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This is a virtual world where students can interact using avatars. Students could create dancing avatars that mimic moves used in class. This would be a very engaging activity for students to participate in. The best part is that students would have to have a good grasp on a dance in order to recreate the moves with an avatar.

This site allows users to interactively dance with other users all over the world. This is a great pre-training exercise for teachers to assess the dance ability of their students. Students will be exposed to a variety of dance moves and styles and the teacher will be able to ascertain ability based on the interactivity. This is currently the only interactive dance site that I am aware of…I am sure that over time more sites will emerge.

This site is a great icebreaker to a new topic. It provides easy to understand basics on any topic that you might teach. I would encourage teachers to use the quiz program to assess what students already know at the start of the lesson.

BrainPOP is a collection of numerous animated, educational learning videos. They are designed for students in grades K - 12. Many videos also come in Spanish.

BrainPop is a group of 1,000+ short animated curriculum-based content videos with quizzes, supplemental information and related materials in all subject areas, including professional development resources to support K-12 teachers.

More great resources for my workshop. This short video, very simply instructs users on adding a wiki within their Bb course. The video is free of extraneous, distracting information. The audio is clear and lined up with the appropriate visual.

This video collection would be great for pre-training. Various instructors at Duke share their experiences with using Bb. Though the audio is a bit tinny, the interview-style videos include actual visual examples of the topics spoken about. What a great way to introduce a group of learners to Blackboard.

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

Facebook pages and groups allows for creation of interactive sites to help creative active learning environments. This site is better than others due to its ease of use as well as its common use as a social media tool.

Exploratree is an amazing graphic organization creation site. There are many templates to begin with and is extremely easy to use. The site is free and has the ability to present and print the organizers. I prefer this site for creation of organizers over mind mapping tools.

This is a good teacher resource to help organize thoughts for a problem based learning activity. I chose this site among others because it makes more sense to be consistent and clear about the task and then let the user decide what multimedia effect could be used to help design the solution.

This is a site that provides free templates to make interactive PowerPoints. The pre-training activity will need to demonstrate active and engagement. The PowerPoint templates will provide a service to complement the Microsoft PowerPoint programs already purchased.