On the Trails

Today I accidentally typed in shive6 – my gmail address and the beginning part of several email addresses I had in my life – and discovered a post wrote in 1997 – http://www.weightsnet.com/weights/issue/1423 (to find it use the find function of your browser – Ctrl-f or Apple -f and then type in shively.
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Dr. David Rose recorded a podcast regarding the book, “Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age, Universal Design for Learning”.

The book is available here – http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/
The podcast with captions is available here – http://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=384&Itemid=348

My notes regarding the podcast are below:Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age, Universal Design for LearningBy David Rose
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Today’s U.S. K-12 students grew-up with digital technologies. These students are not merely technology-savvy; they are approaching their lives differently as they integrate digital technologies—such as computers, the Internet, instant messaging, cell phones, and e-mail—seamlessly throughout their daily activities. Time spent using digital media, children [...]

Defining Vocabulary words is common practice in schools today. Most students use the glossary of the text book or a dictionary. For those in a One Laptop Per Child School, using Firefox and the add-on, the dictionary tool tip, can accomplish this task and a little bit more.
This assumes that you have downloaded Firefox [...]