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EDLD 5364 Teaching with Technology Weekly Reflections

__**Book Builder Reflection**__ I found creating the electronic book to be very exciting, once I had settled upon a topic. The Book Builder website is very easy to navigate and the instructions for adding the tutors and text to your book easy to understand and follow. I allowed my children to help me with choosing the pictures, font style, and choice of the tutors to use. They enjoyed the process as well. I can see endless possibilities for using this in the classroom. The e-book is able to meet the needs of every learner by incorporating, text, pictures, text-to-speech, tutors, and the student response section. This would be a great activity for students to use to create books of their own. They could use their books to teach fellow students about classroom concepts and illustrate what they have learned at the same time. I will definitely use this resource again. Red Blood Cells E-Book Link

__**UDL Lesson Reflection**__ In reading Chapter 6 of Rose and Meyer’s book //Teaching// //every student in the digital age:// // Universal design // //for learning,// I realized that my teaching practices were varied, but not to the extent that they could be. As stated by the authors, “Successful learning experiences challenge and support each learner appropriately and adjust as the learner changes over time” (Rose & Meyer, 2002). Before watching the video segments in week two about theses very principles, I had never heard of the three brain networks. I knew that each student learns in a different way, but never had that information formalized and put together in the way that Rose and Meyer do in their book. The methods that they give for addressing the different brain networks will be very useful to me in the future. However, even after reading all of the examples I found that creating my lesson using the UDL lesson template this week was stressful for me. The lesson plans I currently use are very simple and to the point. I incorporate the different parts of the UDL lesson template in my lessons, but I do not write them out. I found that having to expand on what I actually use was more difficult than I expected. When I teach I use the majority of the UDL methods, but they are not written out in any type of format. I am viewing this process from the standpoint of the old adage, “no pain – no gain”. Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). //Teaching every student in the digital age:// // Universal design ////for learning.// Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology Web site. Chapter 6. Retrieved on October 5, 2009, from @http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/

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