Authorstream is the hosting site for uploading and storage of PowerPoint (PPT) presentations. Participants can then download these presentations as video for editing into one seamless presentation of a mixture of PPT and video for uploading to YouTube or other video hosting site. This is initially a free site for users, but you will find it soon necessary to pay the annual Authorstream Pro fee of 30 dollars or $2.50 a month that is, if you want to convert PPT presentations to video formatting. Authorstream offers other significant options in the Pro package that helps you do plenty more with your PPT creations. This is the best suited site for supporting Microsoft PPT for it is user friendly and quite common.

Wikispaces claims it "…makes managing your class a breeze, with tools to handle day-to-day work and features to tackle the special activities you've only dreamed of." It allows a presenter a venue for organizing, navigating through, and presenting multimedia in a learning management system (LMS) type environment. It is engaging and pace oriented while also being accessible and editable to anyone the creator allows to enlist. Wikispaces creates a presentation forum for learners to build knowledge at their own pace. It is free to users in education.

Glogster EDU calls itself …"the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond." It allows a presenter to overlay many different types of multimedia in a single presentation forum. It is good for essential and generative learning by keeping audience attention for a presentation in a modern capacity for viewing and listening. This site costs about 30 dollars per year for the single license package. It not for the cost, it could be the premier site for just about any presentation.

Timeglider is web-based timeline software for sharing history and project planning. It can be an interactive guide to users for events like workshops and can be interactive between creator and users for essential and generative purposes. Timeglider is free for limited usage, but then asks for five dollars a month for formidable teacher/student uses. This site is a fine representation of cheap visual technology that gives good visual aid and cognitive understandings of the timeline organization.

WebspirationPRO is a productivity tool that builds visual thinking and cloud computing images. These images are easily sharable and collaborations can be facilitated. Elaborate concept maps can be created in a variety of ways and additional comments can be called-up on each essential topic which helps generate better understandings. There is a free trial account that you will eventually have to pay a very reasonable annual fee. It is well worth the dough for it is a breeze to learn and use.

Jing is a screencasting computer program which takes a picture of a computer screen and instantly provides it a URL and is uploaded to the web. It can then be shared instantly between collaborators. Jing offers capture, history, and more in the little transparent "sun" at the top of the screen. A free account can be set-up and software can be downloaded. This will provide the live presenter with opportunities for anytime essential screenshots for projection during the workshop. The screenshot will generate inquiry into the software programs.

YouTube is the choice again, but this time for assessment purposes. YouTube is the most popular of the hosting sites and is the one student's are currently most familiar with. After a video has been developed, edited, and stored in a computer, YouTube offers a place to store your video online. Along with this, it automatically delivers an embedding code for the creators to embed into a movie widget of the presentation venue chosen for disclosure which is essential for evaluation. Furthermore, video in these online presentation venues work for generative learning by allowing for comments and more multimedia by connecting to other relevant knowledge.

YouTube and TeacherTube both house produced videos ready for embedding into various multimedia venues. They have search options for locating promotion and how-to videos that can certainly be used for essential and generative learning. The primary difference is that TeacherTube is meant for educational professionals. Capabilities are to spark initial interest with promotional video(s) and to complete necessary account logistics for pre-training to practical use. A free account can be set-up by anyone.

Presentation Wiki used for presenting summative assignment of multimedia workshop for streamlining video training for K-12 instructors. Here is the link to my Presentation Wiki @
http://presentationwikieduc-7107.wikispaces.com/

Working Wiki used for building multimedia workshop for streamlining video training for K-12 instructors. Here is the link to my Working Wiki @
http://workwikieduc-7107.wikispaces.com/

This Web-site lists available Web 2.0 packages available for K-12 use and delivers hyperlinks to get where needed. (Informational)