*This site reminds educators of what our "Digital Immigrants" are expecting *A Picture is worth 1,000 words. This site will motivate teachers to engage in infusing technology into their curriculum.

*This is companion material to Catherine Cennamo's text " Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach, 1st Edition *The Game plan will keep instructors organized as they develop technology rich plans.

*This is an interactive graphic organizer site with a free option http://www.gliffy.com/prodcomparison.shtml *You might also want to check out http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/ (note there is a fee) The advantage to teach-nology is the ease with which you can write on the graphic organizers. Also lots of free pdf downloads available at Freeology http://www.freeology.com/graphicorgs/

*Mindmapping tools assist learners with connecting and organizing their learning and give instructors a view of where students may have misrpresentations. Concept maps as assessments: http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/modules/concept/default.asp *Webspiration allows students to use various icons for representing their material while it seamlessly creates outlines in the background.

*Create slide presenations on the web. *Prezi makes slide sharing much more powerful as you are able to zoom in on specific areas of a slide for emphasis.

*Create interactive online posters *Glogster is where creativity and technology meet. It gives students opportunities to creatively present material.

*Using ePortfolios is a powerful tool in showing student growth during a course. Google sites allows the creater to devlop collaborative wiki pages. *There are multitudes of tools available for creating ePortfolios including blogs (Blogger), wikis (Wikispaces), and site building tools (Yola) all of which are a part of my PLN. I've chosen GoogleSites as a standard and ease of interfacing with all of the other Google apps.

*Create assessment rubrics *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)

I recall the drill and skill activities of the first computers in my classroom. They were similar to the flashcards previously used with the added advantage of bouncy smiley faces entertaining the students' correct response. The sites shared above go far beyond such response strengthening multimedia. The Chinese proverb goes, "Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." A proverb for multimedia learning might say tell me information I learn for a day, show me information I learn for a week, teach me to find and use information I learn for a lifetime. This course will model this metaphor for the teachers who will in turn model it for their students as they construct their own knowledge.

Many students do not have the experiences to visualize concepts taught in math classes. Sites such as National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, allows teachers to "assist the learner in this sense-making process" (Mayer, 2009, p. 17). These concept tutorials promote both behavioral and cognitive activity that leads to meaningful learning outcomes (Mayer, 2009, p. 23). The site also affords the teachers opportunities to modify lessons to meet the needs of individual students.

Graphing calculators improve student attitudes and engagement with math content leading to a better understanding of the concepts. "…Knowledge-construction view is that multimedia learning is a sense-making activity" (Mayer, 2009, p. 17). Tools such as graphing calculators allow students to connect with their prior knowledge in order to make sense of algebraic equations. Teachers need tutorials available from sites such as this for both themselves and their students when infusing graphing calculators in the classroom.

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