The DLM® project is guided by the core belief that all students should have access to challenging grade-level content. The new DLM Alternate Assessment System will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple-choice tests cannot. The DLM system is designed to map a student's learning throughout the year. The system will use items and tasks that are embedded in day-to-day instruction. In this way, testing happens as part of instruction, which both informs teaching and benefits students. An end of the year assessment will be created for states that want to include a summative test in addition to the instructionally embedded system.
Core vocabulary explained by Dynamic Learning Maps. The first 5 minutes explain Core Vocab in a nutshell. Then the video goes on to explain aided language stimulation
"Exemplar Text Supports K-12
One of the challenges in providing students with the most significant disabilities with access to the general curriculum is finding materials that link directly to the grade level content, but are written at a level that is accessible. As part of the DLM™ project we have been building a library of companion texts that go with the exemplar texts"
http://secure.dynamiclearningmaps.org/unc/facilitated/index.html
MANY self-directed or guided learning modules. Math, Core Vocabulary..etc
Look for the module titled DLM™ Core Vocabulary and Communication. The module is available in 2 formats. One is a self-directed module with embedded learning activities. The Facilitated version is inside a folder called Facilitated Foundational Modules. It has a narrated movie, 2 or 3 learning activities, and the handouts and directions needed for those activities that a facilitator can use. There is also a copy of the PowerPoint slides without narration that include the videos we showed in our presentation.
Free open-source mindmapping application written in Java. Sample features include folding branches, save to XML, graphical links connecting nodes, web and file hyperlinks and much more
Ten terrific classroom activities that use the newspaper to teach all
sorts of valuable skills -- including reading and writing for meaning, map reading, media literacy, sequencing, word meaning, and math.
"Create diagrams online Real time collaboration!
Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."