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UDL Wiki Assignment Details

Goals: - investigate discuss and present text chapters about Universal Design for Learning

- develop experience using online collaborative technologies (wiki)

- learn how to make a podcast

Chapter 1 - 8 from __http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/__

Assignment - Research your assigned chapter. - Create a written and audio-based summary of your chapter ● Introduce and describe the focus of the chapter ● Describe at least 3 main ideas ● Reflect on how these ideas might have been incorporated into your personal educational or teaching experiences ● Discuss how technology might help to address the ideas presented ● Create both a written and one-two minute audio synopsis (podcast) that you will post on our class wiki for your assigned chapter

- Keep in mind that the written content is NOT just a transcription of your podcast, but is instead a dynamic, unique way of presenting the content from your assigned chapter. It can, and should, contain links to video, include photos, as well as text content

Suggested experimental technologies: bubbl.us, wiki, jing, vocaroo, audacity, glogster.edu (On Bb, under the assignment folder for the UDL wiki there are links to tutorials for these tools.)

Resources to get started: Class text - __http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/__ A Study Guide for the text with useful questions that may guide your write-up or podcast content - http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/101042/chapters/An-ASCD-Study-Guide-for-Teaching-Every-Student-in-the-Digital-Age@-Universal-Design-for-Learning.aspx National Center for UDL - __http://www.udlcenter.