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Glogster EDU www.glogster.com The first authentic assessment activity website that I chose is called Glogster EDU. Glogster EDU is a website like no other resource I have ever seen. Glogster EDU is a creative, dynamic and innovative digital outlet for online creations that keeps learners in engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun (Glogster EDU, 2009). Glogster EDU is a vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner's knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner's desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested (Glogster EDU, 2009). The reason I chose Glogster EDU as one of my authentic assessment activities is because I have used it in my classroom and it works great. Glogster EDU is a powerful resource to use with students of the middle and high school levels because its possibilities are controlled by the students knowledge and creativity. Educators can set up assessments easily and quickly using the resources provided by the site host. Glogster EDU can be used for any type of assessment where students need to illustrate their understanding of course content. Glogster EDU also provides its own video site called Schooltube where students can research, watch, and add video to their personal glog adding the much needed audiovisual aspect to projects that normally would have been text based. I also really like the fact that Glogster EDU is a private site monitored by teachers; it gives me a sense of assurance that my students won't be accessing information that could get them or me in trouble.

Glogster allows users to create digital posters that incorporate video, text, pictures, and sound.

Glogster (www.glogster.com) allows teachers and students to create interactive projects. Teachers can design interactive glogs for their students to complete or assign the students to create their own glog for a class project. Either way this allows for the teacher to really control the learning. Mayer (2009) would consider Glogster knowledge construction because students will have to view the videos, read the articles, and examine the pictures that the teacher embeds in their glog to form an opinion or to create their own glog. When a student creates their own glog no two will be exactly the same.

Posted by: Jean Haefner: Site: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory This site provided an example of a graphic organizer providing generative learning with graphics and text to support understanding of how the process works in more detail than other sites I encountered.

This page has a growing collection of public domain resources. It points users to royalty free clips and sounds that can be used freely in the classroom for educational purposes. Good resource for copyright lessons.

Storytelling guide from Atomic Learning provides vocabulary guides, examples and guidelines for video production. Designed for educators to promote digital media in the classroom.

This is an evolving site with high quality tools for both the technologically savvy and the digital immigrant. This is not an exhaustive site, nor one where you will find everything you need - but the graphic organizer section is well done and contains the majority of a classroom teacher's needs. This is definitely a site to keep an eye on.

Use this video with adolescent learners and they will watch it twice then use what they have learned. Adults take a few more views...

This is a large site that is a bit cumbersome to navigate. If you take the time a teacher can find some amazing resources listed. But it does take time...

Great site to set up ablog for priamry students.

I have chosen this workshop because it incorporates many of the core principles of multimedia design for the corporate world as well as the educational arena. In addition, the tools that are introduced in the presentation are accessibility-friendly.

This video shows how some universities are using M-learning and its educational possibilities.

This site, like most reading series, provides support for both teachers and students. However, the most intriguing part of this site is that it develops students' cognitive abilities by building prior knowledge about each author, each story's subject matter, and vocabulary skills. In addition, it supports learning outside of traditional classroom walls by providing access to web-based field trips that correlate with individual story's concepts.

Apple website dedicated to challenge based learning, which entails engaging students in a variety of largely self-guided learning experiences with the intent of solving a real-world problem.

I included this site because it does include many multimedia artifacts and provides a good introduction to challenge based learning.

YouTube can be used to show me teaching the students how to make their own Photostory. Sometimes educators want to see how new technology can be taught to students. Seeing, for some, is believing. Youtube used in this way is student centered because the technology is used to dual code information that is being taught. (Mayer, 2008)

During the beginning of the workshop, participants will be watching two short videos posted on YouTube to introduce the rationale behind using Edmodo and show them key features. The videos will be engaging the learner on a cognitive level as they begin to reflect on how this applies to them and formulate ways they can utilize Edmodo in their classroom. At this point in the workshop, the participants will be behaviorally inactive.

This site provides the devices that I have access to that I would use to make a multimedia presentation to instruct how to use Photostory 3. The Interwrite hardware and software allows instructors to create lessons similar to Power Point but with the added ability to use the Interwrite School Pad to advance the presentation from anywhere in the room. The School Pad also allows for the instructor to annotate over the sides to highlight prominent features of Photostory. Interwrite is technology centered because the technology is driving the flow of instruction.

Primarily resources focused on rubrics: development of, use of, student perceptions of, etc. Developed by a university.

This website offers alternative authentic assessments as well as a toolbox for teachers. Even though this is my alma mater, The information presented here is proven to work for educators.

This website from the University of Wisconsin-Stout provides a repository of articles about assessment and how to create assessments and rubrics. Sample rubrics links are available.

A wealth of information about all components of a presentation. Covers a lot of the basics. The volume of information is almost overwhelming and there are some distracting aspects to the home page, but the quantity of information outweighs these potential limitations.

This is a blog dedicated to comment on "mLearning" relating to new applications as well as educational news about it.