#UDLchat November 18, 2015
Tonight's Topic: #UDL & #HigherEd
Welcome to #UDLchat!
#UDLchat is a bi-monthly Twitter chat focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). We are a virtual community of practitioners, enthusiasts, and evangelists eager to discuss resources, successes, and challenges in implementing UDL in a wide variety of environments and contexts.
Join us every 1st & 3rd Wednesday from 9-9:30pm ET / 6-6:30pm PT for a rapid-fire learning-focused chat, and build your PLN!
[image: "The purpose of education is not to make information accessible, but rather to teach learners how to transform accessible information into usable knowledge." Introduction to the UDL Guidelines (CAST, 2012)]
This quote can be found featured on the UDL On Campus website: UDL and Higher Education.
#UDLchat Question Preview
- Q1: #UDL is gaining rapid traction in the #HigherEd community. Why do you think this is?
- Q2: Some #HigherEd #UDL initiatives focus only on #accessibility. How can we open up the conversation to include learning? #a11y
- Q3: Where does #HigherEd & #K12 #UDL implementation converge? Where does it diverge?
- Q4: How can we bring #HigherEd & #K12 together to share #UDL resources, successes, and challenges to implementation?
Prep for the Chat with Emojis!
We usually like to start off the chat with introductions and an ice breaker question. Tonight, we'll ask you to describe yourself using up to 3 emojis! Don't know what an emoji is? Never fear, we have some resources to help:
- Emojipedia: Tons of emojis and their text equivalents
- Get Emoji: Copy and paste emoji into different tools and platforms
- CopyPasteCharater Emojis: Emojis and other ASCII characters to copy and paste into different tools and platforms
[image: Sixteen different facial expression emojis]
New to Twitter Chats?
Here are some great resources to get started!
- Edublogs Teacher Challenges: Participate in Twitter Chats
- The Social Media Coach: How to Participate in a Twitter Chat
- Twubs: #UDLchat - Lots of #UDLchat participants use Twubs to keep track of the fast-paced conversation. Twubs has great tools to speed up or slow down the pace of the tweets, and if you log in using your Twitter account, it adds the hashtag to your tweets for you!
[image: Twitter logo]