Maureen Lafleche's List: UDL and Web2.0 Videos

Presentation on the benefits and reasons why we should let our students blog. Check out my edublog at: http://rachelboyd.blogspot.com for info and links to my class blogs. Hope you find it useful. Music is "English Channel" from freeplaymusic.com

This video was created as an introduction for a presentation at PETE&C and uploaded to YouTube in order to embed as part of the presentation. The session was designed to show teachers how to connect their classrooms to the world of information. Visit http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com for the conference notes, participate in the conversation or add your ideas. I am thankful to have TeacherTube as a forum that is unblocked to share. by Khokanson

What would allowing learners to be creative in the way they culminate learning have on their motivation? by Kevin

Transferring web2.0 ideas to everyday life by Susan Tsairi

Video that shows teacher attitude and not skill level is a barrier to using technology with students. Three different voices were presented: teacher, parent and student. The students articulated well about how they are using blogs and wikis to write and receive feedback. Interview from teacher named Kathy in Surrey.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types… Feb 2006

Self directed project based learning - The Mummified Chicken, Mutant Frogs, And Rockets to the Moon (30:08)

Video by Barbara - Classroom 1.0 to 2.0....where would you want to be?

Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?

This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.

A group of educators go over what a wiki actually is. They cover how PBwiki can help students and teachers collaborate online. Get your free wiki at: http://www.pbwiki.com

Allana K's classroom in Nelson, NZ. Her school bought some Apple computers and used them for Math and Language Arts. She then started to blog....then she got her students to blog and each week she has a blog monitor...she then started to use web2.0 tools, del.icio.us account, site counter, Blogmeister and then started to do some podcasting.

I attended a BLC06 conference last summer and keynote Marco Torres, was a keynote. In one of his smaller sessions he showed a great movie clipped and asked the audience to promote and share it. Movie: Digital Students @ Analog Schools Students today are native to technology and schools seem to be stuck in the past. They are not accommodating to todays digital learners. Here is a video where students speak out on what it means to be a digital student at a analog school. by marottam

Lucy wants to learn better English so that she can teach her and Ricky's baby. She gets Ricky to read a book and that has the 'ough' throughout it...however, the ough sound varies from word to word i.e., bough, cough, rough, brought etc....this is a perfect example of why we should be using text to speech

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video ...human creativity there is a lot of it but what are we doing about it

Medievel Helpdesk - Introducing the book - play on book versus computer...makes fun of the book...very funny

series of videos that show how to use technology with special needs

Animal School Video by RaisingSmallSouls.com was reproduced from "Preparing our Children for Success" by R. Greenwald. It cleverly demonstrates different types of learners using animals. The video is a little over six minutes long.

Ability Net's channel on YouTube organized playlist of videos on a variety of accessibility topics i.e., AAC, accessibility, e-books, mobile phones etc.

"DO-IT maintains an extensive collection of publications and video presentations, concerning information technology and universal design, including the following. Most video presentations are freely available on the website and also for sale in DVD format. Permission is granted to reproduce DO-IT materials in whole or in part as long as the source is acknowledged."

“Reaching Every Student in the
Digital Age: A Showcase of Universal Design for
Learning” Keynote Speaker David Rose,
Ed.D - Founder and Chief Education
Officer -Chief Scientist, Cognition and
Learning - Center for Applied Special
Technology (CAST) - view the presentation by clicking on the links




October 24, 2008


Marlborough Elementary School, Burnaby

Co-sponsored by LATA/SET BC/Burnaby School
District