Description: A place to upload Powerpoints and create slidecasts using narration. Why better: Brings together the dual coding ideas of Mayer (2001) with images on Powerpoint slides plus added narration online using slidecast.

Description: A visual collaboration tool for collaborating with others online. Why better: Allows collaborative team work synchronously and asynchronously.

Description: Creates mindmaps with color coding and connections, enhancing brainstorming exercises.  Why better: Mindmaps are embeddable and downloadable for sharing.

Description: Creates graphical representations of related words for free Why better: It's free (several offer free trials only)

Description: Creates wordclouds that emphasize concepts and has advanced editing capabilities. Why better: It's free (several offer free trials only)

Talks about the presences in chapter 14 of the Anderson (2008) text.

Talks about the cognitive presence which is diagrammed in Anderson (2008) page 345

Sweller (2005) discusses changes to long term memory and how instructional design should faciliate changes that support the instructional objectives, not overload it.  Further he discusses how many confuse this with rote learning when it is more than this. Sweller, J. (2005). Implications of cognitive load theory for multimedia learning, In R. Mayer (Ed.). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (pp.19-30). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Mayer speaks about advance organizers in Module 2 video.

How do Mayer's thoughts gel with brain-based research thoughts of Sylwester?