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Module 3

After watching the three "Category for Multimedia Learning" programs in this module’s Learning Resources, find two Web sites you can share with the class that you feel are exceptionally effective for creating multimedia materials for each of these aspects of your workshop:
 * **Pre-training**

Interactive Dance Site [|www.dance-interactive.com] This site allows users to interactively dance with other users all over the world. This is a great pre-training exercise for teachers to assess the dance ability of their students. Students will be exposed to a variety of dance moves and styles and the teacher will be able to ascertain ability based on the interactivity. This is currently the only interactive dance site that I am aware of…I am sure that over time more sites will emerge.

BrainPop [|www.brainpop.com] 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.

WikiSpaces www.wikispaces.com This site allows users to host free wiki that can be public or private. This is a great service for students and teachers. It is easy to use (compared to other wiki sites) and it allows the publisher to have a lot of control of content, editing and privacy. Students could use this to create a large graphic organizer that they could all participate in editing.
 * **Graphic organizer**

Wordle [|www.wordle.net] This site is a great graphic organizer for kids. It is visually stimulating and kids like the fact that their creations are original. I would have teachers use Wordle to get kids engaged with dance vocabulary.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TeacherTube <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|www.teachertube.com/] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site is a great resource for teachers and students alike. It is a safe and reliable site that provides educational videos that are appropriate for students of all ages. The site is a safe alternative to Youtube but it is not as well known among the student population. I would recommend this site to teachers in my workshop to upload videos of completed dance projects. It is also a great place for students to make comments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Presentation**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prezi <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|prezi.com/index] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prezi is a web based power point presentation with a twist. It is easy to use and FREE. I would encourage my workshoppers to use this tool to have students create the steps of learning a dance. This would be a great way to present the knowledge that they have acquired by using the Wii Just Dance program. I might also suggest that they use it to have students create and teach their own warm-ups.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YouTube <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|www.youtube.com] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site is a great tool for uploading and sharing videos. Youtube is industry standard for video sharing. It is reliable, offers multiple formats uploads and offers privacy. I would recommend that teachers use this site to upload final dance video projects or use Just Dance videos on the site to have student analyze other dancers. I would not recommend comments unless the user approved them first.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Authentic assessment activity**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Second Life <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|secondlife.com] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is a virtual world where students can interact using avatars. Students could create dancing avatars that mimic moves used in class. This would be a very engaging activity for students to participate in. The best part is that students would have to have a good grasp on a dance in order to recreate the moves with an avatar.