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The Best Things in Life
are free
AT Expo 2007
Dr. Cheryl Wissick, [email protected]
Web Toolboxes
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolbox.html
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In this session…
• View free and low-cost Web resources and
tools that make learning meaningful & increase
productivity.
• Review principles of Universal Design for
learning
• Increase access to the general education
curriculum and provide for diverse learning
needs in the classroom.
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Presentation tools available
• Wissick’s Photo toolbox
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxphoto.html
• Conference Presentation
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/conferences.html
• All Free Tools Available online:
• http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxfree.html
• UDL Info from CAST: http://www.cast.org
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Bias and Perspectives
• Universal Design
• Universal Design for Learning
• Possibility of technology and
implementation of free tools to promote
UDL in the classroom
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Planning ahead
UDL means pre-planning of the curriculum
to evaluate need to provide multiple
access points to reduce barriers:
S = Student FIRST
E = Environment
T = Task
T = Tools
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Multiple means of engagement
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Offer Choices of content, tools and engagement
Provide adjustable levels of challenge
Offer a choice of rewards
Offer a choice of learning context
Choose realistic topics of interest to embed the learning material
Allow student to choose tools or technology to explore topic- software, web,
video
Select Software or Web sites that offer same content at different levels of
challenge
Build awareness of accomplishment and progress within technology
programs
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UDL
Multiple means of presentation
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Provide Multiple Examples
Highlight Critical Features
Provide Multiple Media & Formats
Support Background Knowledge
Variety of web sites to demonstrate, links to support information
Pictures from CD-Roms & web
Word processors to highlight critical words
Presentation tools to animate concepts
Books on tape; Digital text
Charts, graphs, images to support text
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UDL
Multiple means of expression
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Provide Flexible Models of skilled performance
Provide opportunities to practice with supports
Provide ongoing, relevant feedback
Offer flexible opportunities of demonstrating a skill
Examples and not-examples with images, video, live or taped demonstrations
Scaffold learning with text-to-speech, word prediction, layered Web sites
Text-to-speech to listen to own writing
Videotape of skill performance
Online feedback from peers or mentor
Create web pages, poster, presentation
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UDL
Teacher Tools
• UDL Lesson Builder
– http://lessonbuilder.cast.org
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READING
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NIMAS
• National Instructional Materials
Accessibility Standards
• NIMAS http://nimas.cast.org/
• Adoption of a standard format.
Marty R. McKenzie
Statewide Vision Consultant
South Carolina Department of Education,
(843) 662-0278
[email protected]
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Scaffold the process of reading
READPLEASE http://www.readplease.com
• Read any pasted text
• Download & Install FREE
version on all lab
computers for any student
to use.
• Multiple means of
expression
• Increase access to all
visual information.
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Convert Text to Audio Files
• Convert whole book to audio for mp3 player
• Save highlights from a book or text so student
can study main points.
• Natural Voice Reader for Windows
• http://www.naturalreaders.com/
• Multiple means of expression
• Multiple means of presentation
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E-Text Reader
• From: Premier Assistive Technology
• http://www.readingmadeez.com/EtextReader.php
• Download is FREE CD is 49.95
• The E-Text Reader is a full functioning
text reader.
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E-Texts Available
• Reading books online providing multiple
means of presentation:
• Children’s Digital Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Bibliomania
• Bartleby
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Bibliomania Screen Shot
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Reading Fluency &
Comprehension
• Repeated and monitored oral reading
improves reading fluency and overall reading
achievement.
• 44% of a representative sample of the nation's
fourth graders were low in fluency.
• OKAPI: Use Digital text to create reading
fluency prompts
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http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php
Source: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/reading_first1fluency.html
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OKAPI
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Paste text
from web
page and
then
create
reading
probe.
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Teacher
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Student
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Create your own Books
• BookBuilder http://bookbuilder.cast.org
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PowerPoint Interactive Books
• Creative Writing
• Interactive Books
• Coloring Books
See http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxppt.html
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Vocabulary Support
• 1-Click http://www.answers.com
• Download 1-Click AnswersTM 2.0 for
Windows and then Alt-Click on any word in
any program on your screen for an instant,
pop-up AnswerTip that won't interrupt your
work.
• Multiple means of presentation & expression.
• Example: undemonstrative
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Mac: Command+Option+G.
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Written Expression
Concept Mapping Tools
Cmap tools
http://cmap.ihmc.us/
FreeMind
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/i
ndex.php/Main_Page
Expression: Writing Support
Click n Type
• Free onscreen keyboard
• Word prediction
ReadPlease can also
support creative writing
with auditory feedback
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Expression: Read, Write, Think
• Student Materials
• http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
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Read Write Think
Lesson
Plans
By
Grade
• Lessons Activity
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Tool
Expression: Writing Support
Writing Sample Analyzer
http://obsidian.sktyler.com/tools/writer/sample.php
• Copy and paste up to 5000 words.
• Provides students with alternative
support for their writing
• Have students graph their progress.
• Provides 3 types analysis.
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Obsidian Studios
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Idea Generator
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Project
Poster
http://poster.hprtec.org
Students create their
own web page on their
research. Each page
can display one
pictures, body text and
then links with
additional information.
All the posters could
also be linked together
from one Web
Worksheet.
Multiple Means of
Expression
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Scaffolds using Word
• Autosummarize
• Tool in MS word
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Scaffolds in Writing
ACTIVITY 1: Eating lunch
Use cut and paste to
sequence the sentences:
We went back home.
We went to Subway.
We ordered one big sub.
We picked our topping.
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ACTIVITY 2: Matching
Activities can reinforce facts.
• Objective: To redo the group of two
sentences to create one sentence use copy,
cut and paste.
• The kidneys filter out waste.
• The kidneys filter our blood.
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7th grade science
Activities can reinforce facts.
• Possible sentences:
• The kidneys filter out waste in our blood.
• The kidneys filter out waste as they filter our
blood.
• The kidneys filter our blood and get our waste.
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7th grade science
Practice one skill at a time
• Use the word processor to insert the correct
punctuation for this paragraph.
•it was a dark and stormy night the wind
was blowing very hard the rain started to
come through the windows and through the
cracks in the roof we put pans under the
drops we sat in the center of the room to
keep warm we could not keep a fire going
that night
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Review & practice a new skill
• Change this paragraph from a gloomy mood to a happy
mood by using opposites for certain words.
• It was a dark and stormy night. The wind was
blowing very hard. The rain started to come
through the windows and through the cracks in
the roof. We put pans under the drops. We sat
in the center of the room to keep warm. We
could not keep a fire going that night.
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For some students have certain words underlined.
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In what job do you sometimes work outside
and have to be careful in stormy weather?
You use special cutting tools.
You can wear special gloves.
You work with wires.
You can crawl under houses or up tall poles.
PowerPoint
Template for
report writing
This job is called an
electrician.
Additional Narrative goes here.
what an electrician does and
what training they have.
Strategies & Organization
Teaching Core Concepts
• Introduction
The boy is ON the path.
Power Up with PowerPoint
•Discrimination
Which one shows the boys ON the bench?
TIP: Have students create
shows for other student groups.
Engagement: Kidtools & Kidskills
http://kidtools.missouri.edu/
• KidTools are planning and
monitoring tools to help
children gain control over
personal behaviors.
• KidSkills are planning and
organizational tools to help
children use learning
strategies for success
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KidSkills
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4teachers.org
• Tools for Student expression
– Project Poster
– Notestar
– Persuade Star
• Tools for Productivity &
management
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Trackstar
Quizstar
Rubistar
Web Worksheet Wizard
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Web
Worksheet
Wizard
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TrackStar
Organize
Websites
for
student
research
with
Trackstar
http://trackstar.
4teachers.org
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RubiStar http://rubistar.4teachers.org
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PBL Checklists http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/
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Forms & Tests
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Forms drop down boxes
Watermark Matching
Fill in the blank
Excel self-checking
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Mathematics
Tools for Mathematics
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Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.htm
Shodor Interactivate http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
Webmath - tutorials http://www.webmath.com/
Allmath - flash cards http://www.allmath.com
Math.com http://www.math.com
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Talking Calculator
• From: Premier Assistive Technology
• http://www.readingmadeez.com/TalkingCalculator.php
• Full functioning talking calculator
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Virtual Math Manipulatives
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Web
Math
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Technology Toolboxes
• Toolbox: Quickstarts to the Web
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolbox.html
• PowerPoint
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxppt.html
• Wissick’s Photo toolbox
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxphoto.html
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