BC UDL

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.

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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.

How Smartboards can be used within a UDL context.

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.

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.