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Monica Kissel and Adina Popa from Loudoun County Public Schools, both Innovative Educators of the Year, will discuss kinesthetic learning. Sponsored by the Innovations Committee. How do we engage our 21st Century students? How do we help them understand that the material covered in class is relevant to their lives? In his book "Motivating Students to Learn," Jere Brophy suggests that students learn best when they are actively engaged with the content. Through kinesthetic learning, they develop lasting skills that many times translate into higher levels of student achievement. But how does kinesthetic learning look in a 21st Century classroom? The answer is simple: gesture-based learning. Does this initiative belong to the future? Not according to the 2011 Horizon Report which highlights Gesture-Based Computing as one of the six emerging technologies that will likely enter mainstream use within the next four to five years. The purpose of this session is to identify current technologies that employ gesture recognition, and then present innovative and replicable ways through which these technologies have been used at Steuart Weller Elementary. From turning shy students into persuasive public speakers through Avatar Kinect, to opening a world of possibilities to students with special needs though Kinect Adventures, to saving animal species with partner classrooms across the globe using multiple technologies, to exergaming, children have been immersed in a world of learning that they love. Attendees learn not only what relevant technologies are available, but also how to use these technologies in any curriculum area

Engaging kids in creative video productions allows them to develop communication skills and enhances their technical know-how. It also gives them an avenue through which they can practice multimodal expressions and present information in numerous ways.This multimodality in communicating information does not only help students understand topics much better and at a deeper level but is also an elemental feature of the 21st century learning.

Use this site to create engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Welcome to Book Builder! Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Use the Happiness Audit to learn and document how to engage each student. Have your families participate in this lasting record to pass along in transitions and to tailor your instruction.

This site provides an introduction of UDL, the opportunity to check your curriculum for UDL compatibility, and the option to explore resources for building options and flexibility into each component of your curriculum.

Use this CAST interactive online tool to help you apply UDL principles in your teaching to reach and engage all of your students. Learn about UDL, Check Your Curriculum, or Explore Resources for ideas on how to build options and flexibility into each element of your curriculum.

This free online tool helps educators build options and flexibility into each element of the curriculum (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) in order to reach and engage all students.

Summer is over in our part of the world and that means we get the opportunity to work with a whole new crop of students and clients. There is so much for beginning clinicians to know about providing AAC services that it is intimidating at best and overwhelming in most cases.

This free downloadable PDF has lots of great ideas for brain breaks to help activate, energize, and stimulate your students and help keep them engaged.

Even the smallest things, like the living cell, become big enough to grasp in Rob Olazagasti's middle school science class, where he enables students to learn by creating, remember by experiencing, and show what they know by teaching.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the

This is a fun and FREE way to teach learning Reading Comprehension Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.

"Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs."

A comprehensive catalog of educational technology. If you like the concepts of universal design for learning this book will bring you to the next level with technology. The book outlines the very best educational technology to reach special education students, diverse learners and engage all students in the learning process. There is a new generation of low-cost technology to help reach challenging students like never before. This gives teachers countless tools to include in your UDL toolbox and enhance your teaching.

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.

Meet the creators of Adobe Voice and hear their take on what makes a story engaging and memorable. Voice is a free iPad app that helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming - just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact. Show your story. Create a stunning animated video - in minutes.

"Create your own customized HTML 5 widgets using our simple online generator then drag and drop into iBooks Author. Bookry widgets let you engage, challenge, entertain and interact with your readers like never before. Readers can play games, solve puzzles, draw pictures and save any data they enter into your widgets to the cloud. They can also share their data with others by email,Twitter, Facebook and Evernote."

using ActivInspire during math instruction

This YouTube video shows ActivInspire's math tools, including a calculator, ruler, protractor, dice, compass, and more! Make math lessons engaging and interactive! Students who have difficulty handling math manipulatives may have more success using these virtual tools on a computer or on a Promethean board.

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!Variety of e-books

UDL Editions take advantage of the flexibility of digital media to reach and engage all learners. Leveled supports and the Texthelp Toolbar balance challenge and support for each learner, ages 10 and up. Select your book to get started!

Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice by Anne Meyer, David H. Rose, & David Gordon $59.99 (Paperback/Full color edition) | $29.99 (Paperback/Black and white) Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL in the '90s, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years.

iSolveIt puzzles provide an engaging way for students to develop the logical thinking and reasoning skills that are essential in mathematics.

"Seasonal change is all around us. We see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North engages students and citizen scientists around the globe in tracking wildlife migration and seasonal change. Participants share field observations across the northern hemisphere, exploring the interrelated aspects of seasonal change. Sunlight and the Seasons Discovering how sunlight drives seasonal change by tracking changes in day length, or photoperiod. Plants and the Seasons Exploring plant growth in tulip test gardens, running an experiment to track the arrival of spring. Seasonal Migrations Following animal migrations. Observing, reporting, and tracking travels across the hemisphere. Journey North is a free, Internet-based program presented by Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation."

Adobe Captivate workshop - use to create engaging demonstrations, simulations, and evaluations