This is by far one of the best powerpoint oriented portals on the web. The nice thing is that you can save a useful ppt on your computer without licensing issues. The drawback is that there are so many options and links that just dropping in for a fast pick-up of a presentation is difficult. Additional links on the site go to educational clipart and interactive activities. Just a great site.
You tube video of reasons to blog.
You- Tube Blogging in the Elementary Classroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpKh5GJ3nY
This vidoe shows parents, teachers,and students talking about how they use blogs in their classroom. I chose this vidoe because it relates to the grade level of the participants in my group.
I would use this video as a pretraining activity because it will give the participants something to be thinking of as the workshop progresses.
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Education Oasis is geared towards instructional design; therefore it's essentially a one stop shop for creating instruction. The site has 58 different graphic organizers to choose from. Not only does the site contain information on creating graphic organizers, this site also can assist with per training and assessment activities. Instead of having to surf the Web for different sites to create one presentation, Education Oasis has more than enough information to help organize any type of educational presentation.
Education City is an interactive website that helps students develop skills within Reading/Language Arts, Math, and Science classrooms. This site provides support for these subject areas by incorporating educational games and interactive lessons for teachers. Teachers can first introduce or review a concept as a whole/small group activity using their interactive whiteboards. Then, students can complete individualized activities on the website, or they can complete worksheets printed off from the site. The website correlates with state standards and is a great tool to use as a Response to Intervention (RTI) programs because it allows the teacher to track individual students' progress in each subject area. Education City is a learner-centered application because it focuses on cognitive growth of individual students by allowing teachers to differentiate instruction and provide support for special needs students.
Wordle is a great site for creating pre-training activities that will inspire participants to learn. The activities will be used for essential learning because it givse participants a starting point for learning. I would use this site because it catches the learning attention while provide meaningful learning.
ProProfs is another website to use for pretraining. ProProfs has a free trial but is fairly inexpensive for educators.ProProfs allows you to embedd your quizzes. Again pre-training activates prior knowledge and allows the learner to prepare himself for what is to come. Pro Profs also has a flashcard maker as well as a game maker, both of which you can embed in websites.
Jeopardy Labs provides a web-based jeopardy game template for users to create or browse others' created games for use in the classroom. This is a must for alternate assessment activities, and one which I enjoy using especially in preparation for state-mandated tests.
This is the best resource for authentic assessment activities for my multimedia workshop. Teachers that participate in my workshop will have to be able to utilize the performance standards from GA and incorporate some of the authentic assessments from those standards. This site is a good resource for all of my teachers.
This website contains templates that could be used to create pre-training game activities for the Student Response Systems. By engaging participants in a game using the clickers, this will help inform the presenter the level of understanding and knowledge the participants have of the technology being used.
This website will be a good introduction or pre-training activity for teachers to see how the Interwrite tablet and Student Response Systems work in the classroom. This site will also provide teachers with a glimpse of how they can effectively use the the technology to present material and actively engage students in the lesson.
This site is part of the eInstruction website. I chose the eI Community as a site to use in my workshop for authentic assessment activities, because it offers teachers the ability to create and upload resources for the Interwrite tablet and Students Response Systems. What better way to assess what a participant has learned than to have them create their own lesson, graphic, or resource and upload it for others to use?
This paper explains the importance of ACTIVELY engaging today's students in the classroom. It explains what must be done and how it can be done. Mayer states that, "learner-centered approaches begin with an understanding of how the human mind works and ask, "How can we adapt multimedia to enhance human learning? (2009, p.13)"
References
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Museum Box is a great tool for Social Studies teachers and teachers of other content areas. A free tool, it allows teachers and students to create "boxes" of artifacts and information about a topic of their choosing. The focus is on cognitive activity on a student-focused level since users have to think through which artifacts and information would be most effective in terms of presenting the most valuable information about a topic of their own choosing. Even if the teacher assigns the topic to the student, it is still up to the student to choose which items to put in the box. I can see this tool working for Social Studies teachers as a way for their students to present what they have learned about a particular topic, but I can also see it being useful in my English Language Arts classroom as a way for my students to present information about the time period in which a novel occurs.
This is an awesome website with a great multimedia video that is itself conceived with Universal Design principles in mind as the narrator's comments are written at the bottom of the screen for people who might be hearing impaired. The video presentation is geared toward people like me who are passionate about creating accessible faculty websites. The coherent structure of the video promotes active engagement and requires focuses on cognitive activity. In addition, the careful selection of relevant information presented seems to take into account Mayers' limited capacity principle from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning(Mayer, 2009). To me, this workshop is undoubtedly a learner-center approach to learning.
This webinar suggests 10 reasons for incorporating ADA compliance. It provides active learning based on Mayer's dual processing incorporating audio and visual channels. However, the active learning of this presentation is low. Much of the information presented contains extraneous information and this is a very long, slow-moving webcast. Even still, the information contained is useful and appropriate.
Completely free screencasting software. Downloadable. Use this for any tutorials you may want to create where the video shows your on screen activity. You can add narration.
Many students do not have the experiences to visualize concepts taught in math classes. Sites such as National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, allows teachers to "assist the learner in this sense-making process" (Mayer, 2009, p. 17). These concept tutorials promote both behavioral and cognitive activity that leads to meaningful learning outcomes (Mayer, 2009, p. 23). The site also affords the teachers opportunities to modify lessons to meet the needs of individual students.
Graphing calculators improve student attitudes and engagement with math content leading to a better understanding of the concepts. "…Knowledge-construction view is that multimedia learning is a sense-making activity" (Mayer, 2009, p. 17). Tools such as graphing calculators allow students to connect with their prior knowledge in order to make sense of algebraic equations. Teachers need tutorials available from sites such as this for both themselves and their students when infusing graphing calculators in the classroom.
Whiteboard is a tool that allows users to collaborate on the creation of documents. One user can create a whiteboard and upload an original piece of text. They can then invite other users to come to that whiteboard to help revise that text. In my workshop in particular, since the assessment activity is the creation of a group lesson plan using one of the Web 2.0 tools I share with them, Whiteboard can be used by participants to collaboratively create the lesson plan.
