This website is an article that addresses some tips and "To Dos" for people who plan to do educational presentations. It discusses essential aspects such as theme, timing and delivery. Presenters reading this article can take whatever tidbits of information they like and disregard the others. So the allowance of flexibility is what fosters generative processing.
This site provides great ideas and examples of authentic assessments for a range of content areas. It provides tutorials on how to create and assess authentic assessments through rubrics that are already created or self created rubrics. This is a wonderful tool if you are unfamiliar with the implementation of authentic assessments in your educational environment.
Google Sites are, first and foremost, versatile. Sites can be created for a variety of purposes, and Google has templates to make creation easy. Once a site is created using a template, it can be completely edited and personalized to fit the needs of the user. One way that Google Sites can be used for authentic assessment is to create portfolios. Since templates allow the user to customize their site, the teacher can create a template for the portfolio that each student could adapt to their own taste. Portfolios created using Google Sites can promote generative processing by encouraging students to organize the information they learned and integrate the new content with prior knowledge as they create authentic products. Google Sites is better than other sites for portfolio creation because it is user friendly and can be used with Google Apps for Education.
Located on this graphic organizer website, Education Oasis, offers its users 58 different graphic organizers to printout and utilize for classroom use. These graphic organizers download as PDF files, which an Adobe Reader is needed to view and print them (as most Internet users have and utilize), make for clearer images, but unless you have purchased Adobe, you are unable to modify the graphic organizer to your needs. This site was picked because of its large variety of free graphic organizers for printing purposes with my students, which enhance learning of all students because of the variety of organizers that can be utilized for various lessons.
The Online Teaching Conference 2012 will be held June 19, 20, & 21 at Long Beach City College, CA. This conference focuses on Community College faculty, staff, and administrators engaged (or interested) in online education including delivery of online services such as student, faculty, library, and technical support | Designed and developed by Codify Design Studio - codifydesign.com
The Online Teaching Conference 2014 will be held June. I would love to register for this and go and be among other like minded folks interested in the power of online learning K-12 and beyond.
Website 1 - Prezi Presentations: http://www.bbcactive.com/BBCActiveIdeasandResources/UsingPreziInEducation.aspx
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation program which was created during 2009 by Peter Arvai (prezi, 2014). Due to its intuitive nature, Educators and learners can use prezi to organize information to promote knowledge construction for finding meaning to complex problems. Knowing that prezi presentations promote active learning, I will use this program as one of the three artifacts for my multimedia workshop on flipped classroom instruction.
Youtube is a site that gives the user the opportunities to post videos about almost anything online. It is a video sharing website where users can upload and share videos. I chose this as a resource because it has a large resource of information that can be used for teaching purposes. Youtube makes posting and searching for videos simply because it is very easy to use.
Through YouTube you can share with your participants examples of work they they will be creating. YouTube is one of the better choices for watching movies since it has the largest collection of videos online. There are many other video websites available on the Internet, but YouTube is the most popular. Showing videos from YouTube is an example of essential learning since you are showing the participants what is essential to a good digital story.
You Tube- This website allows a presenter to create a video or power point and upload it to the Internet for anyone to view. Most videos are simple to upload though uploading power points are a bit more tricky. This video sharing site allows the presentor to share information that is necessary for the course participants to know before the course begins. I like this as a pretraining site because it is easy to access in most locations. However most K-12 educational facilities block this site due to some inappropraite submissions. Course participants must make sure that they are able to access You Tube prior to the beginning of the course.
YouTube is a wonderful tool to use in creating presentations. It is also very helpful in finding other presentations, demonstrations, and tutorials. I think teachers would benefit from the many demonstrations and examples of Student Response Systems being used during my workshop. YouTube is very easy to navigate and easy to upload ones own videos.
This site is a great tool for uploading and sharing videos. Youtube is industry standard for video sharing. It is reliable, offers multiple formats uploads and offers privacy. I would recommend that teachers use this site to upload final dance video projects or use Just Dance videos on the site to have student analyze other dancers. I would not recommend comments unless the user approved them first.
Youtube allows trainers to post pre-training video clips to introduce learners to ideas and information that they need to know before the actual training occurs. The site gives the trainer a location to post videos then allows the trainees to view the information at their own pace.
YouTube is a great pre-training tool for learners to do a little research about their upcoming topic. However, it may be best to send out the links to learners in advance so they are not overloaded or misinformed. This site has proven to be a great place for the discerning learner to find valuable "how-to" advice and instructions. I fixed my automatic sliding door on the family minivan for free the other day!
YouTube is a multimedia website that houses videos. Videos on this site can be viewed and shared through emailing links or embedding videos into blogs, wikis, or websites. It is extremely easy to navigate and search for videos on any content. Home made videos can also be easily uploaded and shared in minutes.
YouTube is the choice again, but this time for assessment purposes. YouTube is the most popular of the hosting sites and is the one student's are currently most familiar with. After a video has been developed, edited, and stored in a computer, YouTube offers a place to store your video online. Along with this, it automatically delivers an embedding code for the creators to embed into a movie widget of the presentation venue chosen for disclosure which is essential for evaluation. Furthermore, video in these online presentation venues work for generative learning by allowing for comments and more multimedia by connecting to other relevant knowledge.
YouTube and TeacherTube both house produced videos ready for embedding into various multimedia venues. They have search options for locating promotion and how-to videos that can certainly be used for essential and generative learning. The primary difference is that TeacherTube is meant for educational professionals. Capabilities are to spark initial interest with promotional video(s) and to complete necessary account logistics for pre-training to practical use. A free account can be set-up by anyone.
What it is: YouTube provides millions of free videos on every topic imaginable. However, in addition to finding videos, YouTubes new video editor allows users to create their own videos as well.
Why it's better: YouTube provides a user-friendly interface that most are familiar with. Videos, images, sounds, text, and photos can all be combined to create instant videos that provide prior knowledge to students. All videos under 15 minutes are free. Since YouTube is a part of Google, all items are synced with your Google account. While there are many other free video creation tools available, YouTube truly does provide an easier experience.
YouTube offers users the opportunity to compile their work in the form of a video. One feature of YouTube is the capability of adding closed caption. Videos can be used for essential and generative learning because it provides a platform for learners to authentically demonstrate their understanding of the content.
This is a website that I have used for many years in both my general education first grade and special education classrooms. It provides individual short stories accompanied with songs, focused on basic phonetic and reading skills typically used in primary grades. I think this site to be very learner centered, since basic reading skills are regularly learned and this site can be facilitated as a strategy for building phonemic awareness skills in young children. It also is a wonderful tool for those older ELL students to learn and practice English. As Mayer stated, technology must be used in a way that is consistent with the way in which people learn (2009). Starfall.com provides strategies such as audio, songs and visuals to assist in students becoming better readers.
Starfall is an interactive site that helps students to learn how to read. Its primary goals are to help kindergarteners develop phonemic awareness, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and vocabulary skills; however, it can also be used to help older students with special needs develop these skills as well. By integrating Starfall's activities, teachers meet the requirement of implementing learner-centered activities and are able to meet students' cognitive needs when learning how to read.
Gizmo contains a collection of interactive study aids on various educational topics. Learners can use these interactive tools to gain a better understanding of a variety of topics.
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.
This site was used as a guide to help educators learn about how ILife can be useful in the classroom. The way information is presented requires more cognitive activity than behavioral. The site seems to be more technology centered, because it focuses more on the technology itself. As Mayer (2009) suggests the this approach focuses more on the capabilities of the technology.
