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An online textbook and other multimedia instructional resources.

A robust open-sourced, resource-rich mathematics instructional aid.

This is a great resource for teachers. It offers videos, docs, audio, photos, channels, blogs, etc. that teachers can share. Videos can be uploaded and downloaded to share with other teachers. I think this will be a very useful and effective way to share presentations in my workshop.

This website is an interactive graphic organizer tool. It is a free resource that allows the user to create many graphic organizers to be used in a class. It is very user friendly, and can be designed to fit any workshop. Also, it allows real-time collaboration.

This website offers pre-made rubrics that teachers can use for various reasons. I will use this website to allow participants in my work shop to use to create their own rubrics for their work stations.

This site helps the teacher create assessments which are authentic and allow the learner to work towards completing the objectives.

Rubrics are a great way to assess student learning and Teach-nology provides many different rubrics for all types of authentic assessments. I have used this site many times in my own classroom for performance tasks, group projects, and individual projects. It offers pre-made rubrics and guidance on creating your own.

The correct website is www.mywebspiration.com. This website has various applications. For purposes of my workshop pre-training, I would lead with a mindmap that would illustrate its organization and concepts, and then hyperlink these to the tutorials in commoncraft.com and other resources. Audio, sharing, and outlining features would also be leveraged.

Website that is a good because it provides definition and descriptions of various authentic assessment tools and additional resource links.

This is a great website that contains thousands of free presentations from A-Z in Power Point format and free interactive games. You can get very creative with the resources at this site.

Having had experience with using the FreeMind mapping site to create mind maps and organizers I am familiar with how it functions. Mind mapping or using graphic organizers can make identifying essential information much easier for students and teachers. Having used this site personally, I find it easy to use and effective at creating a mind map that can be converted to a jpeg file and uploaded to a blog or wiki with ease.

I've used this free resource for all the mapping assignments throughout my courses. It's easy to use and export as a jpg. It provides a great way to introduce and organize concepts as visuals.

This site is a great resource to post presentations (PowerPoints, Word documents, PDF...) which may be too large to share on a blog or in an email. I n my workshop, participants may access videos, presentations and files with ease, as well as create their own log in to post their own findings and creations.

Upload a powerpoint presentation to view online. Links remain active. You can even view Scribd as a book. Scribd can also be uploaded to YouTube. Easy to use. Provides the text from the presentation in an outline format. Easy to use.

RCampus is a free online course management resource which provides opportunities to develop and organize training material specific to your topic and needs. I have used this site before and it is not difficult to design each element of a course, including easy monitoring of participation, and provides student access with individual log ins.

This online tutorial uses text to instruct learners on how to create a presentation using Windows Movie Maker.

Mostly technology-centered resources for multimedia technologies

The Teacher's Hub is a page from SMART that provides users with notebook collaborative learning software tutorials. On this page, teachers as well as others can learn information that will help add creative touches to lesson materials or even organize your work and teach interactive lessons. This site is a technology-centered learning site.

This website is the training search site for SMART tools and software.This site includes tutorials on various elements involved in using the Notebook software that comes with the SMART board.

Inspiration is an excelled software program that helps you create graphic organizers. I like this program more than the others because it allows the user to save the file as a PDF or JPEG file. Many of the other resources do not allow for specialized saving.

This website, although is the advertising for the software, has an area for teachers to sign-in. This access has training and tutorials for teachers on how to use the software and how to integrate it into the curriculum. The site provides lesson plans and ideas for teachers as well as a forum and technical support. These programs are concept-mapping or brain-storming programs designed to help students of all ages prepare and organize their thoughts for writing. The program provides both text and visual elements to assist the learner. Purchase of the software is a condition of access to the teacher support and training areas.

This website, although is the advertising for the software, has an area for teachers to sign-in. This access has training and tutorials for teachers on how to use the software and how to integrate it into the curriculum. The site provides lesson plans and ideas for teachers as well as a forum and technical support. These programs are concept-mapping or brain-storming programs designed to help students of all ages prepare and organize their thoughts for writing. The program provides both text and visual elements to assist the learner. Purchase of the software is a condition of access to the teacher support and training areas.