The W3C's introduction to HTML which is the markup language my participants will have to be familiar with prior to attending my workshop. The reason why I picked the W3C tutorial is because it is guaranteed to be compliant with the XHTML standards that are crucial to the success of the workshop. W3C is the consortium that upholds the standards of web design
This site is for creating worksheets, lessons, and class web pages to publish online instantly.
This site provides examples and user friendly instructions for simple creation of web pages and lessons that can be linked to from a workshop presentation.
This site provides a comprehensive list of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
This site was better than others, because the list was typed in a cohesive manner without extraneous graphics and material on the page. This list is for websites, but the concepts can be applied to multimedia workshops and presentations.
This site allows the user to create online thinking tools such as visual ranking, seeing reason, and showing evidence.
This site is useful, because it allows the user to show the relationships between key concepts of the workshop. The tools have tutorials, examples, and instructional strategies. This is a site that provides guidance and support for exploration with the tools.
This is video created to provide an insight into the future of education, technology and communication worldwide. The comparisons between the education in the U.S., India, and China are very interesting. I have played this selection over the last few years at almost every workshop I've hosted. The presentation does not fit into Mayer's (2008) efficient multimedia formats, but the material does make an impact. This is especially good to shake up those folks who espouse that technology is just a fad.
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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YouTube can be used to show me teaching the students how to make their own Photostory. Sometimes educators want to see how new technology can be taught to students. Seeing, for some, is believing. Youtube used in this way is student centered because the technology is used to dual code information that is being taught. (Mayer, 2008)
During the beginning of the workshop, participants will be watching two short videos posted on YouTube to introduce the rationale behind using Edmodo and show them key features. The videos will be engaging the learner on a cognitive level as they begin to reflect on how this applies to them and formulate ways they can utilize Edmodo in their classroom. At this point in the workshop, the participants will be behaviorally inactive.
This site is at the essential cognitive level, providing an overview of the terms, functions, and processes involved in using Inspiration software (or mywebspiration.com). The site, which is apparently a workshop plan, is plain-looking but effective. Functions in Inspiration are broken down into discrete links, allowing for user-controlled navigation. Each offers a very simple text tutorial, accompanied by a static or animated graphic.
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?
Combination of iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band. A great place for the participants of my workshop to store their audio and video artifacts needed for their presentation.
This site gives an in-depth discussion of authentic assessment and the difference between it and traditional assessment. It includes rubrics and examples, and offers how to apply authentic assessments to portfolios and workshops.
I feel this complete approach is important when starting to use authentic assessments, so as to stay true to the purpose.
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.
280 Slides is a site that allows users to create presentations similar to a PowerPoint. In fact, if a PowerPoint show has already been created, it can be uploaded to the site. This tool could be used by workshop participants as they collaborate to create a brief presentation about a concept discussed in the workshop. The fact that this tool is so similar to PowerPoint was a big plus, in addition to the fact that, unlike PowerPoint, when the 280 Slide presentation is completed, it can be easily shared to the Web.
I chose this site because of its ease of use and its numerous relevant features that allow me to create beautiful presentations, store them online for free, and access them from any computer that is connected to the internet
The Mozilla Firefox browser add-on capabilities can extend the functionality of the browser to support improved student academic performance and increase the instructor's productivity. The workshop presentation will be educational administrators, faculty, and staff. The participants are likely to know that a browser is used to navigate the Internet.
The presentation is useful because in addresses the way we perceive situations and people's attitudes. The narrated program combines clean and crisp slides with narrative. The presentation promotes though through short stimulus statements that require reflection upon one's own beliefs. The program seeks to adjust the behavior of the viewer through cognitive analysis of oneself.
The presentation is potentially useful to my workshop because it addresses motivation through the theory of Albert Bandura. The learner-centered presentation incorporates simplistic and easy to read PowerPoint slides that can be incorporated with verbal presentation. The presentation inspires cognitive learning because it promotes discussion by asking questions based upon the assumption that student motivation is heavily influenced by how they perceive their place in society.
