Blogger This site is a good site for creating a blog. Particpants of my course will be required to create a blog. This blog woud be a generative learning assignment becasue particpants are activly involved. This blog allows for uploads of videos and pictures both of which will be required in particpants' final project. Blogger is a free site and simple to learn and use. Participants will need a Goggle account to have a blogger blog. This blog site has a variety of templates to use in designing their blog.

Wordpress http://wordpress.com/ Participants wll use this site to create their own Worpress blog with multimedia added. This will be a generative learning assignment because the participants will be creating their own blog. The blogs will be designed for their students. I chose this site because it is free and they can use their own e-mail account and not have to create a new Google account. Also Wrodpress is not a site blocked by our school system.

Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/ This site allows users to create a mind map using various different fonts and templates. Webspiration allows for generative learning becasue the participants would be actively involved with the creation. I like this site becasue it is free. The webs can be embedded into blogs and the webs can be worked on collaboratively in a group. I plan to use some collaborative grouping during my presentation. Participants can also view the visual in an outline form for easier construction of the web.

bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/ With this site the participants as well as the instructor can create a mind map. This will be a good for the generative learning becasue the participants would be actively involved in the process. I like this site becasue the mind maps are very easy to create and they are simple in design. Simplicity for the primary teachers is always a plus, because they like to use the infomation with their students as well.

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ This is a free site that can be used to upload a powerpoint presentation. This site develops a learner's essential knowledge of the presentation by allwong them to see and hear the presentation being presented. I chose this site becauce it is free and participants can access it from home or from any computer with internet access.

Slideboom http://www.slideboom.com/ This site will allow me to upload my powerpoint presentation so that the participants will always have access to it without having to have a download. This site is free and plays the slideshow in a video format. This site is a good site for developing the participant's essnetial laerning allowing them to process the infomration form a vairety of ways; visual, and auditory. I chose this site becasue it is free and it can be accessed from any internet site. This will be good for the participants to use as a reference after the presentation.

*Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ This site will allow me to have key words on the screen as the particiapnts enter the room. This site will allow me to make a word cloud, something that all the participants are familiar with becasue they use them with their students already. The font , sizes, and backgrounds can be changed to match the presrntaion theme. * I looked at another word clud generation site and this one offered offered more font and color styles and was easier to use. This site would also allow you to use a website URL to create a Word Clound where the other only allowed text.

Great example of a teacher blog.

Great site to set up ablog for priamry students.

You tube video of reasons to blog. You- Tube Blogging in the Elementary Classroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpKh5GJ3nY This vidoe shows parents, teachers,and students talking about how they use blogs in their classroom. I chose this vidoe because it relates to the grade level of the participants in my group. I would use this video as a pretraining activity because it will give the participants something to be thinking of as the workshop progresses. more from www.youtube.com

This is an overview of setting up a blog. THis uses many graphics for examples.

Great example of how to use a blog with students.