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// Multimedia design – Aaron Kapaun //

When considering the best way to engage our learners, it is important to as the following questions in order to create the most effective strategy to help them comprehend the material.

1) “What is the best way to introduce the content to a learner?” 2) “What is the best way to implement your instructional strategies?” 3) “How can you cue the learner to the most important information?” 4) “Should you use pictures with your instruction?” (Morrison, Ross, Kalman, & Kemp, 2011)


 * Some considerations for message design using PowerPoint (PPT) or other multimedia Include: **

Considering or learners are teachers/instructors themselves, it is critical we identify the best ways to approach a broad audience of learners, yet that have the same common career and goal for using our instruction.

Prezi is an effective way to state the objectives, goals and tasks to be learned. One advantage to using Prezi is the easy accessibility to incorporating multimedia components to enhance the learner’s comprehension of the text. Prezi however may be restrictive in allowing our learners to explore how the material best suits their individual needs.

“There is a general consensus that illustrated text is a conducive method to learning the related text information. Pictures help readers learn the text information that was illustrated” (Morrison, Kemp, et. al, 2011). In addition to illustrations, graphics and pictures to enhance our text design and instruction, video examples that demonstrate product outcomes reinforce the objective tasks by giving examples of what is needed, or provide resource locations for our learners to explore additional topic information as needed during their application of PBL.


 * Multimedia technologies to be incorporated to strengthen the instructional effectiveness of Project-Based Learning and Assessment: **

// Directing our Learners to multimedia resources //

In addition to presenting our material through Prezi, which can serve as useful instructional tools, a wide variety of multimedia resources can be used to improve the quality of education and learner comprehension.

During the learning process, we want our teachers to seek out additional resources that best fit their specific are of instruction in hopes that they will find examples that best fit their domain of instruction. With so many different backgrounds, curricular areas of instruction and environments where the instruction is applied, it important to provide our learners with examples by which they can use to brainstorm how they can apply the material in their own instruction.

Two key components our learners should consider in the brainstorming process are the different ways their students 1) best learn new material and 2) what ways they can incorporate technology into their personal instructional use in order to incorporate appropriate multimedia resources.

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To assist learner comprehension, online discussion forums can act as an excellent source to assist in learning/study, or for networking with fellow learners to provide brainstorm ideas. Skype offers multiple ways for students to connect either through live discussion forums or instant messaging, is free to download and install and reasonably priced based on what learners need to use (Skype Review, 2011).

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 * Multimedia resources that will enhance our instruction and the design considerations associated with each. **

Edutopia is an excellent resource and can provide an example of students working in a PBL capacity. Edutopia provides an opportunity for new resources our learners to utilize. Edutopia’s overview of technology states that combining the use of technology with new approaches to education, educators can create a more personalized style of learning (Edutopia Overview, 2011). There are hundreds of related articles, videos, tutorials that are available for our learners to scan and reference when developing their assessments and project-based learning unit(s). By using Edutopia in our instruction, we can provide a multimedia design that supports our topic and also leads the learners to a new source to find material they can utilize when completing the required tasks required in the instructional model.

Similar to Edutopia is YouTube, which is an excellent resource familiar to most teachers and students. YouTube may be a stronger resource to begin their exploration of different PBL examples being it is more widely known and used by students and institutions as an easy way to find instructional material on a variety of subject areas. “Today there is even [|YouTube Edu] and hundreds of colleges and universities with [|their own channels on YouTube] ” (Bonk, 2009).

Prezi is an exciting and easy to use online program that allows the learner to become more interactive in the learning process by seeing visual representations related to our topic. It can be designed to engage the learner and create an interactive design, making learning cues clearer to the SME. Prezi can be used to present //advanced organizers// written in abstract form to provide a conceptual framework for the learner, or as //comparative organizers// which compares new content that the learner already knows (Morrison, et. al. 2011). As a PowerPoint tool, Prezi allows teachers to zoom in and signal text that is important for the learner to know such as: lists of items/ideas, comparisons/contrasts, critical sequential steps, cause-&-effect structures or explanations, definitions and examples (Morrison, et. al. 2011).

References: Morrison, G. R., Ross, S. M., Kalman, H. K., & Kemp, J. E. (2011). //Designing effective instruction// (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Skype Review. (2011) Retrieved from: []

Edutopia Overview. (2011) Retrieved from: []

Curtis J. Bonk, Phd. (2009), //Using Shared Online Video to Anchor Instruction: YouTube and Beyond// Retrieved from: []