary level.

former poet laureate Billy Collins improved on a very bad poem with hilarious results

Cute anime drawings with lots of Canadian symbols set to Arrogant Worms song Rocks and Trees.

Great song about the significance symbols on Canadian coins. Challenge your students to write verses for the Loonie and Toonie.

After you try a couple of these, look up "magic pen" on youtube and prepare to be amazed!

There's currently a contest going on for the best UDL implementation video. Here's a link to some of the entries.