How to Get Started

Start by reading this article: Karen Janowski is an Assistive Technology Consultant, this was the beginning for us. Then, Joyce Valenza created a wiki with the Universal Design Toolkit here where things are updated frequently.

Next check out these websites

http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/  -Joyce Valenza's

http://assistivetek.blogspot.com/  -Brian Friedlander

http://www.cast.org/

http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/udl/intro.asp

http://www.alltech-tsi.org/  -Alltech, Maine

http://www.nea.org/home/35905.htm

http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/02/02/top-10-web-20-tools-for-young-learners.aspx

http://atcubed.blogspot.com/   Brian Wojick
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/

http://www.youtube.com/UDLCAST

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/12/15-tools-to-help-students-with.html

Ready to Make Your Student Toolkit? Here is a working toolkit.

Photopeach      a great place for students to use images in a presentation about a book, a project, a concept

Wordle             a great place for students to capture vocabulary in a book, project, pre-teaching, comprehension

What Kind of Learner are You?    let your students check out their learning style

Find a book at your Lexile          let your students check out their lexile reading level choices

Mad Libs                                   let your students create their own mad libs

Library of Congress                  The Library of Congress has great primary source information, students love it.

Ask.com                                   A user friendly place to being a research project.

Citation Machine                       Learners can cite their sources.

Graphic Organizers                    A source for graphic organizers.

Visual Thesaurus                      Just what it says! Students love using this.

Awesome Adjectives and Sensory Words     Stupendous!

Spell Checker                             Great spell checker.

Create your own checklist!         You and your student can create a personalized editing checklist.

Hear your work!                         Use this site to hear your text read to you. Here is an example of the audio      embedded into your wiki.

Thanks for Attending!

Thanks to MeMoves for their drawing prize.