A slideshow for a workshop of teachers in Malden, MA. AIM: Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling the Content of Our Curriculum

1. Accessible Instructional Materials: Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling the Content of Our Curriculum Cynthia Curry August 26, 2009

2. Outcome Each participant will learn at least one new way to make an existing curriculum more accessible.

3. Where We Can Go! Universal Design for Learning (UDL)‏ Digital Text Public Domain Online Libraries Text-to-Speech Software Text-to-Audio Conversion Bookshare Voice Recording Image Searches on the Web

4. Universal Design in Learning Environments

5. Improve Best Practice

6. Classroom Implementation With funding from the Davis Family Foundation Project Goals: Stimulate an interest among all students in pursuing STEM-related disciplines Create a science classroom model of universal design

7. Steps to UDL in a Science Classroom Evaluated the curriculum and laboratory experiences Introduced instructional and learning technologies Identified accessible instructional materials and video

8. Curriculum and Lab Evaluation What will students know and be able to do? What will be the evidence of student learning? What are the corresponding means of expression? How can we diversify and vary these means?

9. Teaching & Learning Technologies

10. Accessible Instructional Materials and Video

11. Technology Alone: No Elixir Technology Effective Teaching Strategies Successful teaching and learning experiences TPCK

13. Start with digital text.

15. What is “digital text?” .odt (Open Office Text Document)‏ .doc (Microsoft Word Document)‏ .txt (Plain Text)‏ .rtf (Rich Text Format)‏ .html (Hypertext Markup Language)‏ .xml (Extensible Markup Language)‏ email Any text that you can create and edit.

16. Digital Text vs Image of Text Image captured at the International Children's Digital Library ( The Blue Sky by Andrea Petrlik Huseinovic) www.icdl.org

18. Malleable Size Font Style Malleable Color/Contrast