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authorSTREAM is an online tool that will convert timed or narrated PowerPoint presentations to video and retain most settings applied to the original slide show. Also, the videos can be downloaded or posted to various locations online and linked to via blogs, wikis, and other Web sites. Learners can benefit from the variety of features offered such as retaining transitions and special effects to capture attention and the use of video and narration adheres to dual coding principles. By combining those features, complex material can be presented in a manner that assists learners generative cognitive load. I found this tool to be better than others given its simplicity and the fact that it retains transitions and animations. The overall quality of the output is quite good also and the use of the tool is fairly straight forward.

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.

Like Google Presenter, Authorstream allows users to upload and share presentations. This can be used by instructors to assess student integration and generative learning. Authorstream allows users a public space for broad distribution and visibility of their shared presentation. This is important for students as they prepare to leave academia and enter the professional world. In addition, students can easily embed and share their presentations in blogs and other social media. Finally, Authorstream more easily integrates audio and animation when compared to other online presenting formats.

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.

Useful site that gives overview of digital storytelling process, including some powerful examples. The site is generative in that it prompts the reader to apply the learning with some quality story prompts. It breaks the process into 10 basic steps, and it includes storyboard samples, needed hardware/software, publishing tips, and more.

Thinking Worlds is a software application that makes the creation of virtual worlds relatively simple in comparison to other applications. Users can design and publish virtual worlds as simple or as complex as necessary for given projects. In circumstances where the training is geared around more "hands on" initiatives, or where participants will participate remotely, virtual worlds can provide more interaction and context for learning. This type of simulated environment is often very expensive to develop and very complicated to manage. As the technology improves, however, innovative applications such as Thinking Worlds make the process much more efficient and cost-effective.

Lectora is a flash-based application that allows you to create more interactive, engaging presentations. When compared to PowerPoint, the application seems to have far more depth and capabilities, allowing the user to design and build fully integrated presentations. PowerPoint and similar applications, while valuable in some regard, tend to be boring for participants to view. In addition, it is at times difficult to create interactions in these applications. Lectora is specifically designed to be more engaging and interactive, both when viewed independently by participants, and when employed at the group level in a training.

Description: Creates many artifacts here by which creators can be assessed in workshop content Why better: More than one type of artifact creation available at one website especially helpful to those unfamiliar with the web.

Help kids put ideas and notes in order with any of these 33 graphic organizers. With names like Clock, Garden Gate, and Ice-Cream Cone, your students are sure to find more fun in sorting out their gained knowledge to find connections. These are printable or ideal to use with an interactive white board together. This web site is non-interactive on its own online as these are static visuals only. Essential learning comes together for younger learners with this website's offerings.

This service allows you to create video slideshows similar to other video tools but with the added ease of drag and drop capability. Feel free to move your sequence around to your liking, and add text to the images. One sticking point is the offering of only a single soundtrack, no choice unless you upload your own music too. You can incorporate more than one audio import to your creation. Stupeflix is an essential learning tool for sharing information.

This video creation tool allows users to use their own videos and photos combined with Masher's library of video clips from BBC Motion Gallery adding special effects to traditional slide show information sharing. You can add words and music along with rips and curls to keep attention on your content. Unlike many downloaded applications such as iMovie and MovieMaker, this is all free, online, and instantly shareable via Facebook, My Space, email, and more. Build up your essential learning information simply by jazzing it using Masher.

Videoscribe allows the user to create unique, marker-board style animations and organizers without the time and cost of more professional examples seen on RSAnimate. It can be used by students to demonstrate their integration of knowledge, or by teachers to help students see the integration of concepts. Videoscribe is better than its alternatives because it is free, easy to use, and can be adapted to almost any need. In addition, it is available on the iOS.

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* Brief Description:  Edmodo is a suite of tools that allows for threaded discussions, quizzes, assignments, and more that is specifically designed for education.     * Brief Explanation: My workshop is based on instructing the participants how to use Edmodo in the classroom.  An appropriate authentic assessment would have them creating their own material in Edmodo.          

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* This is an actual wiki of a second grade class. * This wiki is more advanced and shows the participants the possibilities of a classroom wiki.

* This is a sixth grade class wiki. This wiki shows prime examples of this which can be included on a class wiki. Supply list, teacher e-mails, pictures, homework, parent notifications, and much more. This wiki will give participant lots of ideas of what to include on their wiki.

The Math textbooks are available online with content identical to the student books. Education Place includes a Math Glossary, Games, Brain Teasers, Extra Practice, Homework Help, and More. Both of these websites are used with each unit or lesson in Reading or Math. It can also be accessed at home by parents and students. Some games included in the sites might provide some behavioral activity, however, it is general More cognitive in nature. The learning is presented through a website used via iPads, computer, or interactive white board, however it is learner-centered on the standards and objectives directly correlated with the units and lessons being studied at school in Reading or Math.

Dr. Barrett's (n.d.) webpage presents an introduction to the types of ePortfolios in a learner-centered approach. The website requires cognitive activity and capitalizes on the use of multimedia to present the essential content; and it does so following instructional design principles as recommended by Mayer (2009). Beginning with an anticipatory set to activate the learner's prior knowledge, the lesson page begins by asking learners to think about their own personal use of portfolios. Immediately following, the essential material elements are presented in a cartoon image, capitalizing on the benefits of dual coding (Id.), using both images and key words to help learners pay attention and select appropriate information. The image also relies on spatial contiguity (Id.) in its presentation format. This webpage itself would fit into Mayer's (Id.) use of multimedia as "information acquisition." However, coupled with a reflective activity, learners would be able to make more integrated sense of the types of portfolios available and which types would be most suited for their particular needs. References: Barrett, H. (n.d.). ePortfolios and Google Apps. [Webpage]. Retrieved from http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/blog-entry-eportfolios-and-googleapps Mayer, R. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

PhET Interactive Simulations (http://phet.colorado.edu/) allow students to see and practice complex science concepts that they are working on in class and see them actually performed. These simulations offer students the opportunity to try things out in a simulation before constructing their own machines. It allows teachers to show students advanced concepts and principles that they may not have the lab equipment to do in class. Students are able to manipulate the variables to see what happens so that physics is more than a series of equations. Mayer (2009) would see this as a knowledge construction becuase students are able to go in and manipulate the variables in their own way so that they given any circumstances they can see what happens. They are able to construct their own knowledge based on the parameters they put into the simulations so they can see what would happen when they apply more force or increase the mass of an object, they can then use that information to help them determine if their calculations make sense.

USA Test Prep (www.usatestprep.com) is a site that our school pays to use that is extremely beneficial to students and teachers. The site itself allows students to practice on the state standards that we are learning in class in a variety of ways. They can play games, watch videos, and take practice test, review vocabulary and even complete teacher generated assignments. Mayer (2009) would consider this site as information acquisition because all learners will come away with the same knowledge. How they attain that knowledge will differ on the learner, if they are more of an auditory visual learner they will watch the videos on the content. If they are more of a hands on learner than they will most likely play the games so they can be involved in the learning. If they want to see what they already know they may take a practice test first to see where they should spend their time. Mayer (2009) would not consider this to be using technology for the technologies sake because authentic learning is taking place and students are able to drive how and what they learn.

Zunal web quest maker allows teachers to create web quests to present content to students. The web quest can serve as a guide while students explore content on their own. This allows them to delve more deeply into topics of interest. Each web quest has welcome, introduction, task, process, evaluation, and conclusion pages. Membership also allows teachers to search all web quests created on Zunal to use them in their classroom. With a Professional membership, users can copy and edit other user's web quests to personalize them for use in their classroom. Professional membership also allows access to other features, like the ability to embed additional pages, pre-test and post-test, rubric, quiz, map, and games. Using a web quest created by Zunal can help learners manage the information being presented. The evaluation page can be used to promote generative processing. This site is better than other similar sites because of all of the features available, including the ability to edit web quests made by other users and all of the pages that can be added into the web quest, like maps and games.