PRE-TRAINING

http://www.wordle.net/
This website site creates word clouds based on the text you input. It can be used by learners from pre-training vocabulary or the identification of important concepts. I chose this website because it is very easy to use

http://goanimate.com/
This website site allows you to create do it yourself animations and includes a drag and drop 2D software with an easy to use navigation system. It can be used by learners allowing them to create simple animations on elementary concepts that will be introduced. I chose this website because of the simple animations that can be created by the software.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

https://bubbl.us/
This website allows users to quickly create mind maps that can be saved and shared immediately. It is an excellent graphical organization tool which allows users to create patterns and relationships between ideas by a logical pattern. I chose this website because of the flexibility of saving and sharing immediately created mind maps that can be edited.


http://www.mindmeister.com/
This website uses icons and the ability to add notes to the nodes and can export your completed map into various file formats, to include PDF. Mindmeister is an ungraded version of bubbl.us with several augmented functionality features at the cost of simplicity. I chose this website because of the similar features as bubbl.us with a few additional features.

PRESENTATION

www.wordpress.com
This website allows learners to present what they are learning and making it available for others to read and critique. This provides positive constructive feedback in order to improve your presentation. I chose this website because of its familiarity and I also have a wordpress account.

http://prezi.com/index/
This website allows users to upload presentations, share them with a specific learning community, easy to create and share. This provides the opportunity for learners to create and share creative presentations. I chose this website because of how effective it is to create and share presentations, keeps it simple.

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY
http://www.spinscape.com/
This website is mapping tool that allows learners to create a map of the concept(s). It provides different templates along with rubrics that create structure for the concept(s). I chose this website because it allows learners to create their individual map(s) based on templates.


http://www.mywebspiration.com/
This website provides learners with an outline view that can guide students; provide a collaborative and authentic assessment that is team-based. Every team member can edit or provide positive constructive feedback to the map which provides great collaboration of the assessment. I chose this website because of the effective collaboration it provides from the team to improve the overall assessment activity.


Reference

Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.

The three web sites that I selected that include multimedia artifacts for active learning: 1) http://www.learner.org/ The learner.org website is a cognitive activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site focuses on using multimedia technology as an aid to human cognition (Mayer, p. 13 2009). It uses film clips to demonstrate the practical applications of various mathematical concepts to real life situations. It builds a connection of what the students are studying to a concrete example (visual) to create a clearer mental picture form prior knowledge to new knowledge that is being discovered. 2) http://pearsonmylabandmastering.com/ The My Lab web site is a behavioral activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site focuses on rewarding students for the correct responses (excellent) or punished for the incorrect ones (try again). The underlying metaphor is that of drill-and-practice system, so multimedia is a vehicle for rewarding correct responses and punishing incorrect ones (Mayer, p.15, 2009). A student receives immediate feedback positive or negative and strengthens a response system to proceed or provide reinforcement of the content. 3) http://webgraphing.com/ The web graphing web site is a cognitive activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site provides engagement between the student and the graphing calculator. Multimedia learning is a sense-making activity in which the learner seeks to build a coherent mental representation from the presented material (Mayer, p. 17, 2009). The students actively engage with the graphing calculator along with the teacher

Here are my links to my working and presentation wikis: 1) http://klein-educ8847-working-wiki.wikispaces.com/ 2) http://klein-educ8847-presentation-wiki.wikispaces.com/