UDL Resources Guide

  1. Museum Gallery

This idea was shared by Christine Bowyer from KEC. The below site has a range of hyperlinked templates that allow students to create their own museum displays. Here is Christina’s e-mail explanation: /

Christy Keeler is the individual I originally found on the web with this "Virtual Museum" idea. Her site has templates and examples.

Google: Christy Keeler Virtual Museum

Her individual powerpoint templates will appear as well as other information.

We also looked at the site under the 2.5 portion of the UDL Guidelines Checklist of Museums of Online Museums as a place to compile information for the above museum project and for many other practice uses. The website is Melissa Harrellson from MMS also shared that she uses museum sites for her web quests. This site provides access to many different museums.

Constraints were getting access to enough computers, information is sometimes blocked, monitor nudity on the art sites, and the network and internet are sometimes unreliable.

  1. Prezi

This program was modeled by Lisa Lane from MMS. The program allows you to incorporate information into a visually interesting presentation outside of the usual power point. Lisa showed us how you can take an existing power point and easily make it into a Prezi. She also noted that you could insert Youtube videos. Please e-mail her for a sample lesson and Prezi. The website is program goes with guidelines 1.3, 4.2 and 5.1.

Constraints were getting access to enough computers, taking time to teach the student the program, and reliability of the network.

  1. Storycorps.org

Christina Bowyer shared this site with us, too. The site takes American stories and puts them to animation. It allows for that personal connection to be made by our students. Christina used the interviews about 9-11, but there are other topics, too. This site goes well with the UDL guidelines of 1.1-1.3, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 7.2, & 9.3.The website is

story is the one we watched.

Constraints were that videos need to be previewed first and some material is very emotional so introduction and caution may be needed.

  1. Blogs

Many of us are using blogs as part of our course content delivery and requirements. We shared how we use these at both the high school level and at the middle school level. For those of us who use them, we like the reading, writing, analyzing, and critical thinking that the blogs incorporate. I shared my blog site to show how I use it for my courses. Here are some links to look at to start your own blog on your school’s website.

Selina Jarvis Civics Blog

Selina Jarvis AP Blog

Joanna Blume Civics Blog

Lisa Lane History Blog

Blogs really incorporate UDL guidelines 1.1, 1.3, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2 & 9.3.

Constraints were approving all comments, correcting comments, and time constraints to learn the program.

  1. CNN Student News

This information was shared by Carolyn Fifield, Kim Jackson and Charla Connors of CCMS. This daily news segment is geared towards students. The programs include visually interesting stories, “shout-outs” that get the students involved, hero human interest stories, and quizzes that make news relevant. Kim Jackson shared that she gives the weekly quiz and allows them to use any notes they take from the segments. Pat Paye of CCHS added how much his own son is enjoying these segments. He noted that they have added a short-cut to their home computer for the site. We watched a segment and everyone seemed to enjoy the many different segments. The site is

This site incorporates so many of the UDL guidelines like the ones above in the blog section.

Constraints were that clips should be viewed first, but that the site really does a good job at filtering information.

  1. SMART Notebook Infinite Cloner

This idea was shared by Curtis Horne of MMS. He showed us how to make your SMART Board into a tool for the kids to answer questions by restating them using the questions themselves. The process was fairly easy and it allows students to move text, numbers, etc. from one place to another.This movement really helps use UDL guidelines 1.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, & 5.2.

Constraintswere reliability of technology and setting up the page for editing.

  1. Symbaloo

This site was shared by Joanna Blume from CCHS. The site allows you to compile websites in one location for students to use. Joanna shared with us how she compiled her websites for a Civics project on countries. The students were given the guideline and only had to go to this site to access others for their information. The website is website goes hand-in-hand with guidelines 3.1, 4.2 and 5.1.

Constraintsinclude setting up the sites, internet reliability and access.

  1. Other sites

Here are other programs and ideas shared by the group:

Site shared by Selina Jarvis for helping students create music videos. I use it for my Create-a-city project.

Site shared by Christina Bowyer as an alternative to Animoto.com

Site shared by Joanna Blume. She used the site with her Civics class where they had to illustrate how a bill becomes law.

Google Drop Box was shared by Lisa Lane. She requested that if you want more information to email her and she would help you set this tool up. The site allows you to save your documents and files in the cloud and share them with your colleagues.

Thank you all for you input and expertise. Good luck with your UDL ventures.

Selina Jarvis