* Name of the site: About.com: Presentation Software * URL: http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointadvanced/u/beyondbasics.htm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is as site that explains how to do more that the basics in PP. I like to have a "handbook" for reference, but I really do not want it in printed form so much as I want to be able to get quick answers. This site can serve as that. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). It will allow me to improve my skills in multimedia presentation in PowerPoint.

Presentations * Name of the site: OpenOffice.org * URL: http://download.openoffice.org/ * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This application seems to be a free version of PowerPoint with some different slide templates. Anyone who has used PowerPoint would be able to use this application. It might not look so run-of-the-mill as PP. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). This is free. Looks easy to use for students.

* Name of the site: Graphic.org * URL: http://www.graphic.org/ * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This seems to be a great site for teachers to understand different graphic organizer configurations and to be able to download and alter them. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): This site has usable links (those I explored worked, at any rate). It suggests uses and provides critical questions, suggestions for uses, and strategies

* Name of the site: Virtual Understanding Environment (VUE) * URL: http://vue.tufts.edu/download/index.cfm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is a mind mapping site developed by Tuffs University that is available for the Mac. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): It looks like it is more adaptable that Freemind which I used before and did not like. I haven't built anything yet, but I will use it for a mind map of Web 2.0 functions.

* Name of the site: Wordle * URL: http://www.wordle.net/ * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: As the resource in Module 3 explained, this site allows you to create a word cloud by cutting and pasting text. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): This was truly easy and worked on my Mac. Very simple to use.

* Name of the site: University of Wisconsin-Stout Authentic Assessment * URL: http://www3.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assess.cfm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is an index of sites to help teachers understand and develop authentic assessment, including ways to grade, the need for rubrics, and several articles to make the argument for assessments that are real-world based. The site is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). There are so many resources here. I need to continue to explore the links.

* Name of the site: Authentic Assessment Toolbox * URL: http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This is a great site to help teachers develop an authentic assessment for their students. It will be good in the workshop I am developing on Web. 2.0 from the later days when the participants are thinking on what they will develop. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on). This comes from a knowledgeable source and cites Grant Wiggins.

* Name of the site: Graphic Organizer Links * URL: http://www.nvo.com/ecnewletter/graphicorganizers/ * Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: This site has multiple uses for graphic organizer templates. It also seems to have been developed by Texas educators to connect education with technology. It has links to the other states as well. I intend for the teachers in my workshop to access standards for their state or region, and this site will allow that. * Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): It is so rich in graphic organizers, but it is useful in other ways as well.

This article helped me understand my topic, Web 2.0 better. I needed a sense of what it really means to be able to explain it to a group of teachers

This is a great teacher resource on Hamlet. Makes me wish I was back in the classroom getting read to teach it again.