Notes from the online meetings, presentations, wikis, and webcasts will be posted here.
David Rose webcast Reaching Every Student in the Digital Age (October 08 LATA Conference) |
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Paul Hamilton wiki Multimedia and Digital Story-telling |
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Maureen LaFleche UDL-designed Resources wiki for To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Anita Strang and Mallory Burton video interview Impact of UDL at Birchland Elementary
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Sep-Nov 2009 BC UDL Fall Training In the fall of 2009, the project leader visited each of the 7 school-based UDL teams to provide two days of Onsite UDL Training. A description of the two days and links to all of the training resources are provided here.
Photo of David Livingstone School |
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Oct 29, 2009 Firefox New 2013: Paul now endorses Google Chrome and blogs extensively about its many useful features in his Free Resources from the Net.Paul Hamilton presented Why Firefox is a Better Browser for UDL, featuring ClickSpeak, Answers.com, and Awesome Highlighter. He also showed how easy it is to install both the TidyRead and Readability applications which can be used to reduce clutter on web pages. Paul mentioned Ira Socol's Toolbelt Theory and the importance of helping students to choose and assemble a collection of tools that work for them. In the onsite training we have been looking at a Technology Toolbelt for Teachers involved in the UDL project. |
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December 3, 2009 Team leaders met online to preview the Jan-Feb 2010 Proposed Agenda for Online Meetings These are now all listed below in greater detail.
Flickr CC photo from Tim in Sidney. |
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December 10, 2009 |
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Jan 7, 2010 BCUDL LOR: The BC UDL LOR houses shared UDL lessons created by team members. This session covered lessons, downloading, passwords, lesson template, uploading lessons |
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Jan 14, 2010 Designing Lessons Using SMARTBoard's Notebook Software; Lesson Activity Toolkit, Title and Lesson Pages, Graphics, Tools, Activities and Games. |
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Jan 21, 2010 UDL principle Providing Multiple Examples
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Jan 28, 2010 Creative Commons and Public Domain, and Working with Clip Art and Images
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Feb 4, 2010 Working with Music and Sounds, Working with Video
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Feb 11, 2010 UDL principle Highlighting Critical Features
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Feb 18, 2010 UDL principle Using Multiple Media |
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Feb 25, 2010 UDL principle Supporting Background Knowledge
Lyell Island Longhouse Flickr CC photo by sataylor |
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March 4, 2010 A UDL Lesson Makeover; discussion of lessons in progress |
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March 8-12 Spring Break
Spring Blossoms Flickr CC photo by Noel Zia Lee |
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March 18 Removing Curriculum Barriers: Scaffolding Access to Printed Text. New (August 2010): I have rewritten this page, organizing most of the same information by considering The Expanded UDL Guidelines and Reading Printed Text.
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March 25, 2010 Cancelled |
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April 1, 2010 Paul Hamilton presented on Digital Storytelling. | |
April 8, 2010 UDL principle Provide Flexible Models of Skilled Performance |
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April 15, 2010 Julie Krall will present on Vocabulary Strategies |
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April 22, 2010 UDL principle Provide Opportunities to Practice with Supports
Abacus Flickr CC photo by ansik |
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April 29, 2010 UDL principle Provide Ongoing Relevant Feedback |
May 6, 2010 Removing Curriculum Barriers: Scaffolding Student Writing |
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UDL principle Offer Flexible Opportunities for Demonstrating Skill UDL principle Offer Choices of Content and Tools |
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May 20 Maureen LaFleche will present on designing UDL units for novel study: Holes and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rae Thompson will present on the THIEVES strategy for previewing text. |
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May 27 UDL principle Offer Adjustable Levels of Challenge |
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June 3 UDL principle Offer a Choice of Rewards Discussion: how UDL supports motivation.
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June 10 UDL principle Offer a Choice of Learning Context |
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June 14 F2F meeting in Vancouver |