Blog Post #7

Digital Book


A digital book also known as a e-book or e-texts-books, are a form of technology based education reform. They are intended to serve text to the class

Who benefits?

The digital books offer students, teachers and schools an additional tool of instructions that can support and enhance the learning process. It is a great for digital representation in the classroom for any form of lesson and works for all students.

How to use in the classroom?

They can be used as substitutes for not having enough hard copy textbooks/books in title one schools or any school with out the resource of hard copies. They can used to view textual information during classroom sessions. Some students with disabilities, benefit from being able to listen to digital books rather than reading it. Especially with students of visual impairments. It can also benefit auditory learners.

These are some places to create your own digital book in the classroom.

https://www.lulu.com/create?gclid=Cj0KCQiA5NPjBRDDARIsAM9X1GJ24hCCcm5mtEj0Z7-B4YQx8r896fWj2Q2bPjgTeuK5YX4sOYUWgFkaAi1KEALw_wcB
http://fliphtml5.com/html5-flipbook/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA5NPjBRDDARIsAM9X1GL6Ex3NwWdxIiic4e_sS0bJhQq6U7m1RxYrH9dCW7WwgPgnJmyC6rYaAu8dEALw_wcB

Here is a video guide of how to do a digital text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feVbiXhJHC8


Sources
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812026390

Blog Post #6 Sensory Impairments

Tools for Students with sensory impairments.

This is a guide for teachers who can use different tools for students with sensory impairments.

Students who have a low vision impairment can use a simple tool called a pocket magnifier it allows students to magnify reading material to assist them in the reading process.  You can find these at a local Walmart for around six dollars.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsL0dyw84A

Students who have hearing impairments can use a tool that all schools with students with disability should have in place called Automatic Speech Recognition. It allows to speaker to wear a headset microphone that is connected to a computer, the AST program recognize his/her voice and translate the spoken message into text that is displayed on to a screen monitor. This helps you as a teacher easily understand your children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67z7PTGRi8

Blog Post #5 Teacher Apps

Choosing The Right App for your Students 

When teachers are choosing an app for increased learning the app needs to align with the curriculum goals and standards of the school district. It also needs to target the content for the grade level and the learning outcomes for students with and without a disability.

7 steps to follow when choosing an app to use with your students

Identify learning Objectives

Focus of the grade level and what outcome you want your students to have with the app

Select Targeted Apps

Look at apps that other teachers may have used, read reviews and focus at topic at hand, you’re not going to pick a math app for reading.

Select Standards that align with the app

Make sure they are appropriate to state standards

Identify Limitations and Essential features   

Open the app and use ensure it will be open to all your students if not align to those students with disabilities

Choosing the App

Check out reviews and ensure the app does not have extra ads within the app as well.

Identify Learning needs for students with disabilities

Make sure it meets students IEP goals and allow for other options if the app is no combatable to your students

App Setup on an IPad or Computer

Ensure the app works on school provided technology

Reference

Article: Choosing IPad Apps with A purpose by Selma Powell 

Choosing iPad Apps With a

Purpose

Aligning Skills and Standards

Selma Powell

at COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (CEC) on January 4, 2015

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Choosing iPad Apps With a

Purpose

Aligning Skills and Standards

Selma Powell

at COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (CEC) on January 4, 2015

tcx.sagepub.com

Downloaded from

Choosing iPad Apps With a

Purpose

Aligning Skills and Standards

Selma Powell

at COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (CEC) on January 4, 2015

tcx.sagepub.com

Downloaded from

Choosing iPad Apps With a

Purpose

Aligning Skills and Standards

Selma Powell

at COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (CEC) on January 4, 2015

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Blog Post #4 UDL Lesson Plan

UDL Lesson Plans

What makes the UDL lesson plan different?

 A UDL lesson plan is different than a normal lesson plan because it considers learner strengths and needs and preferences and brainstorms solutions from the start. While other lesson plans vary on accommodating all these aspects into the learning process.

How do you determine the lesson assessment?

 To determine lesson assessment, you can use teacher checklist/rubric to express how students are performing through oral/ written explanation, demonstration and drawing. Student can have learning barriers from academic, physical or sensory and social and emotional difficulties that prevent the learning process. Prepare for students with disability like a hearing impairment. You can add caption to the video being streamed to help adjust to that student. Plan for students who may be disruptive in the classrooms. By having a secondary choice of the assessment available to maintain classroom management. Another can be issue of back ground and having mini- lesson to help the lack of knowledge they are missing through pictures, symbols, and definitions that can be added to charts/word cards to help the student access what other students may already be ahead of.

Resources for UDL Lesson Planning

Resources for UDL can be found across the board. There are CDs with digital text and some come in different languages. Some publishers now include leveled readings/texts on ideas for making extensions and remediating specific skills included in the text. Websites for interactive games and other inclusion can always be found at the click of a button.
This was a great video about UDL resources
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=resources+for+udl&&view=detail&mid=D8AAC61C78D70327F7EAD8AAC61C78D70327F7EA&&FORM=VRDGAR


Site I used for my information
http://mast.ecu.edu/modules/udl_elp/