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=**Universal Design for Learning Online Investigations:** = (Introduced in Class and supplemented with Independent online investigations)

PDF of Class UDL Presentation: media type="custom" key="27737283"

Students will work on these investigations to learn about Universal Design for Learning and Read/Write Web through case studies, presentations, demonstrations, video models and research-to-practice resources.

1. Alone or in small groups: Visit and interact with attention, reading and writing sections of: []

2. Explore the following website: Mindset

3. Explore the basics of Universal Design for Learning []

View these videos Under More Videos:
 * UDL Principles and Practice
 * The UDL Guidelines
 * Grade 5 Language Arts
 * Revised Research
 * ...feel free to watch others!

4. Explore the resources available here: []

5. Visit and actively interact with the Karen Janowski presentation that you find here: []

6. Visit and interact with the resources here: http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/

7. Answer Discussion prompt in Edmodo: After you complete these investigations in class and independently, go to the Edmodo discussion group and post your thoughts to this prompt:
 * What does UDL mean to you? What key ideas have you gleaned from your readings, web site investigations and video models? In what ways might the role of the teacher change when using some of the tools you explored?