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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