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Edit your photos online with comic-style captions. Explanation of choice: Creates free, professional-looking photo-shop products which can be saved, printed, and uploaded to other sites. Works in your browser with no downloads required.

Create your own free motivational poster on topic of your choice from an image you upload. Great for generative learning in introducing a topic or inspiring students to engage in an activity. Explanation of choice: Produces free, professional-looking photo-shop products which can be saved, printed, and used in other sites. Works in your browser with no downloads required.

This website from UNC has a user test for Blackboard. It includes a discussion forum test, an upload file test, and a quiz test. It is well organized in that you have to pass the first test to get a password to complete the second, and then the second to complete the third. The benefit is that it is open to anyone (you get a universal login) and it is in the real platform, so it is authentic.

Blip.tv offers free digital publishing solutions to host video productions. Used by many schools for its convenience, ease of use and statistical support tools. Blip turns video uploads into podcast series through automatic RSS feeds.

Download this free multi-platform program to your computer. Upload pictures to Shape Collage. Choose from different shapes, letters, or numbers in which to create your collage. Embed collage into wikis, blogs, or websites. You can also copy your creation into a powerpoint. Easy to use. Free download so you can work when not online.

Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: Animoto is a great presentation site for people like myself who aren't creatively inclined. It is easy to use and allows the user not to feel overwhelmed. The site incorporates text, visuals (pictures or videos), and sound. This meets generative learning. Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): Easy and not time consuming to use. The product looks very professional.

You can upload photographs (even powerpoints saved as jpegs or gifs) to create a movie of your own. Just add music to further engage your audience. Engaging with the power of a video with music. Easy to use.

This website lets the learner use uploaded pictures as well as pictures from Flickr to tell a story through storybook. It is a great tool for a Language Arts or Social Studies class assignment where the students are the publishers in developing assigned topic to present to the class.

As a former user of TimeGlider, I have experienced its usefulness as a multimedia tool for active cognitive learning. With TimeGlider, the user is able to create an interactive timeline to be designed alone or collaboratively and shared with others. This free tool allows the user to not only control how important an event is based on its size on the timeline, but it also allows the user to link events on the timeline to online videos and to upload pictures to enhance the timeline. The student may begin with an idea of the time period they are creating a timeline for, but they make the choices about what material to include in terms of how many events to include and any extras like videos or pictures. 

Timeglider is web-based timeline software for sharing history and project planning. It can be an interactive guide to users for events like workshops and can be interactive between creator and users for essential and generative purposes. Timeglider is free for limited usage, but then asks for five dollars a month for formidable teacher/student uses. This site is a fine representation of cheap visual technology that gives good visual aid and cognitive understandings of the timeline organization.

This document sharing website allows users to share a large variety of documents for free. The user just has to upload their document to their dropbox and anyone with permission to view their dropbox will have access to the document. The site provides a short tutorial on using dropbox and provides users with a free account with a large storage capacity. For more storage users can upgrade their account or get other users to sign up for a free account. This site does not offer the ability to collaborate in real time, but it supports all file formats.

Animoto allows the user to upload photos and and text as well as music. Just like the use of Glogster, the use of Animoto can be authentic if the assessment is designed properly, the use will be authentic. In an anecdotal way of reporting, I have seen students become excited about the use of Animoto. Animoto is free but does have a premium version.

280 Slides is a site that allows users to create presentations similar to a PowerPoint. In fact, if a PowerPoint show has already been created, it can be uploaded to the site. This tool could be used by workshop participants as they collaborate to create a brief presentation about a concept discussed in the workshop. The fact that this tool is so similar to PowerPoint was a big plus, in addition to the fact that, unlike PowerPoint, when the 280 Slide presentation is completed, it can be easily shared to the Web.

I chose this site because of its ease of use and its numerous relevant features that allow me to create beautiful presentations, store them online for free, and access them from any computer that is connected to the internet