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Use of video to inform/instruct students on components of an effective persuasive essay. This learner-centered activity asks students to make comparisons and offer explanations of advertisements they have seen previously. Constructivist teaching also empowers the learner to construct and interpret his/her understanding of knowledge and reality.
 * Workshop **
 * Principles of Writing a Persuasive Essay **

Great Advertising/Clever Ads is one of many sites designed to show the creativity that is the marker of great advertising. The purpose of this site is for students to utilize critical thinking skills to make decisions on what makes a product marketable and in high demand, and what the possibilities there are for the marketing of their product. It is learner-centered and allows students to build upon their own understanding and knowledge of what the art of persuasion entails. YouTube has also generated many great marketing videos that are exemplars of what great ads there are for as many products. Webquests Zunal is a webquest that focuses on both cognitive and behavioral activity. Webquests emphasize the need to provide students with opportunities to think about and work on problems; and also promotes group or collaborative problem solving, which is a tenet of social constructivists. The purpose of this site is to pique student interest in the assigned project, and allow them to decide how they will utilize the many resources available in order to complete the assignment. It also accomplishing both learner-centered and technology-centered simultaneously as it affords students the opportunity to construct their own learning as they locate resources (websites, artifacts, videoclips). Webquest was chosen and based upon the results of a Learning Needs and Resources Assessment to understand student interests, concerns and strengths of participants prior to creating []