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Education Oasis is geared towards instructional design; therefore it's essentially a one stop shop for creating instruction. The site has 58 different graphic organizers to choose from. Not only does the site contain information on creating graphic organizers, this site also can assist with per training and assessment activities. Instead of having to surf the Web for different sites to create one presentation, Education Oasis has more than enough information to help organize any type of educational presentation.

CBT is a great source for development online assessments. The site is geared towards grades k-12 and basic adult education. One think that stands out about CBT is its Assessment Glossary. The glossary is a guide in understanding and developing a assessment strategy that fits your needs.

Enchanted Learning is an online curriculum warehouse. With over 25,000 links to different Web pages, this site can also be a great guide in exploring all your educational design needs. Enchanted Learning also contains a wide array of graphic organizers to incorporate into a multimedia presentation. The site is a little busy in its design, but I think the amount of useful material that is connected to this site is well worth the visit

Zoho Show is an online presentation tool. It has clipart and pre-built themes for users to create their presentations. It is user friendly, simple drag-n drop feature.

The free presentation software allows teachers to insert text, images, video, spreadsheet data, and audio. Users can cut and paste in video clips from any website. The presentations shared online through collaboration. \nWhy this one: Teachers create and share numerous instructional presentations strengthen essential learning and collaborative planning. \n

Creating presentation could not get any easer with ZOHO. This tool is free and has the ability for users to create and present from remote locations. Your presentations can be accessed and edited from any PC connected to the internet. The tool is great for collaboration and has the capabilities of embedding data in Wiki pages or blogs.

Users can choose from a Varity of forms to develop content. The tool has the ability to upload documents, which the tool also supports multiple file formats. With a simplified GUI interface, managing the development of the pre-training course should come easy to any user.

Digital Chalk is an online course design tool that has the ability to create pre-training materials. Through its easy development tool, a user can create a simple assessment or pre-training course or take advantage of there API to design a unique environment to fit your educational needs

This is the best resource for authentic assessment activities for my multimedia workshop. Teachers that participate in my workshop will have to be able to utilize the performance standards from GA and incorporate some of the authentic assessments from those standards. This site is a good resource for all of my teachers.

This website provides ways to and justifications for incorporating authentic assessments into the classroom environment. It provides examples of traditional assessments and provides examples of what an authentic assessement would look like. In addition, it provides ideas for implementing authentic assessments and guidelines for genterating them. This site would be useful to teachers that are new to incorporating authentic assessments within the classroom.

Elluminate Live allows teachers/students to work in synchronous and asynchronous environments. It also allows teachers to create interactive learning opportunities by utilizing a SmartBoard or ActivBoard. The only problem is that you have to purchase a subscription to the software, but you can use a 30 day free trial to create the presentation.

Jeopardy Labs provides a web-based jeopardy game template for users to create or browse others' created games for use in the classroom. This is a must for alternate assessment activities, and one which I enjoy using especially in preparation for state-mandated tests.

from Concordia, hundreds of choices, divided into grade level and subject categories, pdf printables, short paragraph on each concept map for application, some are customizeable in highlighted areas of pdf before printing,

This website offers a variety of graphic organizers that can be implemented into the classroom. There are pre-made organizers and blank templates that can be used. These graphic organizers can be implemented in all content areas.

Teacher Vision is a good site to print off graphic organizers that are already created. It allows teachers to focus the type of graphic organizer to the age level of their students. This will be helpful because I am dealing with teachers that teach grade levels K-5 and students' with special needs.

Camtasia Studio offers a free 30 day trial, but purchasing is so worth it! This program from TechSmith allows the user to edit video and capture screen images. As a video editing program, the user can incorporate video, audio, images, stills, in a user-friendly medium. This program is easier to use than most, which is why I choose this as best of its kind.

Camtasia allows you to create interactive videos easily. The most alluring factor of this site is the fact that "… you can create interactive training and support videos that are on-demand for instant viewing. Screencasts are quick, easy, and inexpensive to produce. They're perfect for rolling out new software, orienting new staff, showing customers how to use your product, or establishing a "self-help" desk" (Camtasia, 2011).

Students can use this survey to help to identify themselves as a learner. Especially great for teachers who seldom occupy the role as student! I like this tool especially for its simplicity; with only 27 questions, users get information on learning styles based on their results from the survey.

Blogger This site is a good site for creating a blog. Particpants of my course will be required to create a blog. This blog woud be a generative learning assignment becasue particpants are activly involved. This blog allows for uploads of videos and pictures both of which will be required in particpants' final project. Blogger is a free site and simple to learn and use. Participants will need a Goggle account to have a blogger blog. This blog site has a variety of templates to use in designing their blog.

Wordpress http://wordpress.com/ Participants wll use this site to create their own Worpress blog with multimedia added. This will be a generative learning assignment because the participants will be creating their own blog. The blogs will be designed for their students. I chose this site because it is free and they can use their own e-mail account and not have to create a new Google account. Also Wrodpress is not a site blocked by our school system.