Resources+and+Articles

Importance of UDL in Education:
Letter from Arne Duncan to Congress on UDL

Links to RTC UDL Course Resources:
RTC Course Wiki- George Zeleznik RTC Course Blog- George Zeleznik

Articles:
===Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction; BY Matt Ritchel; Published: November 21, 2010, New York Times===

Willing to be disturbed; BY Margaret Wheatley
The Future is in the Margins: The Role of Technology and Disability in Educational Reform; BY Davis Rose and Anne Meyer Universal Design for Learning: Reaching All Students with Digital Media; BY David W. Cochran (Creative Educator: Fall 2008) Keeping Your Head Above Water in a Sea of Information; Tammy's Tech Tips Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants; BY Mark Prensky

National Center on Universal Design for Learning: Implentation Examples, TONS of Online Resources
[|Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction]; RTEC Exchange UDL Technology Toolkit; http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/ Tammy's Tech Tips; Sign up on mailing list to receive weekly emails. ([]) Closing the Gap (see closingthegap.com) Special Education Technology Practice; magazine (see setp.net) Edutopia

Searching for Materials at Multiple Challenge Levels
Some hints on where to start: 42explore; lesson plans by subject; provide websites and classroom activities Internet4Classrooms; Grade level help in using the internet effectively; online tutorials; ideas for technology uses in the classroom. Kids Click; Web Search created for kids by librarians

Examples of Tiered Instructional Materials: Ben's Guide to US Govt for Kids The Brain from Top to Bottom Windows to the Universe Renzulli Learning

Reading Tools: (Text-to-Speech programs and software)
Ghost Reader; using human-sound voices to read your text aloud and convert to audio files; costs $39.95 Natural Readers Can read text documents, convert to MP3 files for car or ipod Read Please; text-to-speech program for Windows Text Aloud; text-to-speech software VozMe ; instant conversion of text into MP3 Spoken Text; text-to-speech; converts to audio files

Organizational Tools for Students:
BackPack Memo to Me Remember the Milk Ta-da Lists Zoho Notebook