This workshop addresses a sequential guide to incorporating activities at a workshop centered on assessments. Comparable to the other sites, it fosters generative processing by providing text and captioned pictures.
This website is a tutorial that goes over the physical layout of a 6th grade classroom. It addresses essential components such as content related material, student work and student resources.
This website is an article that addresses some tips and "To Dos" for people who plan to do educational presentations. It discusses essential aspects such as theme, timing and delivery. Presenters reading this article can take whatever tidbits of information they like and disregard the others. So the allowance of flexibility is what fosters generative processing.
This website shows hot to create a customized organized chart in Microsoft Power Point 2007. As the speaker gives verbal directions, she clicks on the relevant tabs to serve as a model. The dual coding enhances generative processing of essential concepts.
This website shows how to create a customized organized chart in Microsoft Word 2007. The verbal directions that correlate with the visual modeling foster generative processing of essential information. In addition, workshop participants may wish to personalize or modify graphic organizers to fit within their individual classrooms.
This site provides a video tutorial on how to create a Gmail account. It is essential learning for workshop participants who will be expected to participate in Google shared documents throughout the workshop activities. The tutorial fosters generative processing since it incorporates both verbal and pictorial directions.
This site outlines every aspect of planning pre-workshop activities from the venue to the expenditures. Essential processing is fostered by a suggestion of tools that can be used to introduce key concepts prior to training. In terms of generative processing, the site has suggestions for incorporating multimedia activities. This site would mainly be used by a person who is planning to present at a workshop. It would not be used for presentation purposes.
This website has various resources for teachers who wish to organize their classrooms. The website focuses on behavioral activity since many of the suggestions are projected to result in the teacher feeling less overwhelmed upon implementing these suggested ideas. There is clearly what Mayer (2009) would refer to as a learner-centered design since many of the included links focus on how learners can play an active role in contributing to classroom organization. Furthermore, there are suggestions with regards to how various items should be placed to accommodate the diverse learning needs of students.
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