Present information in different ways
Use the UDL guideline of multiple means of representation to help ākonga to engage meaningfully with material
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Take a multi-sensory approach
Take a multi-sensory approach
- Offer real experiences, physical activity, and manipulables to support understanding.
- Support text and spoken information with photos, graphics, audio, and video.
- Present digital text rather than printed text so that students can personalise it by enlarging it or listening to it.
- Use online tools such as Google Slides or blogs to bring multimedia together, so students have content options presented in different media all in one place (for example, a YouTube video, a graphic and some text).
- Make instructions, demonstrations, or key content rewindable and accessible 24/7.
Offer text-to-speech tools
Offer text-to-speech tools
No captions or transcript
Use a UDL approach
Use a UDL approach
Offer students multiple representations of information and multiple ways to demonstrate understanding.
Use videos with closed captions
Use videos with closed captions
How to find YouTube videos with closed captions using a laptop or desktop computer.
Find out more about the benefits of making closed captions available to all students.
- Search for YouTube and open the home page.
- Type search subject (for example “frogs”) into YouTube search bar and press return key.
- On left of screen, click the tab called “Filters” and a menu box will open.
- Select “subtitles/CC” under the Features list.
- Select a video from the selection of filtered videos presented by YouTube.
- Watch the selected video with the closed captions turned on to check for accuracy before sharing with students.
- Share closed captioned video with students.
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