Amazing site presented by the Coquitlam team at the UDL conference. Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Kids area has interactive activities for each strategy, teacher area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Amazing spelling site recommended by James Hollis (Teachers Love SMARTBoards). Input a list of spelling words and click test me, teach me, or play a game. The test me section gives the word orally , uses it in a sentence, and the student spells it and gets feedback. The teach me section spells the word orally and uses it in a sentence. The play a game section instantly generates games such as word search, crosswords, hangman using the spelling words. The games work great on a smartboard.

This is a webslides tour of ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

Detailed description (and video) of a vocabulary game using wordle word clouds. The blogger had created a wordle and covered up the words with with rectangles. Students came to the SMARTBoard one at a time to touch the rectangle and reveal a word. Then they used a spinner to tell them to use the word in a sentence, tell how many syllables, or give a synonym or antonym. The rectangles were colour coded by degree of difficulty so the teacher could differentiate instruction. You can download the Notebook file, and the blogger promises a tutorial for this idea.

October 15, 2008 post. Seventeen Halloween SMARTBoard activities.

Ideas for importing text to wordle and using that text in a lesson to discover the "gist" of an article or poem.

This is a toy for generating word clouds from text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, colours, and layouts. Take a screen shot to save your creation as there isn't a way to export as a jpeg. Wordles would make great title pages or slides and could be a fun class brainstorming activity or a way for kids to practice writing their spelling words.

Two practical ideas for using Wordle on a SMARTBoard.

Hi Lindsey. I just posted a link to an Education World site that contains a few kid-friendly assessment tools and explanations. It's tagged "learning styles" and assessment.

Lindsey Hamilton wrote:
> Can any one help with kid-friendly resources for assessing students learning styles? Something that kids can use to discover how they learn best/learning style?

Student Learning-Strengths Inventory. This page includes some kid-friendly assessment tools.

Very nice online resources for different types of writing. Student and teacher resources.

Excellent site with online math manipulatives. Would be great on the SMARTBoard. A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

This is a web browser designed just for kids that allows access to 800,000 sites that have been pre-approved for kids.

Recommended by iLearn blog. Website with materials for teaching Internet safety.

Great internet safety site.

Very nice eportfolio site with great student examples. Student Jess has created a very attractive page.

This is a narrated tour of the main Web2.0 writing tools currently available. I bookmarked for the excellent content but also as a great example of how to use Flowgram to do a narrated web tour.

This is an amazing tool for students or teachers to create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, Power Point and more with your voice, notes and highlights. Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.

This is the main page for the BC UDL project. Check out the links to the Resources and the LOR, where UDL lessons are posted by team members.

SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program designed to assist school districts in British Columbia in meeting the assistive technology needs of students with physical disabilities and visual impairments. There are lots of free downloadable tutorials and curriculum materials associated with AT programs such as Kurzweil, Clicker5, Boardmaker, and others at this site.