BC UDL

glog as per TKAM meeting

Incredible collection of flash to teach middle and high school math. The flash is interactive, allowing you to change a variable such as the value of an exponent and then see how that changes the value in an equation. For example, kids can experiment by altering the value of exponents to learn why we keep the base and add exponents when we're multiplying two powers with the same base. Jim teaches in Alberta.

Short videos about each element are embedded in the periodic table.

temaplates for Smartboards

This is a great summary of UDL and a rubric-type chart of practical ideas for getting started in implementing UDL. Thanks to Maureen LaFleche for pointing me to this site!

This is a site for teachers or librarians to test technology literacy skills with 6th grade or 9th grade students. It may be a useful tool!

Assessment tool to evaluate 6th and 9th grade student technology literacy skills.

This site has some great review lessons with interactive games. My Grade 6 students loved reviewing geometry terms with fireworks they set off themselves!

Great resource for secondary students. Summary, notes, guides, and analysis of themes and characters for English Literature homework. The aim of this website is to make learning more relevant and fun for students in the digital age. Graduate students have compiled some excellent units.

A great division video for Grade 6 in BC.

This takes division to include a 4-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with remainder. It shows a traditional method of long division.

Phenomenal set of lessons which use Google Earth to teach real world math. There are several lessons under each of 4 main topics: concepts, measurement, project-based learning, and exploratory. The author provides a screenshot, objectives and description of the lesson with a downloadable .kmz file and downloadable .doc worksheet. Probably more suitable for middle school or high school. If the Lessons link doesn't work from the main page, go to the resources page and click on lessons.

Excellent engaging and educationally sound instructional videos. This science site for grades 1-6 also has great accessibility options including visual, auditory and keyboard shortcuts. I learned about this from Paul Hamilton's October 20, 2008 post. According to Paul, Many of the activities include captioned video where the "captions" can be read aloud. Other activities use diagrams and interactive images to present material. All text can be read aloud, and can be repeated upon request.

These are SMARTBoard educational consultant Jaimie Ashton's delicious links for SMARTBoards. Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.

There are excellent quality instructional videos on everything imaginable here. I searched for life cycle and got 106 educational videos on the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, bananas, stars, etc. The geography section has an astounding collection of Canada videos introducing the provinces and the geographical regions. HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations. We do the research so you don't have to.

These free tools remove the obstacles to learning for all students and offer opportunities for struggling learners that promote academic success. When material is digital or electronic, it is flexible and accessible. It is our responsibility as educators to provide materials that promote success. Please encourage all educators to consider using these free tools.

This presentation will describe ways that you can support literacy using free tools found on the internet. Types of technology supports for literacy will be discussed as well as the some of the free tools that are available on the Internet today. The last part of the session will deal with what Universal Design for Learning calls for and how the types of tools discussed can assist educators in achieving Universal Design for Learning in your classroom.

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.

This site was a "favourite" smartboard site listed on another one. Check it out.

A collection of subject-specific smartboard lessons.

Thanks for this post, Jim. This looks like a great assortment of instant video tutorials. I watched the fossil lesson and found it quite entertaining. It was set up as a quest where you had to learn about fossils in the hall of knowledge before earning the right to visit different geological regions.

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.