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This graphical portrayal of Bloom's Taxonomy with tech tools is wonderful, and could be a fun activity for a group activity.

The 4Teachers website is the main page that provides links to a variety of different tools that educators can use (for free) to integrate various technologies into the classroom. These tools include QuizStar, RubiStar, NoteStar, and so forth. These tools can allow teachers to create pre-training activities for students in addition to creating other activities for primary essential and generative learning. This site is advantageous in regard to the fact that the tools are free. In addition, there are a various tools that can be applied in many different situations. Quizzes, rubrics, outlines, brainstorming sessions, videos, and for forth can be created and facilitated from this family of sites.

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Reading stories for each week have great tools online to increase comprehension. Online instruction includes: Meet the Author/Illustrator, Literacy Lessons, Research and Inquiry Activities, Language Activities, and Vocabulary/Spelling Activities.

This website allows participants to access and explore a demonstrative Moodle course. It is useful for generative learning, as it offers teachers participating in the workshop the opportunity to experience the course from a student perspective. Also, this demo course allows them to simulate activities that they can manipulate to learn concepts related to the course creation. I have selected this site as it features a demonstrative course that outlines some of Moodle's main features by providing examples of resources and activities. Furthermore, it allows teachers to use simulation to design course activities.

My final website is a blog which reviews and discusses many of the applications that educators could benefit from in their classes. The author of the blog, Gregory Swanson, compiles a comprehensive list of important apps for various facets of the educational community. He also provides tricks and tips geared for the education community. There is also a link to another blog: http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/ which provides a video that helps teachers visualize how they could incorporate the device into their classrooms. These sites would fall into the cognitive activity realm of Mayer's (2009) theory. They are also on the low end of the cognitive activity scale. There is not as much activation of prior knowledge or structure that would enhance the learning, but they do offer information relevant to the education profession.

Webspiration allows the user to create various forms of mindmaps with unlimited design features. The website allows users to work individually or collaboratively online. It also gives you the opportunity to visualize your ideas creatively. All work can also be downloaded and printed if needed. I chose this site because it is very user friendly and can keep the learners interested with its hands-on capabilities.

This site allows you to create custom graphic organizers. There are many templates and lots of clip art to choose from. I like this site because you can upload your graphic organizer as a word document or save it to a web page that others can access.

* Webspiration allows a teacher to create a free Webspiration classroom. The site allows users to create collaborative mind maps that lend themselves to generative learning.

A Course Management System for educators.

Moodle is an open source Learning Management System. It allows educators the opportunity to develop online courses, or to augment their traditional face-to-face course. Activity modules can be created around particular content. Also, Moodle offers various tools for authentic assessment, which may include quizzes, forums, and assignments. Because the workshop will focus on the use of Moodle, the selection of Moodle for authentic assessment activities was an appropriate one.

The topic of my multimedia workshop is on How to Utilize Multimedia to Create Effective Instructions. I plan to use PowerPoint as my multimedia artifact. In Jones (2005) article she establishes the fact that the technology of choice for most projects was PowerPoint. The main reasons for selecting PowerPoint for my multimedia project coincided with what was discussed in this article. PowerPoint is accessible and familiar to most educators and students. It is simple to use, can be created on desktop, visually stimulating, sounds or auditory stimulation can be added and can be use for cognitive abilities. In addition, PowerPoint has presentation versatility because it can be used as an original file, PDF format, and html format. It can also run with videos and have narration added. Finally, the software allows for interactivity. The focus of the multimedia workshop is to create a learner-centered approach to learning instead of a technology approach to learning; the software is used to facilitate this process (Jones 2005, p. 1). Mayer's (2008) active processing is when meaningful learning occurs and learners are engaged in the active cognitive processing during learning and instructors must figure out ways to prime the learners to pay attention to relevant material, and mentally organize the information and integrate the information based on their prior knowledge. The ability to actively process information can be associated students dynamic, collaborative and synergistic construction of significant knowledge within a multi-learning environment. Jones, D. (2009.). PowerPoint with a learning point. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater--19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Retrieved July 10, 2010, from http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/03_37.pdf

This is a fun, interactive activity where parents, teens, or tweens can learn about who can be an internet predator.

The classroom is a dynamic environment with a huge variety of opportunities for showcasing what has been learned in professional development. Sure, writing a lesson plan or a reflection may indicate how well the participant has benefited from PD course material, but to gain an authentic look into what the students are now capable of doing as a result of the teacher's professional development a web 2.0 tool may be more appropriate. An authentic assessment option is the glog. The glog is a way for educators to share what the students have learned and how the objectives from a PD course have been integrated into daily instruction. Plus, students love the multimedia interface and easy to use tools.

Teachers, improve the future with a new way of teaching! Glogster EDU is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. This is an education-safe online environment where teachers can add classes to assign projects using Glogster. Students can use this multimedia tool to explore presentations previously made on a variety of subjects and topics, as well as creating their own glogs.

Glogster allows learners to create an interactive poster, in which they post images, text, music and videos. They can also include links to other websites, including other glogs, to make their project more comprehensive. When used to create a project, this is a deeply learner-centered technology, as it requires a great deal of both behavioral and cognitive activity. Viewing it as part of the workshop will require both kinds of activity as well.

The Trackstar site provides an online container for lesson materials that could also be used for pre-training activities. The site may help students select and organize mental representations of course concepts by facilitating the organization of related content.

Trackstar - This site allows the instructor of a course to bookmark sites where participants can browse prior to the beginning of the course. These sites can require participants to complete pre-training activities to lay the foundation to what will be learned in the course.

Xtimeline www.xtimeline.com The second website that I have chosen to share for authentic assessment activities is Xtimeline. Xtimeline is an online timeline creator that allows users to plot dates, events, plot details and other linear occurrences. Xtimeline is a great tool for authentic assessments because the students create the timeline from scratch and build on their timeline as they continue to work on it. Xtimeline also provides access to previously created timelines for research and background purposes. Xtimeline is capable of creating advanced, organized and visually advanced timelines for free. I especially appreciate the fact that Xtimeline lets members (membership is free) upload pictures to add to the timeline making them much more appealing and interesting to look at. I like Xtimeline because it helps me to observe the linear thinking process of my students. I have used Xtimeline for plot diagramming lessons as well as biography mapping. Xtimeline is a resource that I believe social studies teachers would find extremely useful and purposeful in their classrooms. I also like the physical set up of Xtimeline the tabs, categories and search engine make using this site easy for any user no matter their experience.

The processes of active learning in a library environment

This website will allow the learners to become familiar with the tool they will be using to add voice to their presentation. This website offers tutorials and activities that allow them to become familiar with the features Audacity offers.

As I continue to ponder the idea of community service and work place learning, I have come to the understanding that the project would serve students better than professionals. This site, http://www.kidactivities.net/, is fun and interactive dedicated to the learner and centered in engaging children through a variety of activities. The community service aspect of the site is full of behavioral activities, but in this case, learning is taking place as teachers can help students integrate their prior knowledge with information obtained. Though I continue to agree with the video in our module 1 resource related to methods not media; however, the media in this case will improve the methods used for a variety of students and styles of learning.

This is a blog about online authentic assessment activities. It contains numerous useful tips and examples of assessment activities. There are no extraneous processing concerns with this blog

Brainshark allows instructors and students to create presentations that include collaboration, audio, and animation. It allows for active commenting which means it can be utilized for either essential or generative learning needs. I like Brainshark because it is extendable, easily shared, built in the cloud, and has user levels ranging from free to pro based upon your needs.

This video shows how a teacher integrates the interactive Promethean Board to engage her Geometry students through differentiating instruction. The YouTube video offers multiple suggestions in creating a learner-center classroom to actively engage general education students, in addition to students with learning disabilities.

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.