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Welcome to the course wiki. To view the course syllabus, click here: EDT 658 Course Syllabus. If you are looking for the course blog to post/read responses to discussion questions, you will find that here: Multimedia 658 Course Blog

As technology has increasingly infiltrated our culture, it has changed the way we experience the world. It has also raised the expectations of our audience. As teachers, learning to utilize multimedia effectively and incorporating multimedia into our content delivery and lesson planning provides a powerful method to capture the attention of our students, and to empower our students to share their voice/thoughts/ideas with the world.

In this course students will be asked to advance their multimedia skills and knowledge regardless of their present abilities. For absolute beginners this may mean learning to edit a digital image to improve the overall compositional quality. For students with some understanding of multimedia concepts, it may mean taking a risk and extending your skills to a more creative project. It may mean, for even the most advanced multimedia users, surrendering your classroom to the experimentation of allowing students to create using multimedia tools. While it means something different to each student in this course, the goal for all of us will be to stretch ourselves to try something new or learn something different regarding multimedia, teaching, and learning.

=**Why Multimedia in Education?**=

Based upon their lived experience, our students expect a multi-sensory delivery of content. Incorporating multimedia into classroom instruction is one way for educators to meet this expectation. View the video below to hear students speak about the discrepancy between their expectations and the realities the experience in education.

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Additionally, the changes in our society require a whole new sensibility from young people/adults to help them be more "visually literate" as they encounter a growing number of messages in the language of images and film. The George Lucas Foundation, sponsors of Edutopia, respond to this new visually literacy skill in this video.

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Another interesting idea that develops from the exploration of using multimedia as a teaching tool is the concept of helping to give students a voice. Through the use of multimedia tools, students are given a chance to creatively express their ideas and their newly gained knowledge. That can be incredibly motivating to students that can now connect with people/friends around the world. The reality is that their work no longer is "private," shared between the teacher and the student only. Now their voice can be heard by an entire world of people, adding a refreshing credibility and practicality to the work that they are doing. Review this article from Edutopia. Multimedia Serves Youths' Desire to Express Themselves

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This course is made up of seven (7) modules. All of your course assignments are clearly identified in each module. The modules can be found in the left column of this page, and they are labeled with a number (1-7)

I have also provided a resource for you to peruse that lists a number of different multimedia programs and tools. I have categorized these tools based upon the media that each tool/program is intended for. You will find this link on the left: Multimedia Programs and Tools.

There are several usernames and passwords you will need to know to do your work in this class. If you have forgotten those usernames and passwords, click here: Multimedia 658 Usernames and Passwords.