Teaching and Learning with Technological Media

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

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