Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

This is a free visual thesaurus that offers various uses. I am using this as a way to introduce concepts being taught in the workshop and will encourage the participants to make their own.

* 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.          

This website allows the individuals to take a virtual tour of the actual website which will be used in the workshop to create their classroom wiki.

This website shows how to create a customized organized chart in Microsoft Word 2007. The verbal directions that correlate with the visual modeling foster generative processing of essential information. In addition, workshop participants may wish to personalize or modify graphic organizers to fit within their individual classrooms.

Edmodo will be used during the class to give the participants a hands-on approach to learning the tool. Participants will be engaged on a behavioral and cognitive level using this tool during the workshop as they begin to learn the different features of Edmodo. They will see how to set up a class, create assignments and quizzes through Edmodo, manage a gradebook and calendar, share documents and links, discover resources and apps, connect with other educators, as well as connect with parents. Edmodo also has training resources available that will be utilized during the workshop.

Wiki used for working on the multimedia workshop on student engagement

Multimedia workshop on K-12 student engagement in the online classroom

This will be a 5-hour hands-on workshop for a professional conference to look at digital e-textile creating to develop collaboration, decision making, and social change learning skills. The delivery will incorporate a multimedia approach to learning based on the 12 design principles developed by Dr. Richard Mayer. Topic Digital e-textile creating connects STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) curricula through an art. Learner engagement/motivation is driven by individual customization of technology through personalization of fashion.

Multimedia workshop Presentation Wiki

Microsoft's Office 365 is offered free for schools and allows teachers and students to collaborate in innovative ways.  The program comes bundled with email, instant messaging, video conferencing, calendar and document sharing along with virtual storage. Learners can use Microsoft's Office 365 to collaborate asynchronously on group projects using SharePoint to promote knowledge construction and find meaning as they solve problems. Since Microsoft's Office 365 promotes active learning, I will use this program as one of the three artifacts for my multimedia workshop on flipped classroom instruction. 

Google + hangouts is a free Google live video chat service that was launched during 2013. This Google application allows up to 10 users to be engaged synchronously through instant messaging and video. The program also allows users to share each other's computer screens while engaged in live video conference. Google + drive allow users to store several gigabytes of information, and since hangouts has numerous features that can be used to suit a wide variety of learning situations, I will use this program as one of the three artifacts for my multimedia workshop on flipped classroom instruction. 

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. 

This aim of this screencast demonstration is to create clarity concerning misleading elements found on the wikihow site that was provided as a guide for my workshop participants to effectively develop their powerpoint presentations for their authentic assessment.