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.
Description: Creates many artifacts here by which creators can be assessed in workshop content
Why better: More than one type of artifact creation available at one website especially helpful to those unfamiliar with the web.
Description: Creates talking animations learners can use for culminating projects that authentically assess their unit learning.
Why better: Has an educational version at a reasonable cost for teachers.
Claco is a place to build lessons collaboratively where you can store and share all of your resources together with other educators. You can team up and create in real time while asking questions and learning with others. This website even helps align your developments to the common core. With one click it can be shared to students, parents, and colleagues. It is a learning network tool for designing essential learning while experiencing generative learning.
DIGI[cation] is a media friendly customizable e-Portfolio creation tool with easy to use templates. This tool allows commenting and downloading too. Not only can you publish your work and ideas, but also you can showcase development in learning while sharing. Use this to record your goals and document your progress while creating a positive online representation of yourself. Development of an e-portfolio leads toward generative learning through reflective knowledge building.
This site could be used in a number of ways, depending on the purpose and the needs of the audience. I am using it as a pre-training tool to provide some background for the purpose of the workshop.
This is a free visual thesaurus that offers various uses. I am using this as a way to introduce concepts being taught in the workshop and will encourage the participants to make their own.
This is a free site for creating interactive flipbooks from pdf files. This is easy to use, share, and embed onto websites. Great way for individuals to share learning.
Google Presentations, while not the most sophisticated of online presentation formats, makes up for its simpler approach in its ability to be shared and collaborated upon in extraordinary ways. It is easily used for students to demonstrate their understanding and integration of presented material.
What stands out, is its ability to be utilized in Google+ Hangouts for instant presentation and collaboration. It can also be easily embedded and shared across multiple social platforms and blogs. Finally, with the prevalence of students with gMail accounts, most students already have this just waiting for them at their fingertips.
Magisto takes videos shot by participants and edits and analyzes them, then makes them beautiful in just a few clicks. This site was chosen because it is the easiest to use and allows participants to focus on content, not technical skill.
* Brief Description: Edmodo is a suite of tools that allows for threaded discussions, quizzes, assignments, and more that is specifically designed for education.
* Brief Explanation: My workshop is based on instructing the participants how to use Edmodo in the classroom. An appropriate authentic assessment would have them creating their own material in Edmodo.
* Brief Description: Through Google Drive, I can create an authentic assessment as a document and then share it with participants. Participants are able to access the document, make a copy of their own to add in their own information and notes.
* Brief Explanation: I like the easy sharing ability of Google Drive and how I can have access to all of the participants'' assessments on my computer and not have to juggle a pile of paper.
Explanation: This site offers several collections to view but also provides users the ability to login and create their own collection. Once logged in, an extensive tutorial is available with both video and graphic support so users can create their own add-on collection in Firefox.
Reasoning: This site is created by Mozilla Firefox and has the most up-to-date versions as well as a very professional tutorial to support learners at they create their own collection.
b. This site provides teachers with many tools to gain information on students that is useful in differentiating instruction.
c. This site provides information on the importance of DI, information on how Technology can support DI, and gives the teacher a big diversity of tools they can use to make the instruction and assessment more effective. Well organized.
This site provides the teacher with examples of how to create authentic assessment tasks. It is a site which has everything well organized, highlighted and focuses on the important points of an authentic assessment. Helps the teacher create better assessment activities in terms of standards, tasks, rubrics, portfolios, and tests.
This workshop addresses a sequential guide to incorporating activities at a workshop centered on assessments. Comparable to the other sites, it fosters generative processing by providing text and captioned pictures.
This website is a tutorial that goes over the physical layout of a 6th grade classroom. It addresses essential components such as content related material, student work and student resources.