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Back **Differentiating Online Instruction to Accommodate Learning Styles** Recording: [] //Every online classroom is made up of students with diverse approaches to learning. Understanding and responding to learning styles can be a challenge for online teachers. This session will use web-based tools and strategies to assist teachers in both identifying students' learning styles and intelligences and engaging students in activities which best suit those styles and intelligences. Participants will have the opportunity to both discuss ideas and the demonstrated tools during the session.//

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Vygotsky - zone of proximal development (ZPD) learn w/out frustration

Check out Carol Ann Tomlinson - teachers vary content, process, products according to student readiness, intersts, learning profiles have to get to know our students, we need to see students as people also

DI is here to stay, not a fad, common sense Knowledge, Skills and attitudes. Everything needs to remain in alignment with standards and assessment of the concepts. Online/Virtual better environment to differentiate for students.

Web 2.0 tools:
 * vary text and resrouce materials (Wordle.net creates visual word cloud for struggling readers, provides main ideas) (audio files of parts of texts) (video, simulations, audio from Web)
 * social bookmarking (
 * graphic organizers (Inspiration, highly structured providing most of content, open allowing for student input, blended option)
 * podcasts
 * avatars (addition
 * minilessons

Video Clips: [|www.TED.com] Wordle.net - visual word cloud Russell Stannard for Audacity
 * [|www.teachertube.com]
 * [|www.pbs.org](Nova episodes)
 * Google video for clips to add to online course
 * [|www.learner.org]More than video, other resources as well
 * be sure to preview videos and check availability
 * attention getters, something not in content, but linked
 * Annenberg Media - learner/org
 * Teachertube.com
 * idesktop.tv
 * education.animoto.com
 * www.diigo.com
 * bubbl.us - graphic organization tools (Top 100 learning tools of ed tech professionals - Jane Harts (UK)
 * Visual Thesaurus
 * [|www.gcast.com]
 * [|www.voki.com] (simple avatars audio content to courses)
 * [|www.dimdim.com] (minilessons to review students)
 * [|www.learningcentral.com]
 * [|www.voicethread.com] check out the wiki for content area and grade level (peer conferencing, writer's workshop)
 * [|www.buzzdash.com] (online polling tool - embed in Moodle) formative assessment

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