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Pre-Training 1. Wordle URL: http://www.wordle.net/ Description: Generates "word clouds" from text so that participants can familiarize themselves with words and terms frequently used in the workshop. Explanation: Have always wondered how advertisers managed to arrange words of varying sizes and colors into a visually appealing montage. This software makes the task exceptionally easy. 2. Voice Thread URL: http://voicethread.com Description: Allows learners to look at examples of artwork as a group and to comment freely. Explanation: This provides an ability to get impressions from participants in real time.

This website allows you to look at the history of computers in an interactive timeline. Students love to look throughout the history by years to see what happened during that timeframe. I love the fact that students can point and click but I would also like for students to be able to see the entire timeline spread out. Students can actively use the timeline to see the concept of computers from inception.

This website allows you to look at the history of computers in an interactive timeline. Students love to look throughout the history by years to see what happened during that timeframe. I love the fact that students can point and click but I would also like for students to be able to see the entire timeline spread out. Students can actively use the timeline to see the concept of computers from inception.

Create your own free motivational poster on topic of your choice from an image you upload. Great for generative learning in introducing a topic or inspiring students to engage in an activity. Explanation of choice: Produces free, professional-looking photo-shop products which can be saved, printed, and used in other sites. Works in your browser with no downloads required.

Audacity is free sound editing software. It is open source and there are versions for all operating systems and platforms. Constant improvements and an enormous and very active community of devote followers that offer support makes this tool a favorite of many.

Audacity allows for sounds, songs, and audio files to be recorded and edited. This tool will be useful for workshop participants to add their own voice to pictures and images in a presentation. Its features seemed easier to use than other similar audio editing applications.

* Brief Description: Audacity allows for high quality recording with different editing functions.  Allows for simple recording and for more complex mixing and editing.       * Brief Explanation: I like how easy it is to edit and record with Audacity and then be able to add the recordings to the screen captures created through Camtasia.      

With time toast, students can build an interactive timeline of historical information, as well as input information which will help them learn the material with ease. In addition, students are able to input pictures and other data to help them organize an event or procedure.

This is an excellent site to use in organizing information in a Social Studies and Language Arts class on an interactive timelines. In addition to the active line, students will be able to retrieve an outline of the information found on the timeline.

This website contains many types of rubrics to fit every need. It gives sample rubics that are adaptable to meet the needs for various assignments. It even has a collaboration rubric. It is easy to use. Since the rubrics are specifically designed for the online learner, it is best for my purpose than the other sites that are for the face-to-face classroom.

Brief description of what it allows you to do and how it can be used for essential or generative learning: Google sites is great because it is also a free tool that supports collaboration. I actually have to create a portfolio and it is easy to house on a site like this. It is easily accessible. It provides many user friendly functions and can adequately host or be any authentic assessment. Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found (e.g., more effective, creates better products, easier to use, and so on): Highly used and recognized by many people so familiar to audience members. Functions are straightforward and can easily share site for collaboration.

This site allows you to easy create 30 sec clips from uploaded images and record from your cell phone. I like this site because it allows people to create audio even if they do not have access to audio equipment for their computers. The short clips can easily be shared among classmates.

This website allows you to upload photos and record narration. A great way to explain a vision by more than just a picture but telling exactly how you recall it. This can be used as a storyboard for my participants of my workshop in their pre-training activity.

Record using your phone

training on how to use software designed for use with Promethean brand interactive white boards.

As a former user of TimeGlider, I have experienced its usefulness as a multimedia tool for active cognitive learning. With TimeGlider, the user is able to create an interactive timeline to be designed alone or collaboratively and shared with others. This free tool allows the user to not only control how important an event is based on its size on the timeline, but it also allows the user to link events on the timeline to online videos and to upload pictures to enhance the timeline. The student may begin with an idea of the time period they are creating a timeline for, but they make the choices about what material to include in terms of how many events to include and any extras like videos or pictures. 

Timeglider is web-based timeline software for sharing history and project planning. It can be an interactive guide to users for events like workshops and can be interactive between creator and users for essential and generative purposes. Timeglider is free for limited usage, but then asks for five dollars a month for formidable teacher/student uses. This site is a fine representation of cheap visual technology that gives good visual aid and cognitive understandings of the timeline organization.

This site has it all and at no cost, neither in extraneous processing nor in monetary contribution. It is a very comprehensive site that contains assessment rubrics for every subject including multimedia projects

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.

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.

Classmarker offers online quiz preparation and scoring. This tool can promote essential learning, if used appropriately. Quizzes can be embedded into websites allowing users to include periodic checkpoints that willprompt students to stop and organize their thoughts about the content provided up to that point. I chose this tool because it allows users to embed quiz into their websites.

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.

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 inforgraphic provides data to the reader in an engaging, well-organized manner. It introduces a number of terms that can be built upon later in trainings, and it does so in an easily accessible, yet engaging manner. It allows one, later, to reference the specific information during discussions or other activities. This format is more desirable and potentially effective than other mediums because it is concise and easily manageable. It doesn't require a great deal of reading to understand, which is important in pre-training.

This site is one of many blog sites that can be used to see if your participants have an understanding of esential concepts. You could use this blog site to have access your participants by having them blog about how they used the key concepts from your workshop in lessons or daily clasroom activities. This could be a post assessment.

o Website where learners can create their own blog to share with teacher, other learners, or the profession at large in the case of teacher training. Learners can provide their in-depth analysis of concepts as well as examples and resources to support the information. Rather than a factual knowledge quiz, blogs provide learners with the opportunity to interpret and develop their own understanding and sense of concepts through cognitive processing. o This is an easy to use with multiple templates already set up for quick blog creation. However, the site still provides ample flexibility for the most adventurous type in search of customization.