This site at Boise State University describes pre-training and introduces the elements for multimedia, Mayer's principles, it gives definitions for several elements including contiguity, modality, redundancy, segmentation and pre-training.

This site is an informational site at Washington University that gives information on producing video products. The site covers a tutorial, pre-production, production post-production and marketing, and a section on best practices, there you will find a list of Mayer's principles including the pre-training principle. The site did not have very much information on pre-training, but it is a useful site for questions on video production

SlideSnack gives users the ability to upload and shre their presentations online as well as creating them on the site. Presentation made in software like PowerPoint can be uploaded into the system. They allow for adding voice to the presentation to make in their terms a "slidecast". The slideshows can also be exported into a video.

Zoho has the ability to keep share online documents using their software. The presentation software has an easy to use interface that allow for construction of presentations with graphics and animations. The shared files can be shared and exported into different document types, or zipped for use in other programs.

Site explains what authentic assessment is, why to do it and how to do it. It lists several examples including standards, tasks, rubrics, and portfolios. It examines the characteristics of authentic tasks, and types of authentic tasks to use instead of selected response type assessment.

Funderstanding give a definition of authentic assessment and provides a list of what should be the goals of authentic assessment activities, including, "requiring students to develop responses rather than select from predetermined options and teaches students to evaluate their own work".

Thinkport Graphic organizer page has examples for several different graphic organizers such as character maps, concept map, cornel notes, compare/contrast, Venn diagrams, and many more. The most interesting thing about graphic organizer section is that it allow you to open each of the graphic organizers in three different formats…HTML, PDF, and Word.

The Inspiration site's graphic organizers pages not only have several different types of graphic organizers available they also define what graphic organizers are and explains possible uses of the different graphic organizers. Although they are trying to sell software to produce some of these it is still a great resource.

Celtx is a film and video pre-production program, that allows for script writing, and storyboarding production tools that can be used as standalone or online. The storyboarding portion of the software is where most of my emphasis was, as it is a great tool for creating storyboards for digital storytelling. The program can be used on Mac's PCs, and iPads for adding mobile capability.

Jing is a screen capture program that can combine pictures and recorded audio. This is program is like a scaled down Camtasia, and is not as powerful, but also does not involve the cost of Camtasia. The screen capture and voice capture functions do work as advertised. Jing can capture anything displayed on your computer screen, pictures, video being played, movements of the mouse etc, the final product can be saved for further use, shared online, or emailed to others.

Xtranormal is an online site where you can make movies by combing graphical actors with text to type in a script to be used, or record directly. The scenes then can be acted out and recorded, used online or downloaded. The video maker allows for the addition of background music and or sounds, different camera angles, and movement and gestures of the actors. This is a great program that can be used by teachers and students alike for digital storytelling. Teachers that subscribe to the pay site can set up a classroom where each of their students will also have access to the site.