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This site teaches how to create a wiki on www.wikispaces.com. This site shows step by step how to create a wiki. There is no extraneous information or unnecessary animations. A person can stop the video and review the sections they do not understand so well. It is a good start to the creation of a wiki.

This tutorial presents the step by step process of creating a blog on www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com. There is no extraneous information, no simulations, and focuses on the important steps of how to create a blog. It is easy to follow.

A site which allows the teacher to prepare all types of graphic organizers. This site has a free trial version after which the software needs to be bought but it has a great array of diagrams; flowcharts; brainstorming diagrams; organizational plan; flow charts; cause and effect diagrams; mindmaps; floor plans; science materials and webdiagrams.

The site supplies and series of links to graphic organizers for all different areas and informs if they are freeware or trialware. The site provides content area, higher order thinking, multiple intelligences, lesson planning, math, reading, thematic units and writing organizers in pdf format. It also provides links to many sites that create graphic organizers, which is a graphic organizer, that captures and stores online organizers, and that reads and prints graphic organizers.

The screencast allows the person to prepare a lesson using both audio and visual channels. It allows the teacher to prepare the lesson for self-paced work by the students. It is an ideal tool for differentiated instruction where all the students can be working at their own pace and at the own level of proficiency. This site is very effective. One can create good tutorials with good sound, and it is easy to use by the teachers.

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.

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.

Allows an individual to watch a quick video to get a base understanding of wikis.

This website allows the individuals to take a virtual tour of the actual website which will be used in the workshop to create their classroom wiki.

* This is a sixth grade class wiki. This wiki shows prime examples of this which can be included on a class wiki. Supply list, teacher e-mails, pictures, homework, parent notifications, and much more. This wiki will give participant lots of ideas of what to include on their wiki.

* This is an actual wiki of a second grade class. * This wiki is more advanced and shows the participants the possibilities of a classroom wiki.