Scott's+Differentiating+Instruction+in+Your+Classroom+Links

Below are some links to tools I found as I was completing my Differentiating Instruction in Your Classroom Application:

Comic creating website: [] Microsoft Moviemaker software: []

Microsoft Excel: []

Movie making website: [|www.xtranormal.com] Concept Map making website: []

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I really liked your links and think they would benefit many students in your classroom, as well as mine. I thought that the Microsoft Excel resource that scaffolds the creation of making a timeline would be very helpful in my room. I can see myself using this in social studies so that students can demonstate understanding of our most recent unit on the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and then the Constitution. I also really liked the comic creating website that you added. I could use this in Language Arts as students practice summerizing. What a fun, non-traditional way to write a book report or essay. =====

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Which however, would you include under the elements of readiness, interest, and learning profile. remember our application is to find a technology strategy, tool, or resource under each element. We were then to include t itle of resource, summary, description of 2 ways resource can be implemented in classroom,and description of how resource is supported by the concepts of UDL and DI. =====

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the links to the comic creating website and the xtranormal movie making website. Both resources are great avenues for differentiating how students demonstrate their understanding of content in a fun and engaging way. I have never seen these resources before and am excited to try these in the future with my students.

Jeannine Lowe

Hi Scott, Thanks for sharing your comic creating website. This website will go very well with our second grade lesson on using dialogue within our stories. This techology integration provides a way for students to express their learing and understanding of dialogue and quotation marks in multiple ways., which supports the universal design for learning principle. Providing students with the option to create a comic with dialogue, as opposed to simply writing a story, will also help to make learning more meaningful and engaging for young learners.

Thanks, Jewel Johnson