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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...

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 variety of resources and recommendations for trainers and program developers Recognized the variety of workshop types and options.

Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers This site has pre-made graphic organizers that students can fill in. There are different organizers for different types of brainstorming. This site would be best for lower elementary school students or for students who need more assistance (EIP or Sp. Ed.) The PDF document is easy to download and add text to the sections of the organizer. This site also allows for printing a hard copy or the ability to save the filled in GO to be shared later.

With this website, participants can create graphic organizers online with premade PDFs. Graphic organizers can be saved. Participants are able to choose which graphic organizer is best for them.

This site shows different graphic organizers and their perspective names that can be used to organize information and how the information can be organized. I especially like this site and how you can actually click on each organizer to use for future use.

This website provides a resource that describes various aspects of authentic assessment. In addition to sharing examples of authentic assessments for different content areas, the author provides flowcharts and step-by-step guidance for develop authentic assessments. Authentic assessments allow learners to demonstrate what they have learned by using concepts in applicable, relevant situations. Authentic assessments provide evidence of essential and generative learning. This website provides a combination of both general steps for developing authentic assessments as well as more detailed descriptions of the "how" and "why" behind this type of assessment strategy. The information at the website is easy to access and follow.

This is a page from a broader wiki on the subject of digital storytelling that specifically addresses VoiceThread. It is at the essential level of cognitive processing, providing a large overview of the process of creating a VoiceThread, its purposes, assessment, and more. Although it is a bit out-dated in format (lots of scrolling), the number of examples and resources (including sample rubrics, student handouts, etc.) make it one of the better sites for using VoiceThread in education I've found.

Freeology.com offers a variety of graphic organizers, and most of their resources are FREE! This is great for educators because we have limited funding and unlimited needs. This website offers explanations and images of their graphic organizers.

It's a great resource because not only it contains a variety of word templates of graphic organizers; it also contains links to other great resources. The templates are easy to use

Quizilla is useful for essential and generative learning. It allows users to create quizzes, poems, stories, games, and other creative artifacts for posting online. The resource can be used for organizing ideas in the form of checkpoint quizzes or for demonstration understanding through more creative forms of knowledge demonstration such as poems, games, etc. I chose this site because it offered a wide range of choices.

If your training is research-based, Mendeley is a great option for creating collaboration and discussion around scholarly publications. You can upload specific documents, including research papers and journal articles, and share access to the documents with a group of individuals. In addition, participants can comment on and discuss the documents. Mendeley offers a database for referencing resources, as well as some social networking resources that can help participants begin to understand content that will later be used on the training.

Robin Good developed a mind map of the best online collaboration tools from 2009 using mindmeister.com. Each item on this mind map is linked to the website for the collaborative tool. Enjoy!!! This is the best set of resources in one place I have found.

The book or online resources provides access to online lectures ideal for students of English as a foreign language to practice their academic English skills. A great resource for students who will venture into English Medium Instruction (EMI) university for the first time.

This is a lesson plan building website that allows teachers to build a lesson plan with quick and easy steps. The process is well explained and easy to follow. This will allow participants to integrate their new knowledge of Web 2.0 tools with an online resource. The explanation of the site is thorough and closely adheres to the coherence principle.

This site is a resource that provides templates for building lesson plans. Teachers can explore the different templates to find one that helps them organize materials and communicate objectives. The templates provide a variety of styles and are easy to download. The combination of text and graphics will help present the material in a dual coding mode.

This website provides a description of ten Web 2.0 tools and possibilities for their use. This site provides practical suggestions for classroom implementation. There are links to additional websites for participants who want to explore possibilities. The site is mostly text, but provides links to graphic and text resources.

Great explanation of a flipped classroom. This website provides lots of information on using a flipped classroom and how your can intergrate Edmodo. The resources on the website help accomplish a learner centered classroom using technolgoy.

Teacher blogs are a great resource for creating a learner centered classroom. This article explains why we need to prepare students for the technology shift. In other words how import using technology is in a learner centered classroom.

In this video, a teacher is interviewed on how she uses differentiated instruction in her classroom.

Kathy Schrock is an educational technologist, author, speaker, and well-known K-12 technology leader in the field. Kathy has developed this website to provide teachers with an extensive compilation of technology integration support resources.

The Inspiration site's graphic organizers pages not only have several different types of graphic organizers available they also define what graphic organizers are and explains possible uses of the different graphic organizers. Although they are trying to sell software to produce some of these it is still a great resource.