Category: Accessibility

RE: UDL Uncompromising Directives by Phyllis Wright

Hi Phyllis, I didn’t see a way to leave a comment on your post, but I did particularly like your focus on the ‘why’: My goal is always to engage the “why” first in face to face or online, then “what” and finally “how.” With teaching or leadership, unless I can convince my followers to …

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In the Home Stretch with UDL

UDL!! The Recognition Network: Learning about UDL has been liberating: I now know why to include images rather than just text in my PPTs (I thought they were unnecessary decoration or ‘cutesy’); why my colleague almost always includes a visual (screen) during a talk; why my screen now will have a great deal of white …

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UDL and Accessibility

Over the years, the office of Disability services, has given great leadership on how I as a professor should interact with students in my f2f class.  I think it is important to highlight the students’ needs as a starting point.  Overall improvements to the course should include being inclusive of participating and potential students (disabilities …

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OERs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I posted in diigo (inadvertently jumping the gun) about how much I really liked MERLOT. I’ve used this site for years but never really, truly understood the significance and value of this resource until we started examining and discussing this kind of content in M8. I think it’s still my most favorite, and I find …

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UDL, Accessibility, and Coming to terms with kites

UDL has an intensely personal dimension for me.  I have a disabled adult daughter who lives with the double whammy of paraplegia and a cognitive/social disability.  Let us consider wheelchair accessibility as an example of how the rigorous application of UD makes a difference. When Karen was 11, we lived in a small town in …

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