The Differentiation Station social network portion of this course turned out to provide me with so many useful resources in Universal Design for Learning. Due to the group effort and collaboration, we were all able to accumulate so many more links and resources than we would have individually. There are many resources that my group has posted that I have already bookmarked and used for our course assignments. I also plan to continue to refer to these resources for additional ideas and support as I gradually start implementing UDL in my classroom. We searched, located and shared a large amount of valuable resources
As a result of this course, I have learned many ways to use technology to customize instruction. I also learned and I think I got the most out of using technology to customize assessment. Before taking this course, I offered my student some options and I have differentiated my instruction to some extent. However, the area that most of this was taking place was in the actual teaching and learning part of my instruction not the assessment. I was stuck in the traditional written exam format for all students. This course helped me to see that this is not the only way to assess my students and it has offered me many new options that differentiate assessment, offer options to my students in the area of assessment and incorporate technology into my assessment. An immediate adjustment I will make as a result of this course is to offer my students more options and flexibility in my assessment methods and to have at least some options use technology tools. I love the clickers and I think I will start to push my school to invest in them. I also loved the on-line surveys we developed in week 2, I plan on implementing them immediately also to replace my paper versions.
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