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Linda Wilson

Techlearning > > Adding Impact to Digitally-Filmed Stories > October 1, 2007 - 0 views

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    An article on things to teach kids about when they are working on digital videos.  For example, the article talks about transitions and compares them to punctuation - match the visual tools you use with what you want to communicate.
Linda Wilson

http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=jpme - 0 views

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    Culturally Responsive Teaching has many of the same underpinnings as UDL
Linda Wilson

Techlearning > > Giving Students A Voice Through Technology > October 1, 2007 - 0 views

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    Article on using Photo Story and Audacity for kids' projects.  Kids did storytelling and learned the power of their voice.
Linda Wilson

Techlearning > > Breaking News! Students Create Radio-Style Podcasts > October 1, 2007 - 0 views

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    Article about the learning benefits of using podcasts in the social studies curriculum when the goal was to try to infuse reading and writing into the curriculum.
Linda Wilson

LD OnLine :: An Educator's Guide to Making Textbooks Accessible and Usable for Students... - 1 views

  • Information needs to be represented in many ways, including: highlighting important points use of various fonts, colors, and styles llowing text to be spoken
  • E-text versions can be obtained from: Publishers Accessible media providers that create e-text for print-disabled students The Internet (both commercial and public domain resources) Scanning printed work
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    An article that describes what e-text is, it's uses, where to find it, and discusses eligibility for "print disabilities."
Linda Wilson

ESSA Spotlights Strategy to Reach Diverse Learners - Education Week - 0 views

  • Sprinkled throughout the newly reauthorized version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are references to an instructional strategy that supporters think has enormous potential for reaching learners with diverse needs
  • What we had hoped for is that UDL would be something that could be mentioned, not just on the assessment portion [of the law], but on things you can do with the money. We didn't get that," she said
  • Sean J. Smith
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  • What's important for educators to understand, Smith said, is that UDL is not a piece of technology, even though technology can support the practice. Universal design for learning is also not a pre-packaged curriculum, though curriculum developers are embracing new ways of presenting information. Rather, it is an educational process that weaves itself throughout a school, he said
Linda Wilson

Harvard Education Letter - 0 views

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    Introduces two new ideas: 1) that teachers need to start to learn to evaluate text complexity.  It cannot be determined by a formula alone because a judgement also involves a) understanding what background knowledge and tasks will be required of the reader and b) knowing the student's particular characteristics and needs. 2) the second idea is that we can't just rely on giving low readers simpler texts on the same topic, because they need to learn to read and comprehend more complex texts to prepare for college.  So, in some cases, the preference would be to provide scaffolds instead of easier texts.
Beth Poss

PLOS ONE: E-Readers Are More Effective than Paper for Some with Dyslexia - 0 views

  • Our study demonstrates that reading using short lines, displayed via small handheld e-readers, improves reading comprehension and speed in some readers with dyslexia.
  • Crowding, a neurological phenomenon that impairs peripheral recognition of flanked characters, fundamentally limits the number of letters that can be perceived at a glance [10]. Therefore, in order to read efficiently, attention must be directed to the uncrowded span of text, centered at fixation [54], as the gaze shifts during reading. We suggest that attention deficits associated with dyslexia make this a challenge by disrupting processes needed to maintain attention to the uncrowded span, as fixations advance from one word to the next [1].
  • Oversensitivity to text to the left of fixation could arise as a consequence of sluggish attention shifting in dyslexia
Linda Wilson

Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides - 0 views

  • Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books Read Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers
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    Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
    Read Classic Fiction
Linda Wilson

Techlearning > > Helping Young Students to Master Technology > October 1, 2007 - 0 views

  • Recently, students have started using Microsoft Word to compete their journals one to three times a week (using a rotating schedule and one day of full-time computer lab access).
    • Linda Wilson
       
      Think out of the box in order to really integrate technology in a 1-3 computer classroom.
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    Discusses the importance of true integration of technology into the curriculum
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