To reset the Flip, hold down pwr button 10 seconds or insert pin in the tripod hole.

This post used resources from the BC UDL Website, the LOR, and Anita's Blog!

Anita was a team leader in last year's bc udl project. This post is a very moving account of how udl has changed her job.

This is a set of mindmapping software links I made into a webslide show.

There are some very good ideas for implementing UDL principles in teaching writing on this page.

Tikatok is a digital story telling tool. Children can create their own books and upload illustrations. They can select who can see their books online. Teacher Tools include a special dashboard and notifications about their students' activities on the site.

This is a great free site for kids to create and share stories in comic form. I tried it and found it to be a very simple interface. You select a page layout and can add your own pictures or pictures from the web. You add your choice of talk balloons and double click to add the text. You can also add text for titles. There are some good examples of student work on the site, e.g. on the French Revolution.

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Big Universe(R) is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.

Make very cool animated movies just by typing. Be careful to turn off the ability of others to comment as some problems have been reported by team members.

This is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. (1000 and growing) Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.\n\nYou may write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or pictures you upload. Some of the books may be inappropriate, so have students select from your favourites.

Very kid friendly tutorial on paragraph writing using an apple.

This is a version of Glogster designed especially for educational use. Great, because this removes one of the reservations teachers might have about letting students use Glogster because students might run across innapropriate content. Glogster.com - Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. It is fantastic!

Type in a word and you get a list of words that rhyme. Would be great for writing poetry.

Click the type of format and this website puts your citation into correct form.

Slideshow of 35 creative ways to use a pocket video camera such as a Flip Mino. Kathy Rice found this; might need to sign in to Google docs to access.

Collection of SMARTBoard activities for math, algebra.

Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

If you are planning a novel study on a book that has won the Newberry or Caldecott Medal, start here! This site contains literature ladders with links related to all aspects of the study of various award-winning novels. For example, the Holes (Louis Sachar) Literature Ladder contains links about the author, bully, homelessness, juvenile detention, Texas, lizards, the desert and more. The site also shows you how to create your own literature ladder.

World Math Day is March 4, 2009. This post describes a world-wide online competition you may want to participate in.