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Arts and UDL

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Explore and share how the arts can provide multiple, rich, meaningful teaching and learning options to support comprehension, meaning-making, and engagement for everyone!

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Latest Activity: May 15

WAITING for UDL
Don Glass and Kim Willey created this animation to address key questions about UDL in the form of a dialog between two animated characters. The animation tools provide an engaging way to enliven the information through dramatic gesture, sound effects, and camera angles.

For captioning, language translation, and an interactive transcript, view on YouTube.

Waiting for UDL Script

Waiting for UDL by Don Glass and Kim Willey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Get Up to Speed on UDL and Share Alike!

Check out some background information and resources for self-paced study of UDL and the arts. Use or re-mix these resources for your own professional learning courses, workshops, or professional learning communities!

Expert Lecture: Using Music to Explain Variability and UDL

An expert lecture and presentation of how the arts can provide rich meaningful options for engagement, representation, and action and expression. The media file is a record of David Rose's OSEP Project Directors Conference Keynote, July 2011 titled: From Bach to Lady Gaga: Music Lessons for Special Education.

Arts and UDL Case Studies

Share your own arts case stories on UDL Connect! Consider putting together a posting that highlights your implementation of UDL. Here are some example case studies and mini-websites.

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Use this discussion forum to embed or upload your Arts and UDL stories:Summarize your unit of study (i.e., goals, assessment, methods, and materials)Explain how UDL was valuable in addressing an…Continue

Started by Don Glass Apr 16.

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Comment by kerry armstrong on February 20, 2012 at 6:56pm: How about Tony Buzan and Mindmapping? Note taking and recording using pictures and colour coding! We use this a lot with our Inquiry and Project based learning AND add to that Inspiration software!

http://www.inspiration.com/

Comment by Stephen Petrucci on February 20, 2012 at 11:21am: Recently listened to Rosenstock on the High Tech High school philosophy in San Diego. It struck me that their Project Based Learning approach is really the intersection of the Arts with Science. Creativity meets content...

Comment by Don Glass on February 20, 2012 at 10:23am: The Kennedy Center has recently launched a series of articles on how arts integration aligns with major trends in education including Universal Design for Learning. Check out their spin on the arts and UDL!

Comment by Stephen Petrucci on December 10, 2011 at 4:55pm: Just posted a blog on the importance of school bands and the link to UDL

Band is UDL!

Comment by Stephen Petrucci on December 7, 2011 at 11:27am: I love the Bach visual representation that Don just profiled. Here's a great link that demonstrates dance used to present PhD theses! Dance your PhD.

Comment by anne meyer on November 30, 2011 at 2:07pm: Hi all

i am just joining this and i don't quite know what it's about but i love the title!

looking forward to learning more!

Comment by Stephen Petrucci on November 29, 2011 at 8:29pm: ps. I love the artistic rendition of the UDL guidelines.

Comment by Stephen Petrucci on November 29, 2011 at 8:28pm: Hi there - looking forward to sharing ideas around the Arts as a fundamental element in UDL. My last blog is on this topic. The Fine Arts are UDL. Thanks for the kind words Don. Looking forward to reading your blogs in January. I'm also interested in hearing about your work with various districts.