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Websites for Creating Multimedia - 8 views

started by Roxanne Wright on 09 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
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    Pretraining
    http://www.themint.org/
    The Mint.org provides multimedia based lessons for students. It also provides a definition for business terms by placing your cursor over the words that are highlighted. Students can also play games that teaches strategies for dealing with specific financial issues and problems of real life.

    The Mint.org provides great ideas for use in personal finance lessons of various topics. It a great website to use to glean technology infusion ideas for lesson created for F2F learners and online learners. This a good springboard exploration for business educators looking for ideas for technology integration in the business classroom

    http://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow/home/50-ways-to-anchor-technology
    50 Ways to Integrate Technology: Ways to Anchor Technology in Your Classroom
    This website provides so many resources for planning and actually integrating technology in any classroom. It lists the websites and gives a brief description of what the website does.

    I chose this resource because it could actually be given as a handout or presented as an animated Power Point with voice added to promote active engagement by the teachers attending the workshop.

    Graphic Organizer
    http://www.mind42.com/
    Mind42
    This website allows the user to be static or as dynamic as one desires to be. You can create an interactive mind map that expands with just one click. You can add graphics to further communicate the message of the content delivered.

    I chose this site because of its versatility.

    http://cf.inspiration.com/prodev/index.cfm?fuseaction=training
    Inspiration is pretty easy to use and it built with the educator in mind. It has ready make educational tips and a video tutorial for step by step creation and ease of use of the site.

    I chose this site because it caters to educators and learners.

    Presentation
    Wix
    http://www.wix.com/flash_websites/websites_91?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bi_us_website^z_pp_creating-3&experiment_id=%2Bwebsites%20%2Bcreating^b^11004549783^1t1&gclid=CJ6Ml4rjoKwCFcya7QodfEBxCg
    Wix.com
    Wix provides an online tutorial for use. It also has a demo that uses animation and text to teach the basic use of the site.

    I chose the site because of its ease of use, free of charge, and capability of expanded to a more complex environment for graphic and audio manipulation. The website also allows for interactive content and not just visualization of words and text.

    www.teachertube.com
    Teachertube allows the educator to host videos for viewing by the students. It a great tool for embedding video into an online course website for asynchronous viewing outside of the classroom.

    I chose teachertube because it is teacher friendly and not blocked by most public schools website filters.

    Authentic Assessment Activity
    Online Porfolio
    CarbonMade.com
    http://carbonmade.com/
    Carbon made allow for portfolio creation without the knowledge of code writing. The teacher/student can create and host their portfolio for viewing by others online. Carbonmade provides a demo to help with the features of the site and also has templates for easy use and design.

    I chose this one because of its simple, but effective way for hosting portfolios of all kinds.

    Read, Write, Think.org
    http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/creating-online-community-through-30671.html
    Readwritethink.org is designed especially for educators and learner. It allows for portfolio creation that is specifically designed to accommodate lesson plans and other educational resources.

    I chose this site because of its versatile resource available to help the user create educationally rich portfolios.
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Multimedia Artifacts - 3 views

started by Roxanne Wright on 19 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
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