PATINS UDL Project

The Buddy Teaching & Learning Center currently has a grant opportunity that all pubic schools in Indiana can apply for to receive a Wii system, accessories, games, and professional development for integrating the system into physical education, music education, social skills development, and/or academic achievement.  We will be awarding several of these grants.
The original deadline for this grant was today, February 16, but due to the weather-caused closings and related issues from a few weeks ago, the grant deadline has been extended to February 28.
Complete information about this grant and an application is available at our website, www.btlc.org.
Even if you are not interested in the grant, we have Wii integration sessions that will begin in April.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Margaret Manuzzi

Margaret Manuzzi, Coordinator
Buddy Teaching & Learning Center
6920 Gatwick Drive, Suite 130
Indianapolis, IN  46241
P  (317) 856-2223
F  (317) 856-2224

Using Tic-Tac-Toe boards to assign curriculum activities or to assess student learning is a great way to let students make choices about the activities they do in your lessons, and it will help them be more engaged and involved in their own learning.  Since it is much easier to set up Tic-Tac-Toe boards for your class if you see some good examples, here are two.

Dave Edyburn has a web site (go to http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/tictactoe.html) that offers Tic-Tac-Toe board  information for various primary, elementary and middle school activities, including:

• book report
• hats
• spelling
• community helpers
• nutrition
• poetry
• sailing

Maureen LaFleche also has a web site with a good example of using a Tic-Tac-Toe board for offering students choices in curricular activities in the review of a novel in her literature class.  Go to:  http://tkamforall.pbwiki.com/Activities