This video tutorial is a part of a multimedia workshop to learn how to use a LAUSD student account. The topic of this tutorial is "How to Create a Google Site". The following are some steps that you will follow as part of this video tutorial: - Log in to your Mymail Account to create a Google Site - Name the site portfolio_firstname_lastname - Choose a theme - Rename the Home page to About Me - Change the layout of the About Me page to a 3 column layout - Insert a picture - Save the page

Google Sites can be used for students to create digital electronic portfolios. These portfolios can be used as authentic assessments because the students can display their work, pictures, videos, add narration, and actively show what they learned. I like this site because it is free, easy to use, and there are many online resources that help the students learn how to create them.

Creating an online photobook is an excellent way to authentically assess your students. Mixbook is a free online resource that can be used to create this photobook. Students can import photos, decorate that pages, choose their own layout, and even order a hard copy. Parents and administrators love to see what the students are doing, and teachers can use the books to visually see what was accomplished and learned. I like Mixbook because it is easy to use, free, and creates great looking photobook "digital electronic portfolios".

Zoho is a free online tool to create presentations that look like PowerPoint presentations. You can create slides, add graphics, sounds, and videos. I like this resource because it is free, easy to use, and creates great looking presentations that can be shared.

Wikispaces is a free resource that allows you to create online presentations. I like this resource because it is free, easy to use, and it create professional looking presentations in a website form.

Webspiration is a great website that allows you to create graphic organizers. It is free, easy to use, and very useful. I like this web resource because it is easy to use and creates very nice graphic organizers.

Inspiration is an excelled software program that helps you create graphic organizers. I like this program more than the others because it allows the user to save the file as a PDF or JPEG file. Many of the other resources do not allow for specialized saving.

This video is a great tutorial on how to use Survey Monkey. It is a great resource for using as a pre-training tool for a multimedia workshop that you may be developing. I liked this tutorial better than the others because it was direct, simple, and organized.

This video teaches you how to use the forms feature in Google Docs. It is a great tool for pre-training because it allows you to acquire information about your workshop attendees. I like this training better than other ones that I looked at because it is instructive, simple, professional, and very useful.

This multimedia presentation is intended for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District to learn how to use and manage their MyMail district computer account. They will learn how to use Gmail, Googledocs, and Google Calendar which are available within their account once logged in.

This website contains a multimedia presentation for parents who want to know how to monitor their child on Facebook. There is an "advice and answers" section, links to resources, and a video presentation that describes how parents can find out what their child is doing on the computer, specifically on Facebook.

This website provides detailed information about internet safety for parents.

This is a fun, interactive activity where parents, teens, or tweens can learn about who can be an internet predator.