Special Podcast Episode: UDIO, a New Literacy Resource from CAST

 

 

Graham Gardner, Research Associate at CAST
(Center for Applied Special Technology)

 

 

This episode features an interview with Graham Gardner of CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology). At the recent planning and visioning meeting of the Literacy Professional Learning Network at the annual ISTE Conference, Graham made a presentation about UDIO, CAST's new Literacy resource directed at Middle School Reading Instruction. Graham and podcast host, Mark Gura, recorded this in-depth discussion about UDIO shortly after the meeting.

 

 

 

 

Click the arrow above to listen to this Special Episode 
(player may take several seconds to begin) Direct link: https://soundcloud.com/literacy-special-interest/specialepisode-cast-9

 

 

Links for UDIO and CAST

CAST website: http://www.cast.org/index.html

UDIO page: http://www.cast.org/research/projects/udio.html

UDL Exchange: http://udlexchange.cast.org/home

Want to get involved with UDIO? Email: udio-recruit@cast.org

Care to share a comment with Graham or the Literacy PLN about UDIO?
Either use the "Comments" feature of this blog or email the podcast at:
literacyspecialinterest@gmail.com

National Center on the Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Literacy Achievement for Students with Disabilities in Middle School http://cet.cast.org/

Article:  All Along
Ed. The Magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2014/01/all-along/  

Edutopia article on UDIO http://www.edutopia.org/blog/udio-tech-platform-reading-disabilities-ted-hasselbring

 

Podcast theme music - Sunny Day by Mastermind XS / Free Music Archive

Host, Mark Gura’s sites:
http://www.lighting-a-fire.com/ + http://markgura.blogspot.com/ + http://www.classroomrobotics.blogspot.com/