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This tutorial teaches users how to most effectively use the gallery tool in the SMART software. Most users use the gallery, but do not maximize the effectiveness of this tool. The presenter in the video is a trained SMARTboard trainer and goes through the tutorial at a comfortable pace and allows users to practice as he goes through it. I found this site to be extremely beneficial for all users of SMART software, novice to expert.

This YouTube site contains multiple short videos about the different tools and aspects of KidPix. It is user-friendly and easy to follow and understand. The videos do not have to be viewed in any particular order thus allowing the user to access just the information they need at that time. The videos are straight-forward and are not cluttered with other "details" as is found in the manual for the program. These videos are a perfect get started quick place to begin.

This site boasts a 12 minute video to visually appeal to the learners to see and hear how Google apps can be implemented in the daily life of an educator. It demonstrates for the learner all of the various possibilities that Google has created to alleviate some of the time pressures teachers experience. It is for the teacher who is not aware of all that Google has to offer.

This site presented by the University of Washington provides teachers with directions and links to easily begin to implement multimedia tools in the classroom.

This site allows you to create an interactive comic utilizing some elementary game development principles.

CourseSites is a free online LMS that allow for teachers to embed multimedia and all other sorts of documents to their courses in order to create rich learning experiences for their students

This site is a great icebreaker to a new topic. It provides easy to understand basics on any topic that you might teach. I would encourage teachers to use the quiz program to assess what students already know at the start of the lesson.

BrainPOP is a collection of numerous animated, educational learning videos. They are designed for students in grades K - 12. Many videos also come in Spanish.

BrainPop is a group of 1,000+ short animated curriculum-based content videos with quizzes, supplemental information and related materials in all subject areas, including professional development resources to support K-12 teachers.

This site allows the user to create a screencast using a web based service, so unlike other screencasting programs, this one is entirely online. The benefit of screencasting is that you can show your users how to create something using the computer and be able to share the video in the end.

Blackboard 9+ offers collaborative tools within their learning environment. These tutorials offer a great learning tool for the presentation.

LMS have taken collaboration and made it easy. Rather than accessing numerous external sites, they've included blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking, such as diigo.

Odijoo is a very user friendly course authoring and publishing tool. This helps to create and publish learning objects to multiple courses. There is a free option, as well as cost effective paid options

This is a good teacher resource to help organize thoughts for a problem based learning activity. I chose this site among others because it makes more sense to be consistent and clear about the task and then let the user decide what multimedia effect could be used to help design the solution.

This is a site that provides free templates to make interactive PowerPoints. The pre-training activity will need to demonstrate active and engagement. The PowerPoint templates will provide a service to complement the Microsoft PowerPoint programs already purchased.

This is a free site that lets you import images to create a slide show or a quiz along with an mp3 file to embed in your web page, wiki or blog. I tried this at a professional development development conference and found it to be extremely user friendly and a cinch to put together. I like how I can create a quiz with images and text on a screen to ask a question or make a comment.