UVM Blogs

Check out this 4 and a 1/2 minute video entitled, ‘UDL At a Glance’:

It’s made by CAST, an org that is really making UDL a reality in schools, probably near you!
Cheers from the UDL@UVM Team!
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Presentation PPT file and TRIO Documents, and CAST UDL Representation Sheet “I’m Autistic” on You Tube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzY3u_cUhk Neurotypicals on wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotypical CAST Resources http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm http://mywebspiration.com/ How to Keep Students Engaged in Class <a …[Read more]

I feel that this video provides a unique look at the architecture of education, in a way that is not formally addressed. It questions play and imagination. I think, if anything these thought processes are important to keep in mind when generating ideas. Children and their creative imagination place no value in judgement. They are [...]

The University of Vermont, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Project invites you to attend “Better Learning by Design.” This three-day conference gathers nationally known experts and offers the opportunity to become knowledgeable in the theory and application of UDL principles. As defined by The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, UDL is…[Read more]

Forty-five years ago yesterday, I stood before the Alabama state capital building with a diverse (a word not in our lexicon of ethnic adjectives then) crowd of people on a rainy afternoon and listened to the Reverend Martin Luther King, a very tired Martin Luther King, deliver these words: “the arc of the moral universe bends [...]

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Often students with disabilities have a difficult time adjusting to college life. The main adjustment problem arises from the differences between the high school and college experience for students with disabilities. High school students with disabilities are actively supported by their school, their teachers, and the administration. Once a…[Read more]

Building Healthy Communities through Universal Design http://publichealthlive.blip.tv/file/3269378/ The broadcast discusses the principles of Universal Design and its application in building healthy communities. Speakers discuss the evolution of this design philosophy and describe its influence on social and physical environments, architecture,…[Read more]

I am struck repeatedly by how the Universal Design for Learning principles at the core of our project reach so far and so widely into the fabric of the university. We knew at the beginning that we would be deeply involved with faculty and their courses and with students with disabilities. But we have quickly [...]

Rather than allowing students to use the talents that they bring to the classroom to succeed. Many teachers make the students do things one way. The old approach of “my way or the highway is very limiting, not every student is the bird or the monkey. Isn’t teaching supposed to enable the most out of [...]

Cristal found an amazing website, by Brigham Young University, on collaborative learning: http://ctl.byu.edu/collaborative-learning/ Engagement, one of the 3 UDL Principles (Engagement, Representation, and Expression), is all about getting students interested, hooking the content of the lesson to their previous knowledge, and letting them feel…[Read more]

Yesterday, Tuesday Jan. 18th 2009…. UDL’s new media team called RAGE (Rathbone.Ahrens.Gupta.Edleman) drafted a proposal to get the support of UVM Media Services department so that the they can edit collected footage of the consultations process- results and implementation in a professional 10 minute video. We are excited to move forward with…[Read more]

OK, all you UDL@UVMers, let’s all cheer Holly for setting this blog up for us. 3 cheers, Huzzah!!! And then let’s figure out what we want to use it for. I will be interested in hearing from each of us about what we’re running into in the real world of our work, issues that we [...]

Welcome to the UDL @ UVM blog! The UDL team is hoping this blog will serve as a discussion board and repository of all things related to UD. Universal Design (UD) in Learning is about applying Universal Design guidelines to the teaching environment. The guidelines put simply: Use Multiple Means of Representation Use Multiple Means [...]