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Break your text and multimedia content into smaller chunks to make it easier for users to understand and remember information.

When headings and subheadings visually stand out on the page and are descriptive, users engage in an efficient scanning pattern that allows them to quickly find the information that they need.

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

Reading from screens is 25% slower than from paper and we know that Web users skim rather than read. Web text should be short, emphasize scannability, and be structured into multiple hyperlinked pages (each focused on a subtopic).

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

On the web and on paper, start content with the most important piece of information allows readers to quickly get the main point, regardless of how much they read.

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.

Introduction Hypothesis lets you take notes, view and reply to other notes, along with other features. When you open a Hypothesis assignment you’ll see the web page or PDF your teacher assigned alongside the Hypothesis sidebar. The Basics The first time you’re in a Hypothesis assignment, the sidebar will contain some basic instructions.   Highlights […]

This post brings together a suggested list, a curated list if you will, of 16 curation tools for teachers and students from the Shake Up Learning community.

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The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

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A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.

Overview Teaching Effectively With Zoom - Checklists for download By Dan Levy On this website you can find the sample checklists of the concrete steps you need to take in order to implement the ideas provided in the book Teaching Effectively with Zoom. For more information, please refer to the ...

The mode keeps participants’ eyes on the host

We've got a step-by-step guide on how to change your Zoom name, profile picture and background, make a breakout room, add your pronouns and more.

For accessibility reasons alone, online classes and Zoom meetings should routinely offer a captioning option, but it has additional benefits, write David G. Myers and Morton Ann Gernsbacher.

In a recent conversation on Twitter, an educator asked for an explanation for the learning styles myth. Lots of individuals spoke up to explain why it is considered a myth and why it can be problematic. But someone also commented that matching instruction to learning style might actually HURT learni

Social annotation tools provide instructors with a platform for applying principles of UDL in their courses to support neurodiverse learners.

By: Babe Liberman. Digital Promise and the Institute for Applied Neuroscience teamed up to synthesize findings from the growing field of learning sciences research into 10 key insights about how people learn.