Teaching What Works!: April 2008

Universal design is using technology to make content accessible to all students using their strengths and how they learn best. Universal design eliminates the irrelevant constructs of a lesson or possible "road blocks" to learning. The Number 1 site for more information on this topic is http://www.cast.org/ however, here are a few others!

Curriculum-Based Measurement
http://www.aimsweb.com/
A commercial website for CBM. It is very similar to DIBELS, but includes more academic areas.

http://www.precisionteachingresource.net/
This site provides instruction, tools, and performance standards for improving academic and social behaviors using an instructional measurement practice called Precision Teaching.

http://www.studentprogress.org/
This site is sponsored by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. Provides information on monitoring progress.

http://www.progressmonitoring.net/
University of Minnesota sponsored website for the Research Institute on Progress Monitoring.

Note-taking

Diigo .com Highlight and put sticky notes on websites. Access your highlighting from any computer! http ://www .eleven21.com/notetaker / Print off sheets to take notes on for class.

Study Skills

http://quizlet.com/
Make flashcards to help you study.

Survey Creator
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Create your own survey and see the data on this free website.

Mathematics
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html
Find clips from movies dealing with math.

Reading Fluency
http://librivox.org/
Listen to books online for free.

http://www.starfall.com/
Read easy reader books online. Allows readers to click on words they don’t know. There are also games.

http://ebooks.mlcnet.org/B5A65E3D-87A6-4085-B26F-D104244F5DC5/10/230/en/Default.htm
Free online audio books for individuals to check out through their public library account for two weeks. Great for students to have a hard copy of a book along with an audio copy to follow along with!

Writing
http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?lang=uk
Add subtitles to a Bollywood video. Great for teaching "voice" in the 6 Traits.

http://easybib.com/
Automatic citation maker.

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Write a story and have it look like a newspaper clipping!

http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
Add words to a photograph that you find captivating.

Social Studies
http://www.capzles.com/
Create virtual time capsule slideshows set to music.

Word Processing

http ://www .buzzword.com/#o

Internet-based word processing. Documents are saved online in your account.

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

Convert Word Files to PDF and have them emailed to you.

Communication/Networking

http ://twitter.com/

Let friends and family know what you are up to.

http ://www .facebook .com/home.php