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This website shows hot to create a customized organized chart in Microsoft Power Point 2007. As the speaker gives verbal directions, she clicks on the relevant tabs to serve as a model. The dual coding enhances generative processing of essential concepts.

This website shows how to create a customized organized chart in Microsoft Word 2007. The verbal directions that correlate with the visual modeling foster generative processing of essential information. In addition, workshop participants may wish to personalize or modify graphic organizers to fit within their individual classrooms.

This site provides a video tutorial on how to create a Gmail account. It is essential learning for workshop participants who will be expected to participate in Google shared documents throughout the workshop activities. The tutorial fosters generative processing since it incorporates both verbal and pictorial directions.

Comic life is a fun, learner-centered multimedia tool that offers both pictures and text in graphic novel form. Users will see directions for creating a blog as well as pictures that graphically display each step, so that they feel confident that they are following directions correctly.

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This website allows you to choose an avatar and design a 3D animated presentation of the text provided. This will be a great added feature to add visuals to what I have to share for my presentation. In my classroom, this multimedia tool would inspire student creativity, meet student learning needs who may be uncomfortable speaking in front of others.

You can use this site to make animated movies of your presentation.

This video is a great tutorial on how to use Survey Monkey. It is a great resource for using as a pre-training tool for a multimedia workshop that you may be developing. I liked this tutorial better than the others because it was direct, simple, and organized.

This site allows educators to create a track of websites on any topic to create an online lesson/ pre-training activity. The educator can add directions for activities that students are to complete while looking through each website. This site is useful, because it is simple to use, even for a novice. It also aids the user by providing a database to search for tracks that are already completed.

The term market sector is used in economics and finance to describe a set of businesses that are buying and selling such similar goods and services that they are in direct competition with each other.

This listing gives good directions on locating Web 2.0 tools. This list has more variety in the tools listed. It uses text and graphics to communicate the concepts.

This video discusses how to deliver differentiated instruction effectively in the classroom. The presenter discusses how educators can incorporate differentiated instructed with some of the current instructional methods that teachers use such as direct instruction.

The Study Island program is specifically designed to help students master the Tennessee Curriculum Standards. Study Island's focus on the required standards enables students to improve their performance in all standard skill areas, which results in increased proficiency and leads to improved test scores for Math, Reading/Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. Students can use Study Island from any computer with internet access. This will help students prepare for TCAP (Tennessee's state assessment) as well as for next year's learning. Blue ribbons show mastery in the Subject Areas and Topic Areas assessed on TCAP. As students advance through the objectives, they can use games or test mode to complete tasks and achieve blue ribbons. I have seen this learner centered program really boost student learning in science and social studies, subjects I feel are often left to cram in at the end of the day. It appeals to students at various grade and learning levels. It is repetitive and gives direct instruction for areas of need.

.The website, Technology Resource Teachers, provides guidance and steps for teachers to update and utilize their promethean boards without having to ask their technology coordinator. It provides visuals along with step by step directions.

Teachers is a site which supports the learning and teaching process and is directed towards the teachers. It is directly oriented towards Differentiating Instruction and provides some ideas and strategies on how to start differentiating instruction in the classroom.

CAST site which introduces us to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) where learning is directed towards the learner's skills, needs and interests.

This website offers information on the use of blogging as a Web 2.0 tool. There is a video that discusses specific benefits and attributes. A direct link to the video is http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/WebLoggingSmall.mov