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=**Welcome to "Universal Design for Literacy"!**=

//This wiki is designed to help facilitate networking and an ongoing professional learning community for attendees of the 2010 Region 4 Reading and Writing Conference: "Universal Design for Literacy." Join us--Sign on, Download, and Empower one another and your students through application of principles of [|Universal Design for Learning].//

Conference Descriptor:
 Plug in to differentiation through the application of Universal Design for Learning principles to reading and writing instruction. Sign on to a 21st century technology-filled classroom with the reading/writing connection, process learning, genre integration, content-area literacy, and support for the struggling student and the English Language Learner. Log off at the end of the day, linked to a "database" of strategies to empower all students.

__ ﻿Conference Schedule: __

 * Time || Event ||
 * 8:30-9:30 AM || Keynote Address and Author Introduction ||
 * 9:30-9:45 AM || AM Exhibit Engagement ||
 * 9:45- 10:45 AM || Breakout Session 1 ||
 * 10:55-11:55 AM || Breakout Session 2 ||
 * 12:00-1:00 PM || Lunch and Exhibit Engagement ||
 * 1:00- 2:00 PM || Breakout Session 3 ||
 * 2:00- 2:25 PM || PM Exhibit Engagement ||
 * 2:30- 3:30 PM || Breakout Session 4 ||

Keynote Speech--> "Promise Into Practice: Using New Media to Teach and Learn Alongside Students"
Breakout Session-->:"Real Reasons to Write: Working With Authentic Tools, Tasks, and Audiences" Wikispace for Sara Kajder

=== __Conference Featured Author__: Sarah Schmelling  Breakout Session--> "New Literacies: The Classics and Social Media" Maidens Who Don't Float Video ===