Authors: King-Sears, Margaret1 Source: Learning Disability Quarterly; Fall2009, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p199-201, 3p The author explains the concept of universal design for learning (UDL). According to the author, UDL is not solely about the use of technology in education, but it is also about the pedagogy, or instructional practices used for students with or without disabilities. She adds that UDL has seven guiding principles, which include equitable use, flexibility in use, simple and intuitive use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort and size and space for approach and use.

This worked fairly well for making Help videos for Win Machines- Saves a lot of questions on setting up accounts instructions.

A fun way to make short videos-Worked great for "A day in the life of..." Projects.

It allows asynchronous viewing and collaboration on projects using several different media types.

A great way for students to hear their compositions read back to them, and hear how sentence structure affects the writing. It really makes a difference in their composition.

Web 2.0 tools organized by functionality. CometDocs saved a bunch of time converting old lesson plans to editable docs, and zamzar saved the day for many student presentations that arrived in a format we didn't have a player for.

An interesting ESL site for practicing english in reading and listeng formats. Age appropriate for Middle & High School students

Excellent site for tutoring or team collaboration. A student out with illness was able to keep up to date and work on a team project with this.

Great site for math help and practice assignments with explanations. Flipped Classroom tool- assign then discuss in class. Students can review at their timetable.

Short videos about big subjects. Very handy-"Big data" Net Safety Money Politics great for multi faceted information presentation. Definate UDL tool.

Strips page to basic content-easier to focus & read. Makes it easier for students to research on Internet.

This removes a lot of distracting sidebar material and helps focus.

Teacher PLN and PD by Kate Smith Great site for getting onto the web 2.0, many helps

toolkit item

This journal helped me figure out what a toolkit is, and how to identify some of the pieces.

I found this article helpful to generate class profile, to help choose tools to use.

Great site on 508 conformance - Online learning for Students with disabilities. 

A list of options to try as assistive tech in the classroom. This gives many options than can be tried outside of the SPED framework.