Differentiating Instruction Resources and Tools

Below you will find links to tools and resources that useful for the implementing UDL and DI in our classrooms.

The HotPotatoes home page is located at the University of Victoria. Hot Potatoes is easy to use software that I have used to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. I have been using it for several years. Pre-assessments, continuous, formative and summative assessments can be designed with this resource. Hot Potatoes was recently released as freeware. http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

This is a great tool for educators who are new at building webquests, hotlists or treasure hunts. Filamentality carefully guides you through the process of selecting a topic, searching the Internet, identifying links and developing online learning activities. When used as project work, the tasks can be effectively be assigned as group work. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

QuestGarden is an online authoring tool and community and hosting service designed to create Web Quests. It is a fun and easy way to create Webquests. You can follow the following link for a tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1VZzzzY1sA http://questgarden.com/

I recently began using Live Meeting as I participated in a webinar related to EFL. Live Meeting is a resource that offers all of the features and benefits requires from web conferencing. It includes application sharing, Power Point viewing, polling and mood indicator tools. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/livemeeting/default.aspx

I look forward to your comments and recommendations.

Miriam