My UDL, DI & Technology Experience

My UDL, DI and Technology Experience
This has been an exciting course. I have picked up many new ways to employ technology in multiple forms at the same time. Through UDL and DI, my students will be able to receive information, process it and then generate multiple forms of output that can measured for assessment and grading. With the flexibility of UDL, DI and technology, my students have already begun to employ these skills in the development and publication of our school newspaper. We are a small team, but we all bring a diverse number of resources to the table. With us working together, we can get large amounts of articles completed in a short period of time. We also get interviews, pictures, games and others newspaper pieces done because we are doing things we enjoy doing.
Going forward, we will also be looking into adding a video component that will be responsible for generating a live news feed from our web site. This will just be one more component of our UDL, DI and technology classroom. Through the use of a flip video that I will soon purchase for the school we will be able to shoot direct digital video and sent it straight into our Adobe Flash video production software.
Before this class, I was quite stubborn about using UDL and DI. Not because I did not support the program, but because I did not see how it could be used in my school. After learning more about it in this class though, I have gained a new understanding that even at my school it can be used. I am in a challenging school. We have a huge migration rate. Our students are extremely distressed financially. Many of them never see a computer unless it is my computer lab. I am so thankful for this class, now I understand that I will be able to use the UDL, DI and technology no matter where I end up or at whatever level I will be teaching in the coming years.
Anyway, it has been a wonderful time in this class and I cannot wait to finish up this this program so I may begin the next stage of my academic career as a Doctoral candidate here at Walden University. I am planning to enter the Ph.D. in Education – Technology Education program with a specialization in the study of Distance Learning of some sort. This is in no means set in stone, but it is something that intrigues me and the Florida Virtual High School would be a great place to start studying.