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What it does: Allows teachers to create a video from jpg files, video clips, and music. Also allows for verbal explanation to accompany video. Why this one: It is free and simple to use. Other movie makers may have many more bells and whistles. However the capabilities of this package are broad enough to satisfy most teachers' needs. The simplicity of the package is an invaluable benefit for teachers who do not have the time to spend learning new packages. Learning benefits: Both essential and generative learning can result from this multimedia option. Videos can be short (limited capacity) and provide dual coding (Mayer, 2009). Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Windows Moviemaker allows presentations and pictures to come alive. Windows Moviemaker is user friendly and easy to navigate. This software allows students and teachers to create and display presentations in the form of a movie. These presentations are engaging and keeps the participants involved.

What it does: Allows teachers to create a simple cartoon strip. Why this one: It is free and easy to use. It provides templates from which to choose. I see a great benefit in that teachers can quickly create a dozen of these messages in the same time it would take to create just 1 video message. Therefore, time and practicality are key benefits. As mentioned above, I have tried to maintain the need for simplicity and efficient use of time. Creating multimedia presentations are but a small fraction of the enormous number of jobs a teacher must complete. Learning benefits: I see this more for generative learning. Role playing, "what if" scenarios, and thought-provoking situations can be presented by the teachers.

This is a tool which can be used for digital storytelling.  It is technology centered although its use is learner centered.  I incorporated the use of this tool with students from another school to retell parables with a 21st century twist in the middle school curriculum of the private Christian school at which I taught.

This is a free site that allow you to create cartoons using the available images, images you create, or your own photos. Just drag and drop!

Assignment, Module 3 - Animoto.com is a fast, free, easy-to-use, video production site.  Users can turn their digital photos, video clips, and music into well-orchestrated movie presentations.  It is trendy, fast-paced, and geared toward the young, digital natives that thrive on personally-produced content.  Animoto encourages creative applications of learning.

Description: Video slideshow creator using words and audio and graphics Why better: Slideshows can align with Mayer's(2001) principles. Downloadable and embeddable.

Animoto is designed to allow its users to upload captions and images in order to create vivid videos set to music. Animoto videos are what I like to consider, "smart videos." They analyze the video, feel the music, and then customize the video, allowing users to share and publish their unique video to any webpage. Animoto videos are a creative and fun way to introduce a topic of study, introduce vocabulary, or to teach a short lesson with. Animoto is free to use after making an account, but unless a membership is purchased with Animoto, the videos that you make will be no longer than 30 seconds in length. I have used it with my presentations, after purchasing a membership, and participants of the presentation were engaged and excited about what they saw and learned. It makes learning more interesting. Animoto is better than most other video production sites as it offers its users a variety of professionally looking templates to add your photos, text, and audio to, whereas other sites are limited on their templates to basic features.

Movie Maker allows users to turn home movies into feature films of sorts. The user has the ability to add a soundtrack, narration, text, and other graphics to their home movies. This is an effective tool to use for digital storytelling because users have access to turn their words into so much more.

Inspiration is an excelled software program that helps you create graphic organizers. I like this program more than the others because it allows the user to save the file as a PDF or JPEG file. Many of the other resources do not allow for specialized saving.

This website, although is the advertising for the software, has an area for teachers to sign-in. This access has training and tutorials for teachers on how to use the software and how to integrate it into the curriculum. The site provides lesson plans and ideas for teachers as well as a forum and technical support. These programs are concept-mapping or brain-storming programs designed to help students of all ages prepare and organize their thoughts for writing. The program provides both text and visual elements to assist the learner. Purchase of the software is a condition of access to the teacher support and training areas.

This website, although is the advertising for the software, has an area for teachers to sign-in. This access has training and tutorials for teachers on how to use the software and how to integrate it into the curriculum. The site provides lesson plans and ideas for teachers as well as a forum and technical support. These programs are concept-mapping or brain-storming programs designed to help students of all ages prepare and organize their thoughts for writing. The program provides both text and visual elements to assist the learner. Purchase of the software is a condition of access to the teacher support and training areas.

This is the site to download the free version of Jing. You can also purchase the professional version. This tool will be used to create how to videos and real time screen sharing. When learners see step by step processes in real time, it helps to reinforce the concepts and increases memory. These videos can also be shared via HTML and as downloads. Because the HTML codes are easy (cut and paste) and the loading of the presentation (click play), learners will not have to have high tech skills to access the videos and they have the oprion to save them and revisit them.

Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: Jing is awesome!! Jing allows you to quickly take screenshots or record short videos. If one is intending participants to have something set-up before the presentation, record a Jing and save the file or easily share the file using sites like screencast.com. Jing allows audience members to be prepared for the speaker. Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): Easy to use! You can also pause the recording while making it as well as mute. Screencast.com allows for quick sharing in multiple forms.

Learners can use jing to record their activities that demonstrate their learning within the Bb environment. It connects visuals with audio and can demonstrate, highlight, and segment items in accordance with best-practices in multimedia design. It's better than other products because it's easy to use and free!

This site provides a collection of graphic organizers available in a variety of media formats including Word, HTML, and PDF. The graphic organizers provided on the site allow the presenter to organize workshop material and provide participants with a guide and note-taking handout. The process of using a graphic organizer during instruction ensures essential cognitive processing of select material and promotes generative processing with an engaging environment. The significance of this site involves the ability to manipulate the graphic organizers to tailor the layout to specific instruction.

A collection of graphic organizers available in a variety of media formats. The development of computer simulations and games are a great addition. The ability to modify the graphic organizer to match the content.

Thinkport Graphic organizer page has examples for several different graphic organizers such as character maps, concept map, cornel notes, compare/contrast, Venn diagrams, and many more. The most interesting thing about graphic organizer section is that it allow you to open each of the graphic organizers in three different formats…HTML, PDF, and Word.

Voki is a online site that allows the learner to create their own speaking avatar. Once the avatar is created, there is an opportunity to demonstrate generative learning by creating speech for the avatar. The speech can be recorded by one's own voice or done through a text to speech tool. In my project, this will be a way for workshop participants to use generative learning to apply their learning to creating their own project. They will post an avatar on their wiki to entice learners to use it, giving purpose and features that will make the wiki useful to the participant. I chose this site for many reasons. Although it is very simple to use, it requires a high level of creativity that is engaging for learners. The product is high quality and is able to be shared via email and different online environments.

Voki is a great multimedia website that will allow students to create talking avatars depicting themselves or historical figures.  I will use this site in my presentation wiki on infusing mulitmedia in a history class.

This website allows users to design an avatar. A video demonstrating the use of avatars for editing rough drafts show a potential use of this Web 2.0 tool for the K-12 classroom. This video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/embed/ao9KQltMkP0

Edu 2.0 provides all the elements of face to face classroom in to a digital classroom. This site can be used in the presentation portion and allows for participation through wiki's, blogs,a and chat rooms. I like this site because it is free, you can pick and choose what you want to set up and have available for participants. It does require participants to sign in and allows you to monitor and track progress.

This portal provides the teacher with the opportunity to create a course with lessons that can become available to students as they are being administered. It also provides the teacher with collaborative tools, opportunity to prepare group work which can be monitored, to prepare a gradebook and many more interesting applications. It is also very easy to use.

This website was chosen to show how to use technology to do brief classroom presentations. Part of the workshop will include an example of a blabberized topic and then teachers will navigate the site to see how simple it is. Showing an example and then allowing them to navigate the site to get a more personal experience promotes "active learning- because meaningful learning outcomes occur as a result of the learner's activity during learning."(p. 21)

The graphic organizers provided here are, for the most part, plain in appearance. These will allow students to create their own look to these organizers whenever possible. The files are presented in .pdf format. There are approximately 80 different graphic organizers on this site. I found the options in this site more adaptable to different uses. Plus I prefer some of the editing options in Adobe Acrobat over MS Word and PowerPoint.

Freeology offers a variety of graphic organizer templates that can be printed for use in the classroom. The graphic organizers help students to maintain focus on what is the most important within the content area or topic of study. These organizers allow the learner to organize the information in an easy to read and user friendly method.

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 is a great online alternative to Power Point. It allows you to create power point style presentations that can be shared via a url or downloaded. It is a great alternative first, because its free and still offers most of the common options used in Power Point. Being able to share it via url, and allow the users to download it as an html.

Very easy to use site for creating online, collaborative presentations (a la PowerPoint). The site offers very little in terms of how-to information, and it is primarily at the generative level of cognitive processing, focusing on creating and applying the tool. However, it is a very simple interface, much like PowerPoint stripped down to the basics. Its advantages are ease-of-use, share-ability, privacy options, and the ability to download presentations.

Description: This site requires users to register in order to save and access presentations. It is simple and easy to use. Presentations can be accessed from any computer without downloading special plug-ins. Explanation: This is a good tool for users to create online presentations for sharing or accessing from anywhere. It is preferred to other sites because it is easy to use and free.

Google docs is a great way to merge existing documents, with the ability to create and organize documents online. It is better than a lot of other options because it is free, and transfers across computer platforms.

Google docs is a web based productivity platform that allows the creation of documents, spreadsheets, diagrams and forms. Multiple users can access files simultaneously, allow for collaboration.

Google has a ton of free resources that have the same functionality as Powerpoint or Keynote. One of the great components of Google Docs is the ability to collaborate with others through real time chat or make comments/revisions to a document. For a presentation, Google Docs has a presentation tool that is easy to use, free, and accessible from any location with an internet connection. Although the presentations are not flashy, they help teachers incorporate multimedia into their instruction and make the technology accessible for all of their students.

This narrated video tour introduces the learner on how to add content areas to Blackboard. I was a highly proficient user of the old Blackboard, and this was the hardest area for me to adjust to in learning Blackboard Learn because it was very different, and had many more options than previously. There are few non-manufacturer resources available because of the newness of this version of the platform.