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Hello out there:)

Well where to begin. I work for the Wilson school district as the Intermediate Learning support teacher at Cornwall Terrace Elementary. My family, parents, siblings, two of my children and grand children live in Illinois. My other son lives in Tampa, Florida andI have one grands on here. I found the house we bought here ten years ago in a Country Living magazine while I was living in Orange County California.

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What is UDL?

It is a method or practice for differentiating instruction for learning that can be supported by and through the use of digital media, bringing the classroom into the 21st century.

5 new technologies: ebooks, text to voice, voice, to text, SMART boards, ipods, ﻿ the National Library of Virtual Technology, Live Scribe SMART pen was really cool. I want one. 4 ideas to share with others: What UDL is. How it is used with students. The various sites that are applical to the classroom. I have already forwarded several of the sites from the article, 'Inclusives Technologies to a couple of my team members. Today I discovered even more ﻿sites to shared with my team mates. 3 principles of Universal Design for Learning: Flexible methods presentation. Flexible methods of expression. Flexible methods of engagement. 2 changes in your teaching to reach all learners in the Digital Age: Use more technology in my classroom. Plan for more hands on. I have already begun implementing for media into my classroom when differentiating the instruction during math as well as reading. I can't wait to get started with all this new techonology. I feel that more of the students will be actively engaged in their learning. 1 BIG idea to implement “on Monday” (What one thing can you take from this course that you can try on Monday?) Presenting a lesson with a video from goanimate.com. On Monday I plan to use two of the introduced web sites for students to use to discribe how reading is for them and how math is for them. They can either do this through a story, dialogue, and visual. Tomorrow I am going to reserve the laptop cart so that I will have a computer for each of my students to use.

We are again with so many sites to look through and so many ideas of ways to use them that pop into your brain. Where to start? the information I gain from the article, 'Inclusive Technologies' was the various ways there are available for students to access information regardless of their skills level (physical, sensory, or cognitive). With the use of media each student can have the ability to **access** the core concepts of instruction. There is also the **choice** of manner that the material is being use for producing a given product or accessing the content. For the students who are the **"high flyers**" the options to go beyond the instructed content at their speed is easily planned for by the ise of multi media.