Objectives & Overview - Using Audio/Video

 Barrier in Brief

Some students struggle with reading in any form due to disability or disposition. Others, who are otherwise strong readers, find reading digital texts to be difficult. 

 

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• Lesson
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 Lesson Overview 

This lesson will address strategies for supporting students who would benefit when instructional content is presented via alternate formats and media. This reflects...

 

 

Regarding this checkpoint, the UDLGuidelines.org Links to an external site. says,

"Classroom materials are often dominated by information in text. But text is a weak format for presenting many concepts and for explicating most processes. Furthermore, text is a particularly weak form of presentation for learners who have text- or language-related disabilities. Providing alternatives—especially illustrations, simulations, images or interactive graphics—can make the information in text more comprehensible for any learner and accessible for some who would find it completely inaccessible in text."

 

 Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, instructors should be able to...

• • Design and develop pages on Canvas that effectively utilize audio and video options for representing content and concepts.
  • Identify and utilize tools on Canvas or elsewhere for making and/or sharing audio files or video podcasts, and for embedding media from external sources (e.g. TED, Youtube, Lynda, Khan Academy).

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