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This website offers an in-depth look into what UDL Book Builder is, how it can be integrated into the classroom, and offers tips for producing quality work. This site also offers multiple links to various useful categories.

This website contains training videos on how to recognize the need for accessible web applications, and reach a broader audience.

This site teaches how to make websites that can be used by people of all abilities and disabilities.

Effective communication using Blackboard.

Using the site, http://swearercenter.brown.edu/Literacy_Resources/advocate.html, might be useful for improving thought or action as Mayer (2009) describes as artifacts in creating the community service work place learning project, but I am not sure the purpose of the site relates to my objective in the class. It may be an effective method if my intended audience includes teachers, but not as effective if my audience includes students. This particular medium seems equivalent to a textbook with not much meaningful, interactive learning; however, I will bookmark it for future reference and study.

This is an awesome website with a great multimedia video that is itself conceived with Universal Design principles in mind as the narrator's comments are written at the bottom of the screen for people who might be hearing impaired. The video presentation is geared toward people like me who are passionate about creating accessible faculty websites. The coherent structure of the video promotes active engagement and requires focuses on cognitive activity. In addition, the careful selection of relevant information presented seems to take into account Mayers' limited capacity principle from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning(Mayer, 2009). To me, this workshop is undoubtedly a learner-center approach to learning.

Explore the world through shared stories and pictures about all the places in our lives.

This site boasts a 12 minute video to visually appeal to the learners to see and hear how Google apps can be implemented in the daily life of an educator. It demonstrates for the learner all of the various possibilities that Google has created to alleviate some of the time pressures teachers experience. It is for the teacher who is not aware of all that Google has to offer.

This site presented by the University of Washington provides teachers with directions and links to easily begin to implement multimedia tools in the classroom.

This site provides support for users to create or edit various apps available for the educator. It includes templates, how-to guides and suggestions for implementing an app.

This overview training video is designed both to help existing users understand how to develop a roleplay simulation in the GoVentures platform, and to introduce novices to overall design processes for developing a role-play simulation.

This site is a great icebreaker to a new topic. It provides easy to understand basics on any topic that you might teach. I would encourage teachers to use the quiz program to assess what students already know at the start of the lesson.

BrainPOP is a collection of numerous animated, educational learning videos. They are designed for students in grades K - 12. Many videos also come in Spanish.

BrainPop is a group of 1,000+ short animated curriculum-based content videos with quizzes, supplemental information and related materials in all subject areas, including professional development resources to support K-12 teachers.

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Edutopia is a great resource where teachers share ideas, strategies, and resources. The link shared provides resources on teaching academic English.