Posted in Comments and Reflections on Oct 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
We had five “learning intentions” for participants in this presentation.
To gain an understanding of UDL
To understand why it is important that we understand and embrace UDL in our classrooms now as we are eager to meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations, and as we need to make decisions about the types of technology [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections on Aug 17th, 2009 4 Comments »
Back to school advertisements make me crazy!!! The Staples’ – “Its the most wonderful time of the year” advertisement is running continuously. The picture of those two children dreading school makes me sad. (Wow – the commercial is on again – second time since I started writing this post/rant). I so want school not to [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Comments and Reflections, UDL Theory, Web Links on May 1st, 2009 5 Comments »
Last January I blogged about my reflections following reading: New Directions in Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice by Thomas Hehir. The following thoughts stuck with me and guided my practice over the past year.
Hehir defines ableism as ” deeply held negative attitudes toward disability that are analogous to racism”.
Then I looked up “racism” [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections, Presentations, UDL Stories and Successes on Apr 17th, 2009 3 Comments »
Today I spoke at the CASE (Council of Administrators of Special Education) conference. I was thrilled to have been asked to be a part of this conference and very much enjoyed sharing the exciting things that have been happening in Coquitlam. I based most of what I said on my previous blog posts ”How UDL has [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections on Apr 13th, 2009 No Comments »
This list includes both people I follow many of whom also follow my twitter updates. It is a great way to keep track of what is going on internationally in your area of interest. I mostly follow people who are interested in UDL, Special Education, Educational Technology, and Accessibility. Twitter is a great way to [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections on Mar 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
The process of transforming the way we work with our students is gradual. One of the first things we have been working on is moving away from the ‘resource room’ model where kids who are not reading/writing at grade level miss classroom instruction to be involved in extra instruction to work on their areas of [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections, UDL Stories and Successes, UDL Theory on Feb 28th, 2009 1 Comment »
As a staff we decided that one of the first things we would do when we began to design Universally Designed lessons was to ensure that we were clearly stating our Learning Intention to our students at the beginning of each lesson. Some of our teachers now write the learning intention for each of their [...]
Posted in Comments and Reflections on Feb 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is an excellent tool at: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ to make your own accessible texts.
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addthis_title = ‘CAST+Bookbuilder’;
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Posted in Comments and Reflections on Feb 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
This was created (very simply!!) in Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/. This would be a fun project for kids using their name and descriptors about themselves. It was simple and fun to play with.
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addthis_title = ‘I+made+a+Wordle%26%238230%3B’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Posted in Comments and Reflections on Feb 7th, 2009 No Comments »
This is rough – just messing around but it only took me 15 minutes to put together.
Cool!!
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addthis_title = ‘Roxio%21%21′;
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