This site includes rubrics for cooperative learning, research reports, project base learning, as well as links to many free online testing tools. These resources can be used for essential learning, as they helps teachers understand and develop authentic assessments. I have selected this website because it offers authentic assessments for a variety of subjects and levels.

Moodle is an open source Learning Management System. It allows educators the opportunity to develop online courses, or to augment their traditional face-to-face course. Activity modules can be created around particular content. Also, Moodle offers various tools for authentic assessment, which may include quizzes, forums, and assignments. Because the workshop will focus on the use of Moodle, the selection of Moodle for authentic assessment activities was an appropriate one.

Camtasia is a screen capturing and editing tool, allowing users to create interactive videos, tutorials and presentations. The site includes an overview videos, as well as free online tutorials. They are great for essential and generative learning, as they facilitate a better understanding of how to use the tool and help reduce essential cognitive load. This tool is an exceptional one for creating multimedia materials and presentations.

This is a great presentation tool, allowing user to create and share presentation online and offline. Prezi is one of the pest presentation tools I have found, as it allows the import of various multimedia materials, including PowerPoint slides, images, videos, pdf files. Also, it facilitates the creation of storylines using frames. The site also includes access to millions of prezis created by other users on various topics.

This site features a video that allows participants to become familiar with the Moodle interface. It can be used for essential learning, as it provides an overview of the Moodle's features. This is a great pre-training site, as it features a short video that is well-organized and is effective at introducing users to Moodle.

This website allows participants to access and explore a demonstrative Moodle course. It is useful for generative learning, as it offers teachers participating in the workshop the opportunity to experience the course from a student perspective. Also, this demo course allows them to simulate activities that they can manipulate to learn concepts related to the course creation. I have selected this site as it features a demonstrative course that outlines some of Moodle's main features by providing examples of resources and activities. Furthermore, it allows teachers to use simulation to design course activities.

Moodle demo site
http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/view.php?id=7
This website allows participants to access and explore a demonstrative Moodle course. It is useful for generative learning, as it offers teachers participating in the workshop the opportunity to experience the course from a student perspective. Also, this demo course allows them to simulate activities that they can manipulate to learn concepts related to the course creation. I have selected this site as it features a demonstrative course that outlines some of Moodle's main features by providing examples of resources and activities. Furthermore, it allows teachers to use simulation to design course activities.

Moodle Interface Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2VEQfTTNZk&feature=related
This site features a video that allows participants to become familiar with the Moodle interface. It can be used for essential learning, as it provides an overview of the Moodle's features. This is a great pre-training site, as it features a short video that is well-organized and is effective at introducing users to Moodle.

Working Wiki: http://lochner8847workingwiki.wikispaces.com/

Presentation Wiki: http://lochner8847presentationwiki.wikispaces.com

Discovery Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
This website offers multimedia curricular resources across all subject areas and grade levels. Its interactive tutorials are engaging, and have great potential for enhancing teaching results through greater information retention and knowledge construction by students. Designed to support multiple learning styles and modalities, the artifacts are reflective of a learner-centered approach view of instruction (Mayer, 2009). Because it features videos and animations that allow for the presentation of content both visually and auditorially, this website takes into account the learners' information-processing activities (Mayer, 2009). This delivery approach is consistent with a cognitive theory of learning.

SuccessMaker
http://www.successmaker.com
SuccessMaker features interactive educational games that teachers may use to augment the delivery of their instruction. These multimedia artifacts are interactive, allow students to make connection with their prior knowledge, and they support scaffolding strategies. Moreover, they support differentiated instruction, and allow teachers to guide each individual student on how to best process the information presented. Thus, this website is learner-centered, and supports active cognitive learning based on active instructional methods (Mayer, 2009).

BrainPop
http://brainpop.com
The site is an animated educational site that includes over a thousand interactive videos featuring curriculum-based content from various K-12 subject areas. These videos deliver multimedia instructional messages that are presented in conversational style. By delivering multimedia messages in both a visual and auditorial format, these artifacts support students' dual cognitive processing in the working memory (Mayer, 2009). In addition to the instructional videos, which also include close captioning, the site features games and simulations that students can use to reinforce the information featured in the movies. Thus, these multimedia artifacts help learners to organize and integrate new content and prior knowledge (Mayer, 2009). The site promotes a student-centered view and fosters meaningful learning by supporting learners' active cognitive processing (Mayer, 2009).
 
Reference
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.