Plainfield: Cohort 4: Day 2
Plainfield School District Tagged Plaindfield, UDL November 17th, 2008We’ve spent a lot of time working on our Toolkit today. You’ve reviewed a handful of tools that you may or may not want to use in your classroom.
Please, before you leave, do one of the following:
1. Leave a comment here discussing which tool was your favorite, why and how specifically you see using it with your class.
2. Visit Ira Socol’s blog and read his post from April 9 called Not Getting to Universal Design. Please leave Ira a comment on his blog.
3. Visit Heather’s Delicious links and/or Lisa’s Delicious links and choose another tool tagged “UDL”. Leave a comment here letting us know which tool you selected. Be prepared to demonstrate the tool the next time we meet as a group.
We hope the theories behind Universal Design for Learning are all coming together for you and that you are excited to implement the strategies in your classrooms. You can find a digital copy of today’s presentation at Slideshare.net.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I can see using the SKRBL and BUBBL once I am comfortable using these tools.
BUBBL can be used collaboratively which can help many of the students who don’t have enough ideas to brainstorm, so they can have the help of other students.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:47 am
The tool I found most useful is delicious.com. I can use this website as a school social worker to log career development websites as well as use it for one stop shoping for community resources.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:48 am
My favorite tool is Bubbl.us. I can see using bubbl.us when I am working with classes to encourage prewriting for any type of written work that the students use.
Once the students learn the format I believe they will be more encouraged to create a word web for their essays. With the low motivation I encounter in my classroom I believe adding this tool will create an incentive to do the work. Its ability to network would allow multiple students to work together on a web as well.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I see lots of possibilities for useful applications for both SKRBL and BUBBL but need to “play” with them for a while before implementing in my classroom.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I really enjoyed the bubbl.us website. Under the speech power point, all of the bullets (except) Natural sounding, are exactly what I do as an conductor of my concert band.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am
My favorite tool for the day is Bubbl. I often use webbing in my classroom, but sometimes find I don’t have enough room or that the chart paper just looks sloppy. This web application allows for flexibility as we work. I also like the idea of being able to print copies to give to students after a brainstorming session.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I found bubbl.us to be a very useful tool in that brainstorming and outlining are essentail for essay writing and information retaining. I love using graphic organizers to enhance the content students are learning. This website will allow will allow students to create their own graphic organizers instead of utilizing the teacher-made organizer that I type up.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
My favorite tool for today is the bubbl.us. I can see myself using the one the most (besides delicious-of course). It would be helpful for my students to be able to type thier prewriting instead of having to write it all the time.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I really liked the website delicious because I can see students using some of the websites.However, there were limited websites available for the subject I teach Spanish.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
My favorite tool for today is Delicious. I can take my students to the library and focus their research to specific sites. It would help me lead them in the right direction without having to baby them.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I see lots of possibilities for useful applications for both SKRBL and BUBBLE.com I also am very excited about bookmarking with delious. I intend on using all three tools often. THANKS HEATHER!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
All of the toolkits we learned today are excellent. My favorite one was http://www.delicious.com. As a math teacher, I am always looking for sites to supplement and enrich instruction. This tool will help me so I won’t have to remember 1000 websites. Also my students can access this informatino which is great! http://www.skrbl.com will also be useful for taking notes for the entire class. This will be an excellent way to teach students what are the key points in a discussion and how to short-hand write.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Today’s workshop was awesome as it had all the info of the cool toolkits that can be used as an motivated instructional tool and make the class interesting and user friendly.
Hajira
November 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
My favorite tool today was BUBBL.US because it can be use to create many links which is flexivable for many class lessons so students can brainstorm their own assignments.
It is a perfect tool to avoid a lot of extra material.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I enjoyed all of the tools. Bubbl.us will make my web making much easier. Skrbl will work great for student presentations. Delicious.com is a great way to organize my Social studies links. Thank you so much for the ideas!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
The tools presented in the UDL PD workshop were quite useful. However, as always, not all schools indistrict have access to the technology to implement the skills and techniques being learned in the workshop. The social bookmarking site delicious is a great tool for teachers and students alike.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I see helpful usages for both Bubbl and Skrbl.com. I cant wait take back to my school!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I thought the tools that we were introduced to can be helpful to many teachers. I however, feel as though only http://www.deliscious.com would be helpful to my students. Also http://www.skrbl.com can be a useful tool to teach students to take notes.
November 21st, 2008 at 8:50 am
Naumann,
I’m wondering if you have the students use Bubbl and how that goes. Do they have problems, and what are they? Does it improve their output?
Jess Menon
November 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
I agree with Mr. Naumann. I actually used bubbl to group data for a survey I’ve been compiling. I was able to save a lot of paper as well as share the information with multiple people from home!
November 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Larry I think that what you’re doing is amazing, I would like to try something to help my high school math students.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Is very important to find several ways to engage our students into our daily lesson activities. Keep in touch.
Cesar-
December 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
I found the American Rhetoric website to be the most engaging because it used mutiple types of media at one time and students can listen to speeches individually. I woul use this tool to develop social emotional learning skills with my students.