Quizilla is useful for essential and generative learning. It allows users to create quizzes, poems, stories, games, and other creative artifacts for posting online. The resource can be used for organizing ideas in the form of checkpoint quizzes or for demonstration understanding through more creative forms of knowledge demonstration such as poems, games, etc. I chose this site because it offered a wide range of choices.
Classmarker offers online quiz preparation and scoring. This tool can promote essential learning, if used appropriately. Quizzes can be embedded into websites allowing users to include periodic checkpoints that willprompt students to stop and organize their thoughts about the content provided up to that point. I chose this tool because it allows users to embed quiz into their websites.
Voki can be used for pretraining. Students can create avartars and record their own voices delivering speeches. It promotes essential learning because it can be used to introduce important concepts before a lesson begins. I chose this site because it allowed users to overlay their voices, and it is a reputable site.
Flashcard Machine can be used for essential learning by offering users the opportunity to create online pretraining artifacts. These flashcards can contain important vocabulary, names, formulae, etc. that can prepare learners for the upcoming lesson. I chose this tool because it is a reputable site and offers several features that can enhance the final product such as attached quizzes.
SmartDraw offers a free Graphic Organizer Tool that allows users to edit graphic organizers. This resource is available as a free download, initially. This is a useful resource because it promotes essential learning by allowing users to organize their thoughts. It can also promote generative learning as users manipulate the graphic organizers to illustrate their understanding of specific topics. I chose this resource because it allows users to easily edit the graphic organizers.
Eduplace provides free graphic organizers that users can modify to fit their needs. These graphic organizers promote essential learning because it aids in the organization of content. I chose this site because of its wide variety of graphic organizer types and because it was part of a reputable organization, Houghton Mifflin publishers.
Google groups provides a wide range of robust tools that are useful for essential and generative learning. Specifically, the online presentation tool mimics PowerPoint but is capable of allowing online collaboration and sharing. The presentation promotes essential learning because users can produce presentations that help to organize content. Generative learning is also possible if users provide the presentations to learners for them to markup or develop further with their own ideas. I chose this tool because it is part of a reputable site and offers a wide variety of tools.
Sliderocket's free version can be used to create vivid online presentations for assessments. It promotes generative learning because students can use it to present final products that reflect their understanding. I chose this site because of the flexibility avaiable for its presentations and its reputable nature.
Thie video is a demonstration of one teacher utilizing a project based learning approach to teaching engineering. The video shows the teacher and students and incorporates voice over from a narrator. The narrator points out features of a project based learning approach. It is part of an instructional effort that begins on the pbl-online.org home page.