EDUC+7107+MultiTech+Workshop+Project

Throughout this course, I worked on a project where I was the facilitator of a 5-hour professional Multimedia Workshop. The delivery of the workshop had to incorporate a multimedia approach to learning based on the 12 design principles developed by Dr. Richard Mayer.

My task was to use various multimedia components to engage my participants so they would come out with meaningful learning experiences, while transferring that new knowledge to help solve authentic problems. My goal was not only to explore and experience the vast array of multimedia tools available to instructors and learners, but also to enjoy this journey and discover all that multimedia has to offer to enhance the experience of participants in my workshop.

I created a wiki (EDUC 7101/8847 Multimedia Technology Project Wiki ) as a work space to house materials for my workshop during the development process and a Ning ([|Leasa's Multimedia TechWorld] ) to house my completed workshop. I embedded all of my multimedia materials and handouts in my Ning so my participants could have access to them before, during and after the workshop.

My final Multimedia Workshop -- entitled **//[|Connected Voices: Extending Learning Beyond Classrom Walls with VoiceThread] //** -- included the following:
 * //Pre-training to introduce the key concepts of my presentation//
 * //A multimedia presentation of the key concepts and/or skills I wanted to teach//
 * //A graphic organizer to facilitate 'sense-making' during my presentation//
 * //An authentic assessment activity, the product of which would demonstrate participants' learning and their ability to solve an authentic problem//
 * //A tutorial for the Web tools I wanted participants to use for their authentic assessment activity//
 * //Assessments (one for the multimedia product participants would create, and one for the workshop itself)//
 * //Handouts//
 * //References//