Multimedia in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Everyday Creativity: Multimedia in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
By Jeff Beaudry and Barbara Stebbins

• Handout of presentation

• Concept map of presentation

• Design for Learning framework
  

What is it?

Definition

Articles

1. New approaches, new vision capturing
2. Overcoming Facelessness in the Online Classroom
3. Personalizing the Online Classroom Using Tech-Smith’s
   Camtasia or Microsoft’s Windows Media Encoder

Accessibility

Other software > Camtasia for the Mac, Jing, ScreenFlow (Mac), Screencast-O-matic, VoiceThread, Vocaroo

Why use multimedia?

1. Formative AND Summative Assessment - the quiz tool (Barbara)
   
2. How-tos with Tutorials (Barbara)
   
3. Lecture and presentation (Jeff)
   
4. Research interviews (Jeff)
5. Student involvement (Jeff)
6. Help Movies with expert content (Digital Earth Watch) (Jeff)
   

How do you make Camtasia interactive?

1. Callouts > Arrows, highlighting, text boxes, bubbles, zooming
   
2. Transitions between scenes
   
3. Captioning
4. Quizzes
5. Music
   

Planning and producing Camtasia products

1. For the Web
2. Other output (YouTube, Blogs, CDs, iPod, iPad, MP4, etc)
3. On YouTube
4. YouTube edu
5. Portaportal
   

CTEL resources

Resources:

1. CTEL website www.usm.maine.edu/ctel
   
2. CTEL office in 218 Abromson, Portland
   
3. Faculty Development Room (521) in Glickman Library, Portland
   
4. CTEL office in 2 Bailey Hall, Gorham
5. Media Room, Lewiston-Auburn College

Staff:

• AnnMarie Johnson, 780-4540, amjohnson@usm.maine.edu
  
• Scott Kimball, 780-4238, scottk@maine.edu
  
• Sue Goodrich, 228-8001, goodrich@usm.maine.edu
  
• Barbara Stebbins, 228-8598, stebbins@usm.maine.edu