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 Learning Tools
Making Learning Accessible: Immersive Reader
Microsoft has made every effort to blend Learning Tools, such as Immersive Reader.
Immersive Reader
And many other spaces, such as:
OfficeLens_ImmersiveReader_iOS.mp4Immersive Reader in Your Browser
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.
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.
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
Access these FREE interactive guides for the #MicrosoftEDU Inclusive Classroom.
