EdTechWalden

This is a great website where multiple opportunities are given in different formats to review and practice computer terms in the format of flashcards, matching, concentration and word search. The participant has an option of clicking on the link on the page and view or print out computer terms and definitions.

Quia is a site that allows users to create quizzes, surveys, web pages, and more. Quia is available for purchase and I have found Quia user-friendly and very useful for teachers and students.

Amy's wiki and multimedia workshop

This is the wiki address for Emmorfia's multimedia wiki about Tegrity.

Excellent presentation comparing and constrasting the learning styles of the previous generation (digital immigrants) and the current generation that is immersed in technology (digital natives).

This site is extremely user friendly to those timid of technology. The free version has a variety of characters to choose from and scenarios to create a set-up, recap, or even demonstrate of a particular concept.

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.

Module 1 Multimedia-SMART Board Training Videos Smarttech-http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/trainingcenter/flash/tutorials/display_frame_basics/display_frame_basics.htm This Smarttech video presentation is a tutorial that introduces and teaches teachers the basic steps on how to use a SMART Board. The video uses a learner-centered approach to technology because according to Mayer, it does "compliment human abilities, aid activities that we are poorly suited and enhances the development for which we are ideally suited" (Mayer, 2009, p. 13)." The required active engagement for this video is cognitive because the focus in the video is on the meaning of the presented material and interprets it in light of prior knowledge, YouTube-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hlgGpVpgWo YouTube provides a video presentation on a "SMART Board Interactive White Board Accessibilities." This video presentation provides teachers with information on how to make the SMART Board accessible to all students. The video uses a learner-centered approach to technology because it "takes in account the learners information processing (Mayer, 2009, p. 9)." The required active engagement for this video is cognitive because the focus is on learner adding information to their memory. Smarttech http://downloads01.smarttech.com/media/trainingcenter/flash/touch%20write%20and%20save.htm This Smarttech video presentation is a 2 minute tutorial. This presentation introduces and teaches teachers how to use a pen and toolbar on the SMART Board

The three web sites that I selected that include multimedia artifacts for active learning: 1) http://www.learner.org/ The learner.org website is a cognitive activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site focuses on using multimedia technology as an aid to human cognition (Mayer, p. 13 2009). It uses film clips to demonstrate the practical applications of various mathematical concepts to real life situations. It builds a connection of what the students are studying to a concrete example (visual) to create a clearer mental picture form prior knowledge to new knowledge that is being discovered. 2) http://pearsonmylabandmastering.com/ The My Lab web site is a behavioral activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site focuses on rewarding students for the correct responses (excellent) or punished for the incorrect ones (try again). The underlying metaphor is that of drill-and-practice system, so multimedia is a vehicle for rewarding correct responses and punishing incorrect ones (Mayer, p.15, 2009). A student receives immediate feedback positive or negative and strengthens a response system to proceed or provide reinforcement of the content. 3) http://webgraphing.com/ The web graphing web site is a cognitive activity. This web site accomplishes the learner-centered approach. The web site provides engagement between the student and the graphing calculator. Multimedia learning is a sense-making activity in which the learner seeks to build a coherent mental representation from the presented material (Mayer, p. 17, 2009). The students actively engage with the graphing calculator along with the teacher

Here are my links to my working and presentation wikis: 1) http://klein-educ8847-working-wiki.wikispaces.com/ 2) http://klein-educ8847-presentation-wiki.wikispaces.com/

My working wiki for EDUC 7107/8847