EdTechWalden

Tools for teachers with specific correlative standards for multimedia use

iKnowthat.com has interactive, multimedia educational games and activities for kids in preschool through 6th grade in Math, Language Arts, Science, The Arts. and Social Studies. It also has thinking games and social learning. There is a progress tracker, activities are standards-based and it is a safe, social learning environment. The site is open to teacher, parents, and students. It is great visually and easy to navigate. The colors and graphics are bright, but no animated graphics. It is a free basic subscription and one can purchase a classroom subscription for $199 yearly. Parents can get an at home subscription for a monthly or yearly fee. Search can be done by grade level or subject.

Google Wave is an interactive communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions happen. Communication and collaboration can be done using richly formatted text, photos, videos, and maps. You can keep a single copy of ideas, suggested itinerary, menu and RSVPs, rather than using many different tools. Widgets can also be used for weather, maps and more to add to the event. Users can participate or edit the wave at anytime and rewind to see who said what and when. Teachers will find this very useful for editing essays and students will find it very useful for group work. It has a lot of great potential!

Ning is the social platform for the world's interests and passions online.People every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, and meet new people around shared pursuits. These can be used in a classroom environment to share ideas, collaborate, post homework, have discussions, and share videos and photos. Great site and you create your own or join others. It is possible to make yours private as well.

This site is for creating worksheets, lessons, and class web pages to publish online instantly. This site provides examples and user friendly instructions for simple creation of web pages and lessons that can be linked to from a workshop presentation.

This site provides a comprehensive list of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This site was better than others, because the list was typed in a cohesive manner without extraneous graphics and material on the page. This list is for websites, but the concepts can be applied to multimedia workshops and presentations.

This is a free downloadable program that is used for creating mind maps for many kinds of uses. This site has links for downloading, questions, screenshots, and a page to explore Freemind. It is easy to naviaget and fnd the information that is needed to determine if this program will meet the intended needs of the user.

This site offers a checklist for teachers who are new to project based learning or are evaluating their own projects.

The purpose of this site is to create checklists for multimedia projects, oral presentations, written reports, and science projects. The checklists allow students to stay on track and take responsibility for their learning. This site has templates for writing, multimedia, science, and oral presentations. The site allows users to create their own items or use items the website provides for checklists. Each page has specific instructions and allows for the user to save their created checklist. It is a very user friendly site for simple creation of a variety of checklists.

This site allows the user to create online thinking tools such as visual ranking, seeing reason, and showing evidence. This site is useful, because it allows the user to show the relationships between key concepts of the workshop. The tools have tutorials, examples, and instructional strategies. This is a site that provides guidance and support for exploration with the tools.

This site allows educators to create a track of websites on any topic to create an online lesson/ pre-training activity. The educator can add directions for activities that students are to complete while looking through each website. This site is useful, because it is simple to use, even for a novice. It also aids the user by providing a database to search for tracks that are already completed.

free software for creating diagrams, flow charts, and designs. Because you create online, this is a good tool for collaborative efforts. Try it out.

Pre-Training 1. Wordle URL: http://www.wordle.net/ Description: Generates "word clouds" from text so that participants can familiarize themselves with words and terms frequently used in the workshop. Explanation: Have always wondered how advertisers managed to arrange words of varying sizes and colors into a visually appealing montage. This software makes the task exceptionally easy. 2. Voice Thread URL: http://voicethread.com Description: Allows learners to look at examples of artwork as a group and to comment freely. Explanation: This provides an ability to get impressions from participants in real time.

This website allows you to look at the history of computers in an interactive timeline. Students love to look throughout the history by years to see what happened during that timeframe. I love the fact that students can point and click but I would also like for students to be able to see the entire timeline spread out. Students can actively use the timeline to see the concept of computers from inception.

This website allows you to look at the history of computers in an interactive timeline. Students love to look throughout the history by years to see what happened during that timeframe. I love the fact that students can point and click but I would also like for students to be able to see the entire timeline spread out. Students can actively use the timeline to see the concept of computers from inception.