Creating Meaningful Multimedia

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Creating Meaningful Multimedia Interactive
Assignments

• 2007 Winter Faculty Institute
• Amanda Doran
• Graduate Assistant, The PRESENT
• IT-User Services

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Keep Learning Goals and Objectives in Focus

• Dont let the technology drive your assignment
  rather, let your assignment drive the technology
  that you use.
• Make it clear to the students why youre doing
  this . . . to help you teach and to help them
  learn more effectively
• -Dr. Robert Lue

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Required or Optional?

• The use of new technology is great in class
  however, the income of college students prevents
  many from purchasing expensive items. I would
  like new systems to be used but not made as a
  requirement.
• -Student response on ECAR study

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Students Needs the Technology Underclass

• Student responses on ECAR study
• . . . I feel that a lot of professors assume
  that everyone has easy access to a computer.
• I hate computers and use them as little as
  possible. Computers today are supposed to be
  easy to use. I think they are very difficult to
  use. I also think people today rely way too much
  on computers for everyday tasks . . .

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Training Support for Faculty

• To move forward in information technology
  requires training for professors. More than half
  of the technology that is currently available for
  use is not even touched. Most professors have no
  idea how to work things on a simple level.
• -Student response on ECAR study

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Training Support for Students

• Profs never teach us to use IT, they usually
  just assume we know how and require us to use it,
  which results in self-teaching, and only enough
  to get by. I wish they would teach us to use the
  programs they require us to use.
• -Student response on ECAR study

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The Big Link
Use of technology
Effectiveness for learning
Student learning experience