Empower Every Student with the Inclusive Classroom

Guest Co-Host: Monique Lindsey from Microsoft with Robert Bennett

Session Description

Inclusive classrooms aim to serve the needs of all students, regardless of background, identity, or academic skillset. These intentional learning environments leverage flexible content delivery, provide targeted instruction, and encourage student reflection and ownership. In this session, you will experience how tools like Immersive Reader, OneNote, Whiteboard, and more help you as the instructor provide accessible inclusive classrooms for all!

Introducing Monique Castillo-Lindsey

Exploring MS Teams

Resources Available

Meet Monique Lindsey

Monique Castillo-Lindsey is the Dallas-based Microsoft Learning Consultant. She supports K12 and Higher Education with customized professional development for Microsoft Education tools.

Monique has worked in child development through adult education for the past decade. Her passion is in E-Learning and making every educator, student, and more ready for the future of tomorrow's education.

Email: Monique.Lindsey@usmie.com

Twitter: M_CLindsey

Microsoft Remote Learning Webinar Series -

Microsoft Teams in Education

1. 1. Online Classes & Lectures with All Your Students Part 1: Set Up Your Class
  2. Online Classes & Lectures with All Your Students Part 2: Schedule Online Meetings

You Can in :90 - Remote Learning & SEL

Microsoft Learning Tools

Making Learning Accessible: Immersive Reader

Microsoft has made every effort to blend Learning Tools, such as Immersive Reader.

Immersive Reader

All free, Office 365 apps (including Microsoft Forms!)
Dyslexia
Buncee
Flipgrid
Nearpod
ThingLink
Wakelet

And many other spaces, such as:

Follett, JogNog, Kortext, Mindsets Learning, MyDay, OhBot, Oxford University Press, PowerSchool, SiLAS, Skooler, Squigl

OfficeLens_ImmersiveReader_iOS.mp4

Immersive Reader in Your Browser

Get the Unofficial Immersive Reader Chrome Extension

Thanks to Joe Marquez for sharing this. Check out his video to the right, as well as his Wakelet on favorite Chrome extensions.

Microsoft Forms & Immersive Reader

Making Learning Accessible: WHITEBOARD

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for pen and touch, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, while automatically recognizing and transforming shapes and tables as you draw. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. And all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device.

What is Microsoft Whiteboard and How Do You Use it?

Using Microsoft Whiteboard with Teams

Microsoft Whiteboard App: The collaborative online whiteboard

Making Learning Accessible: ONENOTE

Microsoft's OneNote is a note-taking application. It provides a hub for all of your notes, which can be organized into separate notebooks, and individual sections within notebooks. It is compatible with a range of digital formats, meaning it’s possible to pin multimedia documents as well as simple text. Students and Teachers can use their OneNote organize and store their notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries.

Some ideas from Jennifer Gonzalez:

Upload any PDF into OneNote (or use OneNote Class Notebook to share handouts or notes with the whole class). Once the text is in OneNote, students can use the Immersive Reader to dial in the precise reading conditions that work best for them.
Have students compose their own writing pieces in Microsoft Word or OneNote, then use the Read Aloud feature to listen to what they wrote. In the 2017 study, students who used this feature demonstrated noticeable improvements in their writing: With the ability to hear their writing read aloud at any stage of the writing process, students showed more motivation to revise and edit their writing than in previous years.
If you use the Microsoft Edge browser, you can send students to any web page and they can have the text read aloud to them or switch to distraction-free reading view, where they can enlarge the font for easier reading, highlight the text, and even take notes that can be saved for later. Edge can also be used to read any PDF or ePub file: When you right-click on these files in Windows 10, just scroll down to “Open with” and choose Edge.

Inclusive Classroom Interactive Guides