Course Description:

This seminar will focus on analyzing and using applications of multimedia and graphics in the classroom. Students will create multimedia presentations that meet a variety of curricular needs and objectives.

Students will also be responsible for on-line activities and readings as well as off-line, in-class activities. This course is designed to take full advantage of the resources of the worldwide web. Students are expected to attend class to participate in discussions but are also expected to enhance their learning through planned and incidental on-line activities. For example, students must gain a working knowledge of HyperStudio in order to create and present multimedia stacks. Using web resources such as the link above will greatly augment the learning that occurs in class and that ultimately will be integrated with existing curricular objectives.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, students will:

1. demonstrate the ability to create multimedia stacks that incorporate technologies such as scanners, digital cameras, graphics programs, and CD-ROMs;

2. identify potential uses of multimedia in their instruction; and

3. develop multimedia stacks as part of which they will:

   • select appropriate topics,

   • list specific student learning outcomes,

   • identify specific materials for inclusion,

   • identify appropriate multimedia elements and techniques,

   • create a storyboard,

   • integrate material obtained from a variety of sources (e.g., print, CD-ROM, the Internet),

   • include digitized sound, digitized images, pixel and object-based text, graphics, animation, and video clips,

   • identify appropriate assessment of student learning,

   • present the stacks for feedback from other teachers,

   • revise the stacks as appropriate.

Required textbook:

• Multimedia Projects in Education, Ivers and Barron (ISBN: 1563085720)

• The Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams (No, it's not) (ISBN: 1566091594)

Instructor:

• Bruce McVicker