Universal Course Design Applied to Secondary Education• The Learning Environments (buildings,

classrooms)

• Educational Tools Used (documents, websites)

• Learning and Instructional Materials (courses, activities, assignments, assessments)

UDL and the Learning Environment

• Classroom Comfort – Furniture, tables, chairs, space, AV

• Audio – ability to hear the instructor

• Visual – ability to see the information

• Physical – ability to get to the classroom

• Fatigue and time of day and attention span

• Temperature and Lighting

• E-Learning Environment

Universal Design Principles forCurriculum, Instruction, Environment and

Assessment

1. Present information in multiple ways

• Visual

• Auditory

• tactile

What is your students Learning Style

• Garner’s Multiple Intellegence Test

• http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/mi_test.html

• http://lth3.k12.il.us/rhampton/mi/mi.html

Pocketalker Pro with EAR008 Wide Range Earphone by

Williams Sound

705iR: Portable Infrared Audio System

REDCAT by Lightspeed

Noise Canceling Strategies

• Reducing Fan Noise

• Reducing Table Noise distractions

• Noise cancelling headset

QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling®

headphones

Text to Speech

• http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/

• http://www.naturalreaders.com/?gclid=CPe1r7fwj58CFaM45QodyUsoLw

• http://www.dkszone.net/2009/10/best-free-text-to-speech-online.html

Taping of Lectures

• Camptasia

• Flip Video

• Free podcasts from ITUNES

• Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/

ITunes U Mobile Learning

Once your classroom presentations and lectures have been captured and published, students can download them from iTunes. Then they can

transfer them to iPod or iPhone and take it all with them.

• http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

Livescribe Pen

• http://www.livescribe.com/

2. Use multiple ways for students to learn

3.Use multiple way to demonstrate competencies

Curriculum, Instruction, Environment and Assessment

Writing Solutions

• Ginger http://www.gingersoftware.com/

Presenting Visual Information

YouTube Clips

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8904666123687875074&q=Macarena&hl=en

• Passive Range of Motion of a Baby

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3894087728547115142&q=Shoulder+Movement

 

• Rotator cuff repair

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2399321985158264326&q=Shoulder+Movement

Animation + Visual + Auditory

Hands On

• Switch Making Demo

Elmo Portable Presenter

Point 2 View USB Camera

Homemade Document Camera

Comfort

• Head and Neck – Book or document Holder

• Feet – foot rests

• Arm – arm rests

• Butt - cushions

Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device

Adaptation to Kindle

Touch screen computers

Nanovision Mimo 2G

SMART Board 685ix interactive whiteboard system

Touch Recognition

Environment

• Tennis Balls

• Blowers

• Glare

• External Speakers

• Temperature

• Food

Color

• Black Letter on Light Yellow, Blue or White Background

• San Serif font

• Use less words

• Don’t combine words with pictures

• Black Letter on Light Yellow, Blue or White Background

• San Serif font

• Use less words

• Don’t combine words with pictures

• Black Letter on Light Yellow, Blue or White Background

• San Serif font

• Use less words

• Don’t combine words with pictures

• Black Letter on Light Yellow, Blue or White Background

• San Serif font

• Use less words

• Don’t combine words with pictures

• Black Letter on Light Yellow, Blue or White Background

• San Serif font

• Use less words

• Don’t combine words with pictures

Keyboard Short Cuts

• B key

• Alt Tab

• Triple click

• Ctrl C

• Ctrl V

• Right Click over picture (Fair Use Provision)

Drawing on Power Point

• Right Click + o f

• Right Click + o e (to erase)

Recording

• Disposable Video

• Cameras

• Tape Recorder

• Computer capture

• Scanning Documents

• Cuing - Tapping

• Re-auditorzation

Other Tools Instructors Should Use

• Elmo

• ACDSee

• Camera with video and macros

• Dictaphone and Dragon Naturally Speaking

• Scanner

• Webcam

Captures your board writing into the computer

• Convert any Whiteboard to an Electronic One!! Using Mimio

Homemade Smartboard

Portable Mini Speakers for iPhone Driod iPod MP3

USB BlueTooth Head Set

Ipod Nano now shoots video

3Generation I POD Touch 32g

Genius Recommendations for Apps

Say and Play

PURE Digital Flip Ultra Camcorder