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Edtech 513 – Multimedia, final thoughts

Edtech 513 – Multimedia, final thoughts

So far so good. I did enjoy this class and looking back on it I learned quite a bit. Much of it seems like just common sense, but when framed with actual research based learning principles, it becomes much more tangible moving forward. All of the actual technology that we used for content creation I had previously used with the lone exception of Adobe Spark. Two things stand out for me. I enjoyed the Clark and Mayer book and reading…

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Worked Example Screencast

Worked Example Screencast

Screencasting is something that I believe strongly in. The ability to take a project and make a less than 8 min video on exactly how to do something, I think is a great learning tool. These days if I really want to learn anything, a quick youtube video is my goto. The tough part of this assignment was to come up with something to do a screencast on that has some sort of activity or followup that the students can do as well. I…

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Overcoming fears – Ghana

Overcoming fears – Ghana

Create a digital story was the goal for this assignment, seemed simple enough, but wow, that was a lot tougher that I thought. I started out in iMovie, and spent a good 6 hours going over photos adding in some video, extracting audio, changing length times and still had not recorded my audio. Hmmm… I thought, is this the best idea or should I look to something else. In comes Adobe Spark. Let me start by saying that I have…

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Coherence Analyis

Coherence Analyis

First, I would like to state that after this lesson, I have this Coherence Principle down! Not only have I read (and re-read) the chapter in the Clark and Mayer book but I have researched this principle all over the internet and spent much more time than I expected on answering the questions associated with this assignment. In a nutshell the Coherence Principle states that in order to maximize learning we need make sure that all of the media in…

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6t – A new podcast

6t – A new podcast

Create a podcast was the foundation of the assignment. My first thought was “Oh yeah, I got this.” In 2007 I attended a conference where podcasts were all the rage, heck I even created a podcast back then and coded the XML wrapper,  (however it was only 1 episode and really never went anywhere) years went by and podcasts kind of faded into the background. When I say into the background I mean for the general person who wanted something…

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Wireless and Haiku Deck

Wireless and Haiku Deck

We are getting deeper into the principles of Multimedia and specifically the Modality and Redundancy Principles. I was tasked with trying to create a presentation that flowed like a story, but was picture rich and text light. Getting folks away form the standard bullets of powerpoint into a new mode is a good thing that i have always been a proponent of, in fact I have been using Haiku Deck for a while (although I do very little presentations in class). I took…

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Project #1: Static Multimedia Instruction

Project #1: Static Multimedia Instruction

Over the past year I have been slowly moving all of my presentations to Google Slides for a number of reasons. It is always online and easy to share and present. It is easy to create and allows me to pull in images and resources using the full power of google from within the app. This summer Google introduced the power of audience feedback as an option right within slides. For me this new option has moved me firmly over…

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Multimedia & Animoto Introduction

Multimedia & Animoto Introduction

Just started ED 513 – Multimedia, this past week. Multimedia is something that I have long been interested in going back to the days of developing Multimedia CD’s even before the internet (anyone remember Macromedia Authorware?) I know some of the tools around the trade but for me it is the how and why that i am really interested in. I just watched the video on Universal Learning Design and this is something that I always want to now keep in mind…

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