2. TargetAudience
■ My target audience will be first year collegiate political science majors
■ My goal is to effectively communicate to my students and relate information to them
by adapting my lessons based on their personalities and capabilities.
■ To account for all different kinds of students, I chose a smartboard program that can
be adapted to level the playing field to reduce intimidation and allow for maximum
participation.
4. How would I use the resources?
Main Goals:
■ Increase participation
■ Create a welcoming, less
intimidating, engaging
classroom experience
■ Create an experience
accessible by all types of
students
■ Promote intelligent,
realistic methods for
research of information
while playing the game to
establish reliable
research and web surfing
practices amongst my
students.
Weaknesses of chosen resource that I
hope to address in my adaptation:
• Inaccessibility to hard of hearing, blind,
and less literate students.
• Change from dollar values on
questions to something less
demeaning (for children that can
answer only “less valuable” questions)
• Intimidation caused by likeness to
nationally known and respected
television program.
5. Universal Design Integration
■ My main priority in adapting this lesson is to make something seemingly inaccessible to all types of people,
actually available to all types of students.
■ Pressures of college (especially in the first year) usually include trying to show an intellect beyond which one
might normally classify themselves in possession of.
■ Adapting the game to allow for more than 2 or 3contestants could help to include more students and
promote 100% participation.
■ The game Jeopardy! has an inadvertent effect of promoting exclusivity of certain, less educated groups of
people.
■ My adaptations allow students to utilize the format of the game without having to experience the shame
that the real television program promotes with its attitude towards losing/less intelligent contestants.
– Includes those with special needs, learning disabilities, autism, literacy skills, student that have been held
back, etc.
■ More details about how I intend to integrate universal design into this smartboard activity can be found on the
previous slide.
