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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.