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TOPIC AGENDA WORKSHOP MATERIALS References

Multimedia Workshop will include the following:
 * Pre-training to introduce the key concepts of your presentation
 * A multimedia presentation of the key concepts and/or skills you want to teach
 * A graphic organizer to facilitate “sense-making” during your presentation
 * An authentic assessment activity, the product of which will demonstrate participants’ learning and the ability to solve an authentic problem
 * A tutorial for the Web tools you want participants to use for their authentic assessment activity
 * Assessments (one for the multimedia product participants create, and one for the workshop itself)
 * Handouts
 * References (post a page in your wiki after the assessments)

TOPIC
 * Topic: What will be the topic of your workshop? Select a topic that will be engaging and require the development of an authentic, problem-based project by your participants. **This workshop will introduce and provide and overview of several multimedia voice authoring tools that instructors can use for a graded assessment in their courses. The assessment project can be a student presentation that explains the students knowledge of a certain learning objective.**
 * Population: For whom will you design your workshop? **Required workshop for faculty, but optional for students**
 * Outcomes: What are the learning outcomes for your workshop? (You will refine these objectives as you develop your workshop throughout the course.) **To understand how to navigate and develop presentations using these multimedia voice authoring tools. To develop a brief sample presentation using these multimedia voice authoring tools.**
 * Gap: What do you think your participants already know? What do you want them to learn? What is the gap? **Participants may already know how to** **create PowerPoint presentations, or collect images and other printed content on a computer, and upload them to places on the web such as email, dropboxes or blogs. The objective of this multimedia workshop is to provide participants with hands on experience (combining their prior knowledge and skills set) to use these tools and have them think about how these presentation tools can be effectively used in their classrooms. The gap may represent people who are unfamiliar with creating software accounts, you may not have had the opportunity to update or modify assessments in their courses or who have not worked with technology in the classroom to evaluate student learning.**

**Agenda**

__**Introduce Voice Thread and Yodio**__
 * 1) What are these tools? Overview of classroom applications
 * 2) Activity: how to create a Yodio classroom announcement and develop a VT learning component/assignment -- i.e. speech of introduction
 * 3) Present a mind map that explain tools
 * 4) The objective of the workshop is for participants to create two brief voice authoring presentations to embed in their classrooms, blog, wiki or website
 * 5) I will create a tutorial using the same tools to walk through participants -consisting of screen capture, images and audio
 * 6) Handouts: bibliography, transcript of steps, mind map and slides

Outline each segment and include the time allotted for each activity. Be sure to consider how much time you need to teach each element of the workshop (i.e., how to use the technology chosen for the authentic assessment activity, present key ideas, and so forth). Sketch out a plan for the workshop you will create in Modules 3, 4, and 5, including pre-training, presentation of key concepts/content/skills, a graphic organizer, and an authentic assessment activity for your participants. Answer the following questions on the planning page in your Working Wiki:


 * 1) How will you include Mayer’s principle of active processing in your authentic assessment activity? What kind of product will your participants create to demonstrate their learning using multimedia technology?
 * 2) What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key concepts and skills to your participants (video, PowerPoint, podcast, screencast, interactive tutorial, or other)? How will you include Mayer’s principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation? **I am thinking of creating a screencast that can provide a walk-through to viewer with image and narration. Consistent with Mayer's (2009) modality principle, the screencast can minimize distracting, extraneous cognitive processing**
 * 3) What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop? **Mind map**
 * 4) What concepts in your presentation will require pre-training before you begin the workshop? How will you use multimedia to engage your learners during the pre-training phase? **Video demonstration featuring how Yodio and VT are used, followed by an actual follow these steps video**
 * 5) What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)? **A smart classroom- computer, ceiling mounted projector, and internet access. Presenting in a lab could be ideal so participants can follow along.**
 * 6) What online applications might you use? **Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or GoogleDocs, ClipArt/Images, Yodio and VoiceThread, Jing & Screencast**
 * 7) How will your participants collaborate on their projects? How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop?

 WORKSHOP MATERIALS Following are guidelines for creating the multimedia elements of your project: Create a page in your Working Wiki to organize the materials for your workshop as you develop them. Remember, you will have a page for the workshop introduction, learning outcomes, and agenda. This content page is for developing the main content of the workshop and embedding your multimedia. Every time you complete part of your workshop, post it on this page.
 * Utilize at least three of the four categories of multimedia listed below as you develop multimedia materials for pre-training, your presentation of content and skills, a graphic organizer, and an authentic assessment activity. You will find several examples of media you might consider in the programs posted in Modules 3 and 4. (Note that the videos do not include all categories listed below.)
 * Category 1: Text and graphics
 * Category 2: Text to audio or audio to text
 * Category 3: Video and animation
 * Category 4: Virtual worlds
 * Springboard to learning: How will you creatively introduce your workshop? This might be your pre-training activity.
 * Utilize at least one form of multimedia to:
 * Develop a pre-training activity to introduce your key concepts
 * Create a graphic organizer (hands-on or virtual) for participants to reference during your presentation
 * Create your presentation of content or skills (essential cognitive processing)
 * Create your authentic assessment activity; participants will use multimedia elements to complete this project (generative cognitive processing); you will provide a tutorial or screencast demonstration to show participants how to create the multimedia
 * Handouts: Include all handouts and resources for your workshop.
 * Wrap-Up: Consider how you will wrap up your workshop to make sure participants leave with enough enthusiasm and inspiration to make changes in their work environment.
 * Assessment: Include either a rubric or a checklist so participants will know what to include in their authentic assessment activity.
 * Assessment: Include an assessment of the workshop itself.
 * __References__**

Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Post your responses to these questions in your Working Wiki by **Day 7** of **Week 4**.