This is the best resource for authentic assessment activities for my multimedia workshop. Teachers that participate in my workshop will have to be able to utilize the performance standards from GA and incorporate some of the authentic assessments from those standards. This site is a good resource for all of my teachers.

This website provides ways to and justifications for incorporating authentic assessments into the classroom environment. It provides examples of traditional assessments and provides examples of what an authentic assessement would look like. In addition, it provides ideas for implementing authentic assessments and guidelines for genterating them. This site would be useful to teachers that are new to incorporating authentic assessments within the classroom.

Elluminate Live allows teachers/students to work in synchronous and asynchronous environments. It also allows teachers to create interactive learning opportunities by utilizing a SmartBoard or ActivBoard. The only problem is that you have to purchase a subscription to the software, but you can use a 30 day free trial to create the presentation.

Webspiration is an interactive web-based graphic organizer generator. It is a wonderful way to create graphic organizers that can also be used during presentations. It is easy to use and allows teachers to hyperlink out to other sites to help students understand concepts better. The best part about Webspiration is that it allows groups/individuals to work collaboratively and share their ideas.

Teacher Vision is a good site to print off graphic organizers that are already created. It allows teachers to focus the type of graphic organizer to the age level of their students. This will be helpful because I am dealing with teachers that teach grade levels K-5 and students' with special needs.

Camtasia allows you to create interactive videos easily. The most alluring factor of this site is the fact that "… you can create interactive training and support videos that are on-demand for instant viewing. Screencasts are quick, easy, and inexpensive to produce. They're perfect for rolling out new software, orienting new staff, showing customers how to use your product, or establishing a "self-help" desk" (Camtasia, 2011).

This site, like most reading series, provides support for both teachers and students. However, the most intriguing part of this site is that it develops students' cognitive abilities by building prior knowledge about each author, each story's subject matter, and vocabulary skills. In addition, it supports learning outside of traditional classroom walls by providing access to web-based field trips that correlate with individual story's concepts.

Education City is an interactive website that helps students develop skills within Reading/Language Arts, Math, and Science classrooms. This site provides support for these subject areas by incorporating educational games and interactive lessons for teachers. Teachers can first introduce or review a concept as a whole/small group activity using their interactive whiteboards. Then, students can complete individualized activities on the website, or they can complete worksheets printed off from the site. The website correlates with state standards and is a great tool to use as a Response to Intervention (RTI) programs because it allows the teacher to track individual students' progress in each subject area. Education City is a learner-centered application because it focuses on cognitive growth of individual students by allowing teachers to differentiate instruction and provide support for special needs students.

Starfall is an interactive site that helps students to learn how to read. Its primary goals are to help kindergarteners develop phonemic awareness, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and vocabulary skills; however, it can also be used to help older students with special needs develop these skills as well. By integrating Starfall's activities, teachers meet the requirement of implementing learner-centered activities and are able to meet students' cognitive needs when learning how to read.