Teaching and Learning with Technological Media

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...

     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...

     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 ev...