UDL and Nature-based Play
Check out the Spring 2019 article I wrote for Highscope’s Active Learner magazine!
Check out the Spring 2019 article I wrote for Highscope’s Active Learner magazine!
Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in several ways, from CAST.org
What does it really mean to use a UDL lens? This series by Kathy McClaskey explores how Universal...
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Search, or browse by title or author.
Juicy Studio offers this article on Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties:When people think about accessibility of web content, there's a tendency to concentrate on people with visual impairments. People with cognitive impairments and learning difficulties are often overlooked.This article by Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, and Peter Firminger, examines the types of problems visitors may encounter when using the web, with insightful and practical...
I blogged before about One Laptop Per Child's Give 1 Get 1 program. Kudos to David Pogue of the New York Times for putting the promotion in such a clear light, and for his review of the new laptop's features, limitations and capabilities. My son and I were talking today about whether or not this might be what we do for our holiday giving this year: something for...
Now this is amazing to me: dotSUB uses a Creative Commons license and a wiki format to provide video captioning in multiple languages. Anyone can view the videos in any of the available languages. To upload, caption or translate a video, you need a registered account. The opportunities here are endless, for people learning languages, sharing cross culturally, those struggling with literacy or those who can't hear. Explore...
Karen Janowski does it again... an extensive blog post on free technology tools for universal design in the classroom. Karen is one of the most down-to-earth and get-it-done people I know and she has a great way of communicating. Bookmark her post and keep coming back for updates. Now, what I'd really like to see is a wiki on the same topic, so we could all add in...
This is what I've been looking for (and still am, since it's PC only, and I'm a Mac, as they say...). The Oregon Digital Library Consortium Library2Go lets you check out audio library materials by digital download, from home (or anywhere), just as you would check out a book from the library - for FREE, with the same usage rights you'd have with any checked out material. Very...