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What have you learned in the course about designing instruction from a multimedia perspective? First of all I want to say that this course has been one of the most challenging courses of my educational career, but it has also been one of the most fun and rewarding classes as well. Designing instruction from multimedia was a completely foreign to me and I am just so grateful to have learned the appropriate tools to make this possible. Before I get into me experiences in Dreamweaver, creating and constructing a website, in which I showcase all the seven singular and multimedia projects, I want to talk about the adobe creative cloud and the programs that we used in it. The adobe creative cloud is such a powerful tool and I am so happy that for just $19.99/month,  I was able to download and utilize its products. For this course, we used Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign, Audacity, Premiere and Dreamweaver. CECS 5110 helped me learn how to properly utilize these tools by providing excel
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Multi-Modal and Web Based Instruction

Designing and creating web-based, multi-media instruction is quite fun, but very laborious. Planning and designing ways to present instructions utilizing text, audio, visuals and video- in the appropriate places takes careful consideration and it is only half the battle. Once you’ve got all the files you want to insert, then you take one daunting task of designing a web page layout, writing the HTML code for it using Dream Weaver and then checking to see if bowers actually render the layout you want.  After all the work you put in, it feels quite rewarding, given that you get what you want,  to have a web page render your instruction. I believe that this is the most powerful, convenient and far reaching method to disseminate instruction. The Asynchronous nature of web-based instruction allows the ultimate freedom, accessibility and flexibility for learners to learn at their own pace- despite geographic location, or distance from the actual instruction. Learners are able to visit a
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My Journey of Learning to Use Multi-Media to Teach

Taking this course has taught me a tremendous amount about teaching and learning with multi-media. Prior to becoming a Campus Instructional Technologist, I had been in the classroom for five years and my students, colleagues and peers all regarded me as being pretty technologically savvy when it came to teaching and learning with the utilization of technology- blended and flipped classroom learning. Although I don’t deny those claims, I must admit that I was merely a user of technological resources currently available to the educational field. The things that I've learned in this class, I feel, will transitional me from being a user, to being a producer of technological educational resources. Thus far, I've learned the proper techniques in developing effective instruction using text, visual, audio, visual-text, audio-visual and video instruction. Developing instruction is by no means an easy venture. Adequate planning is needed to successfully design these multimedia instruc
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Video Instruction

     Video instruction, in my opinion, is the best way to instruct a person, or a group of people, a particular goal or objective. When a learner watches a video for instruction, the learner’s brain is engaged in multiple ways, and therefore, elicits better learning from the student. What I learned from creating a video for instruction is that it is incredibly easy and efficient, compared to all other, single modalities of instruction available to create and it is also the most efficient means to teach goals and objectives in an asynchronous manner.      The benefits of teaching and learning from the video modality, far outweigh the difficulties of teaching with video. The only difficult thing about designing instruction with video, is that editing can be quite laborious and it is a bit heavy, front loaded. I had over 30 minutes of video I had to chop down into approximately nine and a half minutes. Choosing the right clips and angles, with the correct transitions and audio with t
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Visual and Audible Instruction

     Video instruction is the most efficient way to teach people a particular goal and set of objectives. Having said that, teaching and learning with audio and images, combined, would be very close to having the same benefits of maximizing learning as would video. Compared to teaching and learning with only text, only visuals, only audio, or even audio/text, teaching and learning with visual and audio instruction is superior.      The benefits of teaching and learning with audio and visuals would be that as a double modality, an instructor would be reaching and engaging a far greater audience that any of the modalities by themselves. The instructor has more flexibility and wiggle room as far as instruction is concerned, because learners can learn from depicted visuals, and those things that are hard to explain with visual only, the instructor can supplement with audio. For example, the instructor could audibly say or explain a sequential process of events from a depicted image. T
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Audio-Visual and Multimedia Instructional Design

I must say that as a student, I’ve always taken for granted the times I’ve been effectively taught with the use of multimedia.. Thus far I’ve learned that in order to develop meaningful and effective multimedia instruction, one must first start with a master plan, then work backwards from the desired end goal. Having said that, it was easier to brainstorm particular projects, than it was to create them. It has been a laborious, yet rewarding experience learning programs to help me reach my instructional goals. Thus far, I’ve learned how to properly use Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, InDesign, Dream Weaver and Audacity to create effective and efficient multimedia instruction. Audio-visual instruction is a very powerful means of conveying information. It activates several parts of the brain and has the potential of eliciting powerful emotions, cognition and previous knowledge from the learners, Audio-visual instruction facilitates and far extends learning from students. From a classroom pe
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Developing Instruction with Audio

Developing instruction with audio was quite a fun experience. I truly enjoyed working with audacity and creating amateur, instructional pod-casts. Compared to visual instruction, in my opinion, audio instruction was less laborious and much more pleasant to create.                 Having said that, I do not think that teaching with audio is more efficient than teaching with visual, or text. Whether the visual and text instruction is uni-modal, or combined, both are more efficient at conveying the instructional message for two reasons. The reason text is a more efficient means of instruction is because when developing audio instruction, one has to first type and use text to develop a script, to then read and record from, and in essence is doubling the work to convey the same material. Visual instruction is one of the most efficient ways a person can teach, as the maxim goes a picture is worth one thousand words.”                 The only reason someone might thing to instruct anothe
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