Announcements

 Today is the Day!!! Here is the link to today's agenda. 

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 March 13th Agenda:

 

 

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 March 6th, Agenda

1) Artwork and Treasure Hunt

2) Read over Google Docs - Barriers and Strategies

3) Examplars of overcoming barriers (Tasks: Assign at least two note takers (Google Docs) and one tweeter for each example. It must be a different person for each exemplar.)

• Westglen
• School of One
• Inquiry/Project based learning

4) Make a 60 second Youtube video on what were the key points for all three exemplars. (To be shared at the Mar 13 meeting)

5) School Survey??

 

Take Aways:

1) Finish Youtube Video

2) Read three articles from one strand of UDL. Create a blog telling us what you learned. EVERYONE must comment on at least one blog.

3) School Survey??

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 Week #2: What is Universal Design for Learning?

Objective:  
Students will have a basic understanding of Universal Design for Learning with a strong understanding of how it relates to helping students overcome their barriers to learning

Pre-Tasks:
1) Complete School blog and posting
2) Treasure Hung activity

3) Please print off pirate drawing resources

Virtual Town Hall Agenda:

1. Treasure Hunt winner announced
2. Blogs - School presentations
3. Pirate Activity - LInks to Pirate pictures
4. Watch Video on UDL - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4

Take Away Task:   
Student Google Docs Tasks

Split your class into 

Engagement

Representation

Action/Expression

Engagement

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 Hello Everyone!

What an amazing afternoon!! I was so impressed by the incredible work accomplished by the students in such a short period of time. Now here are the next crucial steps we need completed by Wednesday:

1) Make sure your VIrtual Profile Treasure Hunt Statement is completed by Friday at 10:00 and posted on the GDoc.  (After 10:00, go in and make a copy of the Gdoc so you can start filling it out. Remember the school with the most correct guesses, get's a prize.)

2) Anytime this week you encounter a barrier in your education, tweet out your thoughts to the NCC virtual Class: #UDL

3) Complete your school Blog by Monday at 3:30 on Barriers. You are free to take whatever angle on this that you like. Make sure that reference the Google Doc we created on Barriers form all the schools.  

4) Have at least one posting on another schools Blog

5) Explore the virtual Classroom and get to know your Virtual NCC Classroom classmates!!

6) We need Artwork for the front of the virtual page. Give to your teachers your best art that tells the story of your successes and challenges overcoming barriers in your education. Only one will go on the webpage but they will all be added to the online Global Gallery.

See you Wednesday, Feb 27th, at 3:30.

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 Training Seminar Agenda:

1. School introductions (Include one cool/funny piece of information about your school that none of the other schools would know)
2. Introduction to what the VTH is all about
3. Watch video created by our schools on Barriers
4. School share their 5 Barriers with the group (Link to GDoc inserted here to add barriers during the 1st meeting)
5. Introduce TakingITGlobal Virtual Classroom,
6. Introduce Tasks for the week

Take Away Task:

1. Create profile on TakingITGlobal
2. Submit Artwork for our webpage
3. Technology Familiarity survey (surveymonkey?)
4. Each school should construct a blog posting on ???. The title of the blog post should contain the school name and the province/territory that your school is from.  

Each school should also post at least one response to the blog posting of another school.

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