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Technology
WatchKnowLearn is a free website that provides teachers and students with educational videos. This UDL website provides teachers and students with videos in a variety of disciplines. WatchKnowLearn even categorizes videos into their alignment with the Common Core State Standards. This is a great website that reaches students who are very much visual learners. Check out this video that explains the site in detail!
Quality Rating: 4 |
The UDL Tech ToolKit is an outstanding wiki that provides many different resources to meet the needs of ALL students. There are links provided for literacy, writing, research, math, UDL, story telling, and study skill tools. Going further, the wiki provides opportunities for text to speech and speech to text tools. This is a great resource for teachers to reference to help meet the needs of all of their learners. I think the text to speech and speech to text resource is remarkable and very useful for teachers. To find out more about UDL, the Universal Design for Learning, check out this website or watch this simplified video.
Quality Rating: 5 |
Prezi is an online presentation tool. This tool is whiteboard friendly and also allows for touch navigation. This tool also lends itself well to boost student creativity with endless options when drafting their own presentations. Quality Rating: 4 |