BC UDL

Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game. This would be a fun activity for middle and high school students. Warning...it's completely addictive.

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

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If you want to bookmark only one site for teaching English, this would be a good choice. The sidebar on the left takes you to an incredible number of resources in drama, grammar, ESL, literature, Shakespeare, children's literature, and more. The resourc

This is a collaborative space by many of the leaders in digital education including Ian Jukes, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and others.

This Northwest Education Technology Consortium site features three strong examples of classroom integration of technology, one each from elementary, middle, and high school level.s. To provide valuable context, each example features background information about the school and teacher, how the projects was planned and organized, how students accessed technology, and how teachers assessed students work. Examples of student work are included. The format used is very engaging and provides a good model of how to present a unit.

This is a large collection of public domain photos in a searchable database.

Why not have Robert Munsch himself read books to your kids?

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

A website that combines literary tours with Google Maps to show the locations in a book or social studies lesson.

Utah's Jordan School District has a great selection of curriculum resources for teaching with technology. This is the district that created the Pay Attention video, and you can download it here.

You can create your own online books here or browse and download books created by others. Options include the ability to add comments by avatars.

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.

Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents." Recommended by Paul Hamilton March 2009 post.

A very large collection of instructions and/or graphic organizers for reading activties.

The Access Center improves students' access to the general education curriculum. The Access Center assists students with disabilities as well as students with other needs. There are links to videos about UDL and many great resources on this site.

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

Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

This is a powerful video from CBC. It introduces the world of people within the autism spectrum disorder and provides insight into how they feel about us, our views toward them, learning, etc. Fascinating!