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 * Alexis Scheck **
 * __Week Six: Additional Tchnology Differentiation Resources __**


 * __**Scholastic **__

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 * __**Google Literature**__

This site provides a reading adventure by taking students on literature field trips. []
 * __**National Geographic**__

This is also a great site to take virtual field trips. In addition, this site has lesson plans, games, and interactive maps.


 * __**PBS Teachers**__

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Provides lesson plans and resources to help differentiate instruction. [|http://www.mybrochuremaker.com]
 * **__Brochure Maker__**

Easy to use site allows students to ceate an authentic brochure where they can add personnal touchs such as photos. I found this site to be easier to use then Microsoft Word brochure maker. Brochures come out more professional looking as well.

Ipods For Classrooms Wiki This Wikispace showcases to use an Ipod to help readiness readers preform self-guided running records. Using this method students can use their Ipod to record themselves reading a previewed selection. Then students playback their audio and mark their miscues on a worksheet that has the text in print. Although this method can be done using a tape recorder, the use of an Ipod makes the activity more enticing to the students. Video examples and student direction videos are also available at this site. Finally, this resource provides additional use of technology in the classroom by showcasing ideas where Quick Response (QR) codes can be used. A QR code is a square matrix of barcodes you can create using free software. The QR codes are links to information you create on the web. The barcodes could be scanned by using a smartphone to connect to the original information. Discovery Education Although this website requires a subscription, it is well worth the cost. Created by the Discovery Channel, this source offers curriculum and assessment tools such as interactive games and lessons as well as a wide variety of videos to support students by both readiness and interest. In addition, this is a great resource for professional development to support educators as well as parents by providing additional activities and homework support. Finally, this site offers educators with puzzle makers which we can use to provide enrichment activities for our students. Technological Support for Differentiated Instruction This is one site that offers a host of links for educators to use to help them create surveys, develop assessments, adjust content and presentation of text, create concept maps and organizers, and much more. Regional Technology in Education Consortium This site offers many ideas on how teachers can implement assistive technologies (AT) to help meet students’ needs. Scholastic This site also gives students choices to learn based on their learning style. Here students can play games, listen to stories, create writing pieces, animate, and watch videos. I particularly enjoy the interactive virtual fieldtrips this site provides. I believe this is a great way to differentiate instruction for a wide variety of students. These are wonderful choices for all tactile, kinesthetic, audio and visual learners.
 * __Week Five: Differentiation Resources by Readiness, Interest, and Learning Style __**
 * Readiness Resources **
 * http://ipods4classrooms.wikispaces.com/Carolina+TESOL
 * Interest Resources **
 * [|http://www.discoveryeducation.com]
 * Learning Style Resources **
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I completed a VoiceThread to present UDL. Attached is the link the that voicethread. Please comment on what you liked or disliked about the presentation.
 * __ Week Four: UDL Presentation __**

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This is a teacher blog which highlights a wonderful project which incorporates UDL principles.
 * __ Week Three: Additonal Resources for UDL __**


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This site provided some good resources as well as a wiki which includes UDL concepts. It centers around technology and UDL. Use this as a tool kit.


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This was a useful survey to determine personality. I took the test and found it to accurate in that I am creative, practical and structured. I also used many of the questions in the survey to create my own interest survey. This was also a good survey that had direct questions about students’ interests. This site was useful in both the way it was set up in that answers A were for auditory, B for visual, and C for kinesthetic. I wound up using the same type of system. The questions were also helpful; I simply tailored them to be more specific to my fourth grade students. This source also provided me with some wonderful sample questions I could use in my own teacher created survey. This teacher created page gave some simple questions parents could use to question their child to decide which intelligence their child fits best in. It was easy to follow and I used many of the questions in my own survey. This is a great site that covers surveys on interest, learning styles, multiple intelligences and much more. It contains a list of word documents or PDF files to download all free of cost. Great for elementary grade level students! Many are just print and use.
 * __ Week Two: Student Data Inventory Resources __**
 * Interest Survey **
 * [|http://www.driveofyourlife.org]
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 * Learning Styles Survey **
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 * Multiple Intelligences Survey **
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 * Learning Profile Inventory **
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