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Prezi is an interactive and free presentation tool. You can create slide shows online and present them that way, or download them and show them as a power point type show.

Prezi is a web based power point presentation with a twist. It is easy to use and FREE. I would encourage my workshoppers to use this tool to have students create the steps of learning a dance. This would be a great way to present the knowledge that they have acquired by using the Wii Just Dance program. I might also suggest that they use it to have students create and teach their own warm-ups.

* This website allows the instructor to create educational presentations. * This website offers more options than PowerPoint.

This site is more for generative learning because it allows you to be able to give concrete examples of how iLife applications can be used in various content areas. I fould it better because there are lots of concrete examples given by a community of educators across grade levels and subject areas.

This is site has a great podcast that can help in pre-training to get your participants to thinking outside the box concerning technology and education in today's world.

The following presentation was presented by the PBS in the state of Iowa. Information included within the video describes how technology is being used in the classroom at a state university. Because this piece is presented from an editorial perspective, the focus is on the positive and negative aspects of technology in the classroom. For the multimedia workshop that I am building, the information enclosed focuses on both the learner center approach and technology centered approach. Data is shown visually and provides an education to those with whom the information is being presented.

This website provides a list for how teachers can incorporate Google Docs in the classroom. Teachers will be excited about participating in this training because it can eliminate the fear of losing data, having multiple files of the same document, or the limitations of using one computer. Using this website will help teachers see the positive advantages for learning about Google Docs.

A variety of activites on advisement and career development for educators to use as part of a advisement program.

Prior to beginning training it may be necessary to activate one's background knowledge or make connections to more complex material. TeacherTube is a great resource for educators to use to collaborate and reflect on activities from teachers around the world. In this example, participants from a PD course for teaching with ESOL strategies will watch and reflect upon how interactive activities (such as Reader's Theater) help the ELL make meaningful connections to text. Later on in the training, participants will name the specific examples from the course and how they were applied in the video.

Bubbl.us is a very simple brainstorming/mindmapping tool. In my workshop (Using Wikis in Education) I will use the graphic organizer as a pre-training tool to introduce the purposes for using a wiki in Education. This will be a good tool for essential processing because the learners will be exposed to key concepts before the main learning event takes place. The learners will be given the key concepts in the primary nodes in the mindmap as the categories under which they will classify their new learning. Bubbl.us allows the learner to map out ideas and make connections. I liked this site because the mindmap was simple to create and it could be easily exported as a JPEG file. The only drawback is that I wish that it had the ability to import pictures/graphics and notes.

JayCut is a free online video editor that provides some basic video editing features, but is likely able to meet the needs of most educational technologists and instructional designers. The site is fairly straight forward but can interface with a variety of files and can combine audio, video, and text in an online editor. Files can be uploaded or they can be captured via microphone and/or webcam. The options included in this online application are rather impressive. The site could be used for presentations or pre-training. Students may benefit from the use of JayCut as it can facilitate the organization of materials to support essential and generative cognitive processing. By organizing text, images, and sound in a coherent manner and in a manner that upholds signaling, and spatial and temporal contiguity, students may be more inclined to organize in their own mind relationships between new material and that which is stored in working memory.

The page provides a variety of example rubrics for technology and Web topics, which is why I like the site over some others offering sample rubrics. Considering essential and generative learning, via the use of well-designed rubrics that mesh with the educational goals of the lesson, students can use the rubric during selection of memories that are relevant to the topics presented in the lesson and can also use the rubric to guide them during the organization and integration of old and new memories / domain knowledge.

Booksmarks for multimedia workshop

This is a categorized list of sites on the Internet which are useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth

This site allows the user to create online thinking tools such as visual ranking, seeing reason, and showing evidence. This site is useful, because it allows the user to show the relationships between key concepts of the workshop. The tools have tutorials, examples, and instructional strategies. This is a site that provides guidance and support for exploration with the tools.

iKnowthat.com has interactive, multimedia educational games and activities for kids in preschool through 6th grade in Math, Language Arts, Science, The Arts. and Social Studies. It also has thinking games and social learning. There is a progress tracker, activities are standards-based and it is a safe, social learning environment. The site is open to teacher, parents, and students. It is great visually and easy to navigate. The colors and graphics are bright, but no animated graphics. It is a free basic subscription and one can purchase a classroom subscription for $199 yearly. Parents can get an at home subscription for a monthly or yearly fee. Search can be done by grade level or subject.

This is an article on the author's rationale for creating Authentic Assessment as a standard of practice to improve learning outcomes and promote the philosophy that education is about students acquiring a certain body of knowledge and skills necessary to become productive citizens. It references and provides links to examples as well as excerpts to his Toolbox. This article goes into more detail as to the "why" Authentic Assessment is a preferred method to demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills, whereas the Toolbox focuses more the "how".

Virtual Dub http://www.virtualdub.org/ Virtual Dub is a free downloadable online movie editing software for PC users that allows the manipulation and revision of avi files, jpeg and bmp files, and mp3 files. It is a website that allows you to quickly and easily design short videos to present to students or to create personal slideshows set to music. Either way Virtual Dub provides an opportunity to educators to take presentations past PowerPoint and to the next level of engaging video presentations. For the students of today we know and understand the importance of presenting our learners with the fast paced and visually stimulating graphics that they have been raised with. I chose to incorporate Virtual Dub because it is a free resource that is very effective that produces high quality presentations with an easy to use format. Another feature of Virtual Dub that I really appreciate and use frequently is the batch operation feature. This feature allows me to upload many photos or files all at once. Virtual Dub also allows users to edit their photos with advanced filters such as blur reduction, sharpen, emboss and many other features giving the final presentation a more clean cut and professional look.

This site is an article that shows educators why technology should be incorporated into the classroom. It is very clear in detailing the following concepts: * Support thinking processes * Stimulate motivation and self esteem * Promote equity * Prepare students for the future * Support changes in school structure * Explore technology capabilities This is a great way to get their minds in the right place to embrace the use of technology and encourage them to explore and create their own.

Classroom 2.0 is a social network for educators who are interested in the use of Web 2.0 or collaborative technologies in the classroom. I will use it for them to review each feature of this website and to consider or brainstorm what things they would like to incorporate into their own. It is a great source of ideas and a great place to collaborate with teachers of all levels.