Resources

UDL Resources:
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 * Great list of resources from the Universal Design for Learning Taskforce**

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 * Great PowerPoint Presentation on UDL (in PDF format)**

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 * Legislation related to education and UDL**

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 * National Universal Design for Learning Taskforce-main page**

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 * Policy brief from the National Education Association, "Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Making learning accessible and engaging for all students"**

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 * National Center on Universal Design for Learning**

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 * Guide for a One-day Workshop - the UDL way (from Cast.org)**

**Web 2.0 Tools**
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 * Incredible list of Web 2.0 tools** (recommended on the udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com page)

http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Free+text+to+speech
 * Free text-to-speech tools (for Firefox, PowerPoint, etc)**

http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/
 * The above link comes from the great wiki: "Free Technology Toolkit for UDL in All Classrooms"**

Also from that same wiki: http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Multimedia+and+digital+storytelling
 * Multimedia and Digital Storytelling Tools**

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 * Goal Setting Worksheet**


 * Writing Fun**
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 * Webspiration**
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 * Virtual Manipulatives**


 * Storybird**
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 * Crayon: Create your own newspaper**

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 * Book Adventure: Free reading motivation tool for K-8**

[|http://www.flashcardmachine.com]
 * Free online flashcards**

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 * National Library of Virtual Manipulatives**

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 * Read Please: Free Text to Speech Software**

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 * Talking Calculator**

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 * UDL Editions of Books**


 * Read Think Write: Great interactive student tools**
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 * Text to Movie Tool**
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1. [|Kidblog] - Great way for schools to have kids blog. No student email is required and everything is monitored before being posted online. 2. [|Sweet Search] - Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators. 3. [|Cacoo] - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration. 4. [|21 Classes] - Get students blogging in a safe and secure environment. 5. [|Story Jumper] -Excellent site for digital storytelling, with many educational resources for teachers. 6. [|Middlespot] - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. 7. [|Education Eye] - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine. 8. [|Kizoa] - Great site for creating animated slide shows with lots of different content to choose from. 9. [|Drag on Tape] - Very user-friendly site that uses a drag-n-drop interface to edit and mix video. 10. [|Shwup] - Great site for making collaborative slide shows. 11. [|PreZentit] - Very similar to Shwup, a nice looking site for making collaborative slide shows. 12. [|Quintura for Kids] - A search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud where results can be embedded into a site. 13. [|TodaysMeet] - Create a real-time, private, back channel chat that brings in tweets from Twitter. 14. [|MeMoov] - Very user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voice for narration. 15. [|Wordia] - Brings words to life through the use of video. 16. [|Encyclomedia] - Video encyclopedia where results can be embedded into a site. 17. [|Zooburst] - Great site for for digital storytelling, where a user can make an online 3D pop-up book. 18. [|Jay Cut] - Similar to iMovie that allows users to edit or create a video. 19. [|Splashup] - Looks like Photoshop and is a great way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. 20. [|Comic Master] - Fun site for digital storytelling that has a drag-n-drop interface. 21. [|Knowcase] - Create collaborative outlines with this easy-to-use site. 22. [|Cloud Canvas] - Great site for photo editing and drawing or painting, similar to Splashup. 23. [|Magic Studio] - Great multi-media site for uploading photos,documents or video and then editing them. 24. [|Googlios] - A way for students to create digital portfolios online using Google Tools. 25. [|We are Teachers] - Social network for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.
 * Top 25 Websites for 2010 by David Kapular from** []

Online Spelling Practice: Games, Tests, Reading [|http://spellingcity.com]

Online Database of Audio Stories [|http://storynory.com]

100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner [] Online Resource Tools for Students: Broken down by subject []