October 26, 2005

Learning and Teaching with Digital Media

The following link connects you to a course that was offered by Dorothy M. Chun & George H. Michaels in the Spring of 2004. It contains some very interesting reading materials and ideas on the proper design and delivery of learning materials using digital media.

http://archserve.id.ucsb.edu/int223/

Course Objectives:

In order to prepare graduate students for future careers in which knowledge of using technology for instruction is becoming increasingly essential, the goals of this course are to:

* Discuss instructional rationales for design of new media, in particular, web-based applications
* Investigate underlying principles of learning with media
* Develop and discuss criteria for evaluation/critique of existing software
* Apply the above principles to the development of your own projects
* Learn to use authoring systems and tools for multimedia acquisition and manipulation

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Fundamentals of Multimedia

http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/userinterface.html

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November 01, 2005

Multimedia in the Classroom

http://fcit.usf.edu/multimedia/overview/overview.html

Introduction and Purpose

As technology advances and hardware and software improves, it becomes much more feasible to integrate multimedia directly into classroom activities and the core curriculum. Understanding why, when, and where multimedia is appropriate and beneficial is the first step toward successful implementation.

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