BC UDL

This UK site has 400 activities available for purchase (99pence each) and 15 sample activities. Tried several and they were excellent!

Excellent Resource for classroom science programs. Includes videos, interactives, and a section where students can email their questions about science to scientists!

Harcourt site doesn't require keyboard to use punctuation. Recommended by James Hollis for use with the SB.

Recommended by Kelley Tenkley as free and intuitive with embedded music player...haven't tried it yet.

Looking for an exciting and imaginative way to plan lessons that fit with the ways kids already think? Our school district is involved in Kieran Egan's Learning in Depth program which is a great fit with the udl principle Multiple Means of Engagement. Examples of lessons and downloadable lesson planning frameworks for imaginative education at this site.

This wiki was created by a Cowichan teacher, Elaine Nessman, to host primary resources for the SMARTBoards. Includes Notebook lessons and links to her Delicious site.

Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

The BC Ministry of Education has included UDL as a strategy for designing learning materials that meet the needs of diverse learners.

StudyBUZZ is a test preparation tool for grades 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. StudyBUZZ gives students personalized study guides that are directly aligned to BC, Alberta, Florida and Wahington Curriculum. The free tool helps them figure out what they do and don't know so they can use their study time more wisely.

On the left hand side, click the links for UDL resources or examples. They have some great strategies posted for assisting with curriculum elements such as printed text, lecture, etc.

Wow. Tauscher blogs about Dragon and other AT software/hardware but her latest post is everything you ever wanted to know about using JAWS with a variety of social networking applications. Not for the faint-hearted.

Unbelievable collection of resources...audio books, etext, and subject related categories such as graphing tools, classroom organizers, etc.

Text to speech site that accepts typed text, uploaded Word and .pdf files and creates an audio with a talking avatar. You can then download as mp3, podcast, email. Free account is limited to 30 second recordings but special teacher package is available.

Very cool Firefox extension lets you select a word and perform a multitude of actions including reference to dictionaries or wikipedia, convert, translate, shop, share, etc. Check out the popular Firefox Add-On Hyperwords.Updated to version 5.5 and now supports Twitter and Facebook. Available for free from http://www.hyperwords.n...

Awesome free site creates embed code that you can use to embed documents or videos on your wiki or website. Very cool because once embedded you can scroll or enlarge sections of the document.

Canada's most prominent cyber presence? He likes to write 1/2 an hour a day online! He puts technology in perspective...does it help us communicate? Does it promote learning growth?

The BC Ministry of Education has included UDL as a strategy for designing learning materials that meet the needs of diverse learners.