Jeannine's+Differentiation+Instruction+Resources

__**Readiness **__

**Title of Resource:** Vocabulary Can Be Fun! **Resource Link:** http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ **Summary:** This is an educational game website that will help students build vocabulary skills. **Description of Implementation:** I would implement this tool with my keyboarding students to motivate them into building on their current vocabulary skills and to prepare them for Plan and ACT testing. This resource would also be beneficial for English Language Learners. There are multiple game formats to making learning a fun way to practice and reinforce vocabulary skills. Students can select their appropriate level of readiness (primary, intermediate, middle school, or high school). **How resource is supported by concepts learned:** This resource supports the recognition, strategic, and affective principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Flexible and multiple game formats of presenting information, expressing information, and engagement are provided as a way to meet students’ needs. Differentiated Instruction is supported by the multiple avenues students can choose to build vocabulary skills.

**Title of Resource:** uncw.edu/EdGames **Resource Link:** http://people.uncw.edu/ ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html **Summary:** This site has many variations of game templates that can be downloaded and used by teachers in the classroom. **Description of Implementation:** I could use these game templates by inputting my content as a review activity to reinforce concepts. In addition, students could download the game templates and create their own review questions that can be accessed at their home. **How resource is supported by concepts learned:** This resource supports the recognition, strategic, and affective principles of UDL. Teacher have flexibility in choosing the game format that best suits their students needs to keep students engaged as well as providing multiple opportunities to reinforce concepts. Differentiation is supported through the multiple game choices and questions developed can be adjusted to challenge students.

**Title of Resource:** Freerice.com **Resource Link:** @http://www.freerice.com/ **Summary:** This is an educational game website that will help students build vocabulary skills. When students respond with a correct answer, grains of rice are donated to feed hungry people in the world. **Description of Implementation:** I could use this resource in my keyboarding classes to provide another avenue for students to review and reinforce cross-curriculum content (Art, Chemistry, Language Learning, Math, English, and Geography). This resource would also help students in preparing for the Plan and ACT tests. This would be a great bell ringer activity for students while the teacher is doing administrative task until class is ready to begin. **How resource is supported by concepts learned:** This resource supports all three principles (recognition, strategic, and affective) of UDL as well as differentiation. Students have the flexibility of choosing a subject, and then clicking on the correct answer to questions provided usually in multiple choice formats.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource:** ThinkPort <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Resource Link:** http://www.thinkport.org/Classroom/trips.tp <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Summary:** This is a website devoted to providing rich, interactive multimedia content through formats such as games, timelines, and WebQuest. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Description of Implementation:** I would use this resource to allow students the freedom of choosing a WebQuest they are interested in to explore a topic more in-depth. This resource would be excellent when students have to choose their own topics to research. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**How resource is supported by concepts learned:** Thinkport supports the Universal Design of Learning affective network principle because students are allowed choices of choosing a WebQuest that appeals to them. Differentiated Instruction is supported because it gives students other avenues for learning and reinforcing content through the ability to research information based upon guiding questions as well as built-in games.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource**: How stuff works. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Resource Link:** www.howstuffworks.com <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Summary:** This resource provides various tools such as games, videos, podcasts, quizzes, and blogs that teachers and students use in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Description of Implementation:** I would use this resource with my classes as a way to engage students’ interest when beginning a new lesson. Students could also use this resource to find out more about a topic when they are required to conduct research. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **How resource is supported by concepts learned:** This resource supports the recognition, strategic, and affective principles of UDL. Engaging video content can engage and activate students’ affective network. In addition, recognition and strategic networks are activated through multiple formats of finding information best suited for student needs.


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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource:** Text 2 MindMap <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Resource Link:** http://www.text2mindmap.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Summary:** This resource will take a structured list of words or sentences and create a mind map for interpretation. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Description of Implementation:** I could use this resource in all of my computer/business classes to support students in their writing skills. Students could create a graphic organizer as a prelude to writing paragraphs for writing prompts. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**How resource is supported by concepts learned:**This resource supports the strategic and affective principles of Universal Design for Learning. Creating a mind map provides students with flexible methods of expression and an engaging way to interact with content.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource:** Technology Tutorials <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Description of Implementation:** I could use this resource in all of my computer/business classes to further support students in their technology skills when teaching a lesson.
 * Resource Link:** http://www. internet4classrooms.com/on- line.htm
 * Summary:** This resource provides various tutorials on different software applications.
 * How resource is supported by concepts learned:** This resource supports the recognition, strategic, and affective principles of UDL and DI by providing students another avenue to support learning different software programs at their own pace.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Other Great Resources **__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource:** Dare to Differentiate Blog <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Resource Link:** http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**﻿Summary:** This resource is actually a blog that containing links to materials and strategies for differentiating a classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**﻿Description of Implementation:** This blog site provides information about how to implement flexibility grouping, tiered assignments, among others that I could use in my classroom. I particularly liked the Question Brainstormer template as a tool to help my students focus when conducting research.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How resource is supported by concepts learned: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">All of the resources found in this blog supports UDL and DI because each resource provides a unique way to differentiate instruction for all students. In addition, there are links that takes teachers to articles for further reading about UDL and DI in the classroom.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Title of Resource:** Technology Tools for Differentiation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Summary:** This is a blog maintained by Kent ISD that has great resources for differentiating content in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Description of Implementation:** I could use the various tools such as writing tools and alternative text to support all students needs through a variety of strategies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**How resource is supported by concept learned:** Multiple resources available to support UDL and DI to improve student engagement as well as activating all three brain networks (recognition, strategic, and affective).
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Jeannine, I like your Text 2 MindMap resource. I checked this site out and it looks pretty cool. I use a similiar tool called Inspiration. The porblem with Inspriation is that it is very expensive for licenses. Therefore I want to use this tool instead. I really want to use it to do notes or processing of the class readings. Being able to take concepts from the readings cna process them visually is a great tool for education.

Luke

Jeannine, I like the vocabulary games page. I tried a few and I'm sure my elementary general music classes would enjoy them. What I'm trying to figure out now is if I can modify the program to use new vocabulary words that I want to cover. We'll see! Thanks again, Dustin

Hi Jeannine, Thank you for your links I have never used any of them. I could see myself using the Thinkport link for topic I cover in my Social Studies classes. i have never used a webquest before and always have wanted to incorporate them in my class. Thank you for the link. Thanks, Scott