This toolkit has been made possible by the generous support of Verizon Foundation.

What is the Digital Content Toolkit?

The Digital Content Toolkit provides information, support, tools, ideas, models, research, and a community of practice for educators interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse learners.

Digital content includes text, images, sounds, and video that have been digitized, or brought into a computer. By virtue of one essential feature—flexibility—digital media surpass traditional media in their ability to meet diverse students' varied needs in a variety of instructional contexts. With digital content and the right software and online tools, you can offer students options for how they obtain information and how they express their understanding. These options help to engage each learner by providing the right level of challenge for him or her.

What can I do here?

• Learn digital content basics;
• Find free online and low-cost retail sources of digital content suitable for the classroom;
• Learn how to create your own digital content;
• Discover ways to integrate digital content into your classroom and curriculum;
• See model lessons that incorporate digital media.
• Share your ideas.

What Does The Toolkit Include?

• Procedures
  The steps and key UDL-based concepts of this toolkit. They tell you what to do and how to do it.
• Examples
  Classroom applications of the toolkit and guidance in applying UDL in your classroom. Examples may include case stories, model instructional units, and/or model lessons.
• Resources
  Further information, tools, templates, and related materials via online links and downloads.
• Share
  Connects you with others engaged in related work.