This website offers alternative authentic assessments as well as a toolbox for teachers. Even though this is my alma mater, The information presented here is proven to work for educators.

This site gives an in-depth discussion of authentic assessment and the difference between it and traditional assessment. It includes rubrics and examples, and offers how to apply authentic assessments to portfolios and workshops. I feel this complete approach is important when starting to use authentic assessments, so as to stay true to the purpose.

This is a blog. The author covers everything about e-learning and presentations. He uses PowerPoint to create most of his content and offers many tips on creating presentations. I have been following this blog for about three years now and am amazed at the information I glean from his posts.

M62 is a corporate website that offers everything about presentations based on their success of creating presentations. Some of their customers are BP, Hilton, CISCO, Citigroup, Microsoft, and Sony. I think their statement on the home page sums it up: "It's not just what you say in the presentation that counts, it's what they pay attention to and what they remember that makes the difference"

Enchanted Learning.com is every bit as robust in what it offers as graphic.org. I chose this website because it has organizers listed by subject area.

This website provides a chart for determining the type of graphic organizer to use. It also provides examples of many different types and styles of organizers. This is the most complete website I found on graphic organizers.

This site provides information on getting images into your pre-training handouts . Give a step by step process for getting images into a variety of materials. There are also additional pages devoted to teaching and authentic materials and sample lesson plans

This site guides you through creating pre-training content in a reverse engineering manner. I found this simple and complete. It offers definitions of terms and several specific types of pre-training

This presentation provides information for instructors wishing to incorporate presentations into their course material and still provide ADA compliance. The video provided instructions for checking presentations created in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for accessibility and how to correct those issues. This again is an example of Mayer's dual channel learning.

This video includes closed captioning with audio and video, allowing the learner to experience how a screen reader works and sounds, again following Mayer's dual channel theory, fostering meaningful learning through lecture and example. Understanding how a screen reader works and sounds provides instructors with a deeper understanding of the challenges those with sight impairments must overcome in learning online content. This allows instructors to create content, providing more effective knowledge transfer through this technology.

This webinar suggests 10 reasons for incorporating ADA compliance. It provides active learning based on Mayer's dual processing incorporating audio and visual channels. However, the active learning of this presentation is low. Much of the information presented contains extraneous information and this is a very long, slow-moving webcast. Even still, the information contained is useful and appropriate.