I can’t believe we’ve reached the end of EDU 642 already! Three weeks is a very short time to learn about educational multimedia and the design principles behind them. I have thoroughly enjoyed this class for many reasons. I have had plenty of experiences with ed tech and informational technology throughout my career, however one area that I did get as much experience in was video editing so I was very excited to participate in the creation of the videos. My favorite activity to create by far was the animation video that I used with Powtoon. It was so much fun to work on animating the characters and props for my video.
The one major takeaway that I got from this course was the importance of backwards design. Prior to taking graduate courses with the MALDT program, I utilized educational technology with the technology being the primary focus on how I created my activities. Especially during the COVID shutdown I focused more on finding lessons to keep my students busy and worked the lessons around the technology I had available. After taking this class I have learned to have a clear learning target or standard in mind, and use specific educational technologies to support that learning target. The Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia were very helpful when it came to picking out different pictures or videos to use in my classroom. The one principle that I’ve learned the most from is the segmenting principle. Since I teach kindergarten it is hard to make sure that we are creating activities and multimedia that are engaging but also not overwhelming for their young brains. Segmenting is so important in video creation, giving students opportunities to process the information they just learned. When I do videos in Seesaw I will make sure to break down each topic piece by piece and remember the I Do, We Do, You Do method even when creating asynchronous videos. Overall I believe this course has transformed my teaching to be very thoughtful and strategic on how to utilize multimedia with my class. It is not helpful to create multimedia for the class just to have something splashy or exciting for the students to look at. Instead, teachers should find a way to use multimedia to enhance important targets and lessons and transform those activities to create new ways that students can show their learning.
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