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Edutopia kills it one more time with this guide for student-centered learning. As most of these guides do, it points out that there has to be infrastructure development for a program like this to work. Administrators should support teachers interested in doing this.

This chart represents student skills which every Caesar Rodney educator should make an integral part of their classroom to improve student learning. Skills are shown at the grade level in which students should demonstrate independent proficiency. Students may need instruction and support to use the skills in projects or assignments in the years preceding the target.

CAST UDL Book Builder has been made possible in part by generous support from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, NEC Foundation of America, The John W. Alden Trust, and The Pinkerton Foundation

Author's Note: This article has been edited to correct inaccuracies in Google Docs functionality in Firefox, and Google Apps support.] Game on. Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software, but Google is virtually synonymous with the Web.

This site walks you through each step on how to upload a video to YouTube and post it on a website. This video is very useful because many videos are uploaded to Youtube and then can be embedded into a website for use.

P21's reports and publications support a vision for learning to ensure 21st century readiness for every student. This link provides resources on the 4Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking.

This website is a great resource to be creative with Google Sheets, explains how to create tables, charts, images, etc. This makes a presentation more engaging and visually appealing.

Create custom maps to share and publish online with Google My Maps. You can make maps that show different kinds of information.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. I spent last week at the LOC in a teacher institute learning how to maximize their digital collections of primary sources to support my social studies class.

LOC "offers classroom materials and professional development tools to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching." (from homepage)

Great article about assistive technologies that can be implemented in a science class.

This project has students creating a blog account for a character in a Shakespeare play and updating it throughout the unit. Students each get assigned a character and have to create a blogging platform for their character. They use this site for all of their assignments during their unit. They need to have a blog post for every scene their character is in and comment on other scenes that their character isn't in. They also need to memorize one passage and record themselves saying it on their blog. I like this as an organizational tool for the assignments over a unit. It gives students a good way to interact with each other and practice their writing while they deepen their understanding of Shakespeare. This project is great because it can be applied to any reading that is being done in a class over a long period of time. A Shakespeare play is read every year in high school in my district and this is something I would want to use in my English class to support that.

This is a faculty teaching guide produced by College STAR (Supporting Transition, Access, and Retention). College STAR was a grant-funded project dedicated to providing materials to help college campuses be more welcoming and attentive to the needs of a wider variety of college student learners. This guide is specifically written from a UDL (Universal Design for Learning) standpoint, which means that the resources provided here will be especially accessible for students with differing needs.

This resource is contains a library of different math and science simulations. There are dozens of different activities students can use that cover a wide variety of topics. These simulations can be used to teach different ideas and support cross curricular learning.

Canvas is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) by Instructure. Canvas is a modern, easy-to-use, reliable and adaptable LMS that supports current and evolving teaching and learning needs. You can use Canvas to: organize your course using an integrated calendaring and syllabus system, content modules, and communication stream.

1. Keep it Simple PowerPoint uses slides with a horizontal or "Landscape" orientation. The software was designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker and supplement the presentation. The slides themselves were never meant to be the "star of the show" (the star, of course, is your audience).

This website contains great advice on how to prepare for, design, and then deliver a professional and effective presentation. Gary Reynolds wrote the best selling book about how to use presentation software called Presentation Zen.

This resource gives a list of 10 tips for better and more effective presentations. It is easy to get carried away when making a presentation. Referencing these tips will help educators and students keep their slides clear concise, and to the point.

CalQlata's technical support for our vessel motions calculator, which calculates displacements, velocities and accelerations of a vessel at sea