Week+Three

I thought the premise of UDL was very intriguing. I had never heard of it. I liked the descriptions of the three brain networks Gathering facts. How we identify and categorize what we see, hear, and read. Identifying letters, words, or an author's style are recognition tasks—the "what" of learning. Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas. Writing an essay or solving a math problem are strategic tasks—the "how" of learning. How students are engaged and motivated. How they are challenged, excited, or interested. These are affective dimensions—the "why" of learning. taken from http://www.cast.org/research/udl/index.html
 * Recognition networks**
 * Strategic networks**
 * Affective networks**

I think the guidelines are practicle and we should try and are the basis for differentiating our lessons for diverse populations. They are 1) Provide Multiple Means of Representation 2)Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression 3) Provide Multiple Means of Engagement

I really liked the UDL Book Builder. I too think is was fairly time consuming. I used the first part of chapter one of a book I am writing with my nephew. It is not a complete book but I didn’t want to have to fuss with the text. I did not like having to publish it in order to share it. It is not complete and I was just experimenting with the program. I liked the little characters to assist students with the content. I think it has great potential for differentiation. I would have liked the ability to record the text if a student would need that. Maybe it was there I was not able to find it. Being able to hyperlink to the web and a glossary was nice as well. I think allowing students to use this to create a book report might be very interesting. I am not sure how student’s logins would work. In the end though it was pretty time consuming. Here is the link to my book http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=share&book=d6c1faa420aeff2ab0ca8d8a086d4532&page=1

I also liked the top ten tips for using technology that Jose Picardo shared on Youtube