This video teaches you how to use the forms feature in Google Docs. It is a great tool for pre-training because it allows you to acquire information about your workshop attendees.
I like this training better than other ones that I looked at because it is instructive, simple, professional, and very useful.
Voki is a online site that allows the learner to create their own speaking avatar. Once the avatar is created, there is an opportunity to demonstrate generative learning by creating speech for the avatar. The speech can be recorded by one's own voice or done through a text to speech tool. In my project, this will be a way for workshop participants to use generative learning to apply their learning to creating their own project. They will post an avatar on their wiki to entice learners to use it, giving purpose and features that will make the wiki useful to the participant. I chose this site for many reasons. Although it is very simple to use, it requires a high level of creativity that is engaging for learners. The product is high quality and is able to be shared via email and different online environments.
Vokis are customizable avatars for use in the classroom. A lesson does not have to consist of a large amount of time, which makes Vokis valuable for sharing mini-lessons or instructions with students. The teacher's voice (or student's) may be recorded and combined with text-based instructions be used to teach a list of vocabulary words, give instructions, or even as individualized greeting for students when they login to their computer. Vokis can be stored on a wiki to reduce the burden on a school's server and are safe to share (as long as the students does not share any specific information about themselves) because they do not show the child's face. Vokis are fun for students and encourage their oral language development in a non-threatening way.
Voki is one way to add voice to a presentation. You can use the text-to-speech feature to explain a presentation or record your own voice. Voki can also be embedded in a blog or website. Each Voki is engaging to the learner. Easy to use.
Allows the user to create an animated avatar to be used as a presenter of material. Inputted text is converted to speech (available in multiple languages).
Voki is recognized as one of the best programs of its kind for the qulity of the imagery and the flexibility of the user input.
Voki allows you to make speaking avatars to use as an effective learning tool to motivate students to participate, improve comprehension, introduce technology in a fun way, and even as an effective language tool. Voki Classroom allows educators to organize how their students interact with Voki. Teachers and administrators can create class accounts, manage student work without student registration, and provides unlimited support for free or offers more at a low cost. The website provides lesson plans, brain training games, and tutorials.
Voki is a great multimedia website that will allow students to create talking avatars depicting themselves or historical figures. I will use this site in my presentation wiki on infusing mulitmedia in a history class.
This website allows users to design an avatar. A video demonstrating the use of avatars for editing rough drafts show a potential use of this Web 2.0 tool for the K-12 classroom. This video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/embed/ao9KQltMkP0
"Podcasting in the Classroom" - excellent, step instructions and student application video by a classroom teacher, in under 5 minutes, showing free resources available for podcasting.
This video defines authentic assessment. It explains the benefits of conducting authentic assessment. Authentic assessment allows a teacher to observe the progress of the whole child. This type of assessment gives the observer insight to what the learner is capable of doing.
This short video offers tips to use to implement an effective powerpoint presentations. Powerpoint presentations are an effective way to display content and get learners actively engaged. Hooking the learner into the presentation will lead to success.
Although Prezi is advertised as a presentation device, it works really well to graphically present information, so I prefer it as a graphic organizer. Prezi provides a medium to allow words to flow, enabling the user to zoom in to information "hidden" as a subcategory within the main points. This is a very exciting new program, which I have gladly paid a subscription for! There remain some gltiches in publishing, such as to wordpress, or from the desktop application.
Prezi allows a user to create a presentation that encompasses many of the same features of programs like PowerPoint. However, the presentation style of the elements follows more of a mind map design rather than a linear slideshow. The presentation tool is housed online, can be access for free, and makes it easy to integrate various forms of multimedia.
The tools available at Prezi are advantageous for developing stylish online presentations and for facilitating continued review of materials, non-linear formats for reasoning, and building connections among concepts. Prezi can promote both essential and generative processing by allowing users/viewers to independently explore and develop connections among concepts.
*Create slide presenations on the web.
*Prezi makes slide sharing much more powerful as you are able to zoom in on specific areas of a slide for emphasis.
This online presentation software allows multiple users a blank canvas to create dynamic presentations.
I chose it because you can import slides from a slide show or a PowerPoint presentation and use its animation capabilities to easily create a more visually appealing presentation.
Prezi is an online presentation creation site. The site allows you to create presentation that zoom in and out, include imported items, and the show the presentation on or offline. The creative potential is placed in the hands of the learner.
This site was chosen over the others because it offers more features.
Use Prezi to create professional quality presentations. Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Reuse images or the content of entire slides from easy to use galleries. You can access them from any computer and collaborate on a centralized web document.
* Brief description of Web site: A free cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides and makes a presentation 'zoom.'
*Brief explanation of why you found this site to be better than others you found: Besides the fact that this is a free resource, can create presentations to present online or offline, import various media (i.e. PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos) into presentations, and collaborate in real time with other users.
This is a great presentation tool, allowing user to create and share presentation online and offline. Prezi is one of the pest presentation tools I have found, as it allows the import of various multimedia materials, including PowerPoint slides, images, videos, pdf files. Also, it facilitates the creation of storylines using frames. The site also includes access to millions of prezis created by other users on various topics.
Prezi (http://prezi.com/) allows the user to create a dynamic presentation using words, pictures, special relationships and movement to create an interactive presentation. Prezi's can be downloaded or saved on in the users account until the presentation. The user can also allow others to view their presentation or keep them private. Prezi is a free site in which interactive presentations are made possible. Prezi is much more dynamic than a PowerPoint presentation and as long as you have internet access you do not have to worry about the computer you are using having the same version of PowerPoint.
Unlike most presentation software, Prezi does a good job of organizing and sharing ideas, while drawing a clear connection between content. When explaining production elements it helps to be able to see the whole picture from script to distribution. Prezi offers the ability to focus on each part and zoom out to view the full picture.
* Prezi is a web based presentation tool similar to PowerPoint slides, except with a non-linear format that makes it fun to create and present ideas along with making connections between them. Prezi is also a tool for demonstrating new information to enhance the learning process along with providing mobile sharing and collaborative resources. * I found Prezi to be better than other presentation websites because it is more effective at creating engaging presentations and works from any device with Internet browsing capabilities, which will enhance the possibilities for teachers in my workshop to utilize different mobile devices during my presentation.
What it is: Prezi is an online presentation software that allows collaboration among multiple users to create unique multimedia presentations.
Why it's better: Instead of a traditional slide presentation, Prezi provides a platform to create presentations that are as creative as each individual user. Images, sounds, videos, and text can all be mixed together to create the most effective presentation possible.
Prezi is a presentation tool that can either be created online or offline. It offers collaboration among users and has zoom features to highlight information. Presentations can be viewed from a desktop, iPad, or iPhone. One way that Prezi can be used for essential learning is to segment a presentation to make it learner-paced. This website offers a better product for keeping learners engaged.
This multimedia artifact is a video that demonstrates how to effectively use clickers in the classroom. The video takes educators through a series of steps on using the clickers to promote a higher level of engagement with students. The steps include: how to create a good question, how to foster peer discussions, wrapping up the lesson, and moving forward. I believe this video is a more learner-centered approach to multi-media design as the focus is helping educators reach a deeper level of understanding on how to create a lesson for students that just happens to use clickers as a tool for delivery. A learner-centered approach should expand our cognitive capabilities and the technology is the tool. Mayer (2009)
This video offers a visual tutorial for UDL BookBuilder beginners. This video also offers information about the available processes in a step-by-step presentation. It defines ways that UDL BookBuilder reaches individual learners through various techniques.
This website is a great introduction piece to get your learners interested in the product they will be producing. It is a great step-by-step video to help them understand the process they will be following.
Learn Teacher Tube in 5 minutes. Video gives you steps for learning about teacher tube in your classroom. This is accomplishing both learner and technology centered approach. The potential for using teacher tube in the classroom to engage students is enormous. This can be used as learner centered when students are learning to use teacher tube. This would be technology centered as it.
Mayer states that, "Technology centered approaches begin with the functional capacities of multimedia and ask, "How can we use these capabilities of multimedia presentations? (2009, p. 19)"
References
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
A student used GoAnimate to do a project for school. This video is her interpretation on how to teach about MASS.
This shows you can use GoAnimate to complete projects in an educational setting.
This video includes closed captioning with audio and video, allowing the learner to experience how a screen reader works and sounds, again following Mayer's dual channel theory, fostering meaningful learning through lecture and example. Understanding how a screen reader works and sounds provides instructors with a deeper understanding of the challenges those with sight impairments must overcome in learning online content. This allows instructors to create content, providing more effective knowledge transfer through this technology.
This webinar suggests 10 reasons for incorporating ADA compliance. It provides active learning based on Mayer's dual processing incorporating audio and visual channels. However, the active learning of this presentation is low. Much of the information presented contains extraneous information and this is a very long, slow-moving webcast. Even still, the information contained is useful and appropriate.
