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This is a free site for creating interactive flipbooks from pdf files. This is easy to use, share, and embed onto websites. Great way for individuals to share learning.

Reading stories for each week have great tools online to increase comprehension. Online instruction includes: Meet the Author/Illustrator, Literacy Lessons, Research and Inquiry Activities, Language Activities, and Vocabulary/Spelling Activities.

Brain Honey is a site that is available for purchase that offers quizzes, tests, discussion boards, and more for users. Brain Honey also has a grade book and massive storage available.

"Mrs. McDowell's Classroom Centers" is a teacher created website that explains how she uses her classroom centers. This website is meant to serve as an example to help other instructors to set up a classroom with literacy work stations. It includes many words explaining the work stations with many graphics that exemplifies the models. This website is learner-centered because it is using technology, links to books, ideas, etc., to aid human cognition. The learner who uses this information is learning under a cognitive situation. I find this website especially useful, and it compliments human abilities, as technology should (Mayer, 2009, p. 13).

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.

What it does: Allows teachers to create a simple cartoon strip. Why this one: It is free and easy to use. It provides templates from which to choose. I see a great benefit in that teachers can quickly create a dozen of these messages in the same time it would take to create just 1 video message. Therefore, time and practicality are key benefits. As mentioned above, I have tried to maintain the need for simplicity and efficient use of time. Creating multimedia presentations are but a small fraction of the enormous number of jobs a teacher must complete. Learning benefits: I see this more for generative learning. Role playing, "what if" scenarios, and thought-provoking situations can be presented by the teachers.

This is a tool which can be used for digital storytelling.  It is technology centered although its use is learner centered.  I incorporated the use of this tool with students from another school to retell parables with a 21st century twist in the middle school curriculum of the private Christian school at which I taught.

This is a free site that allow you to create cartoons using the available images, images you create, or your own photos. Just drag and drop!

This website is a great introduction piece to get your learners interested in the product they will be producing. It is a great step-by-step video to help them understand the process they will be following.

The book or online resources provides access to online lectures ideal for students of English as a foreign language to practice their academic English skills. A great resource for students who will venture into English Medium Instruction (EMI) university for the first time.