Working with multimedia: Difference between revisions

|subject= Teacher Education, Secondary

|age= KS4,  KS5, KS3, Higher, Secondary

|content=A course based around the action research cycle, looking at the use of multimedia in education.

|Learning Objectives='''Professional and reflective practitioner skills'''

* understand how to use the e-skills Staffroom to allocate activities to learners and assess uploaded content from learners,

* understand how testing and change management activities should be incorporated into the project and their contribution to the completed product,

* work with learners to evaluate the finished product and identify action plans for improvement of it,

* identify areas where personal, learning and thinking skills can be developed and assessed within the multimedia unit.

At the completion of this course, students should be able to:

* work with learners to create a project plan based on a client brief and to undertake audience and competitor research,  

* work with learners to build a website with images, text, audio and video,

* apply the assessment criteria for the appropriate awarding body to learners’ outcomes generated by activities in the e-skills UK resources,

* recognise and assess the functional skills demonstrated by learners as they complete tasks and activities in the multimedia unit.

At the completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate:

* an understanding of how to use the e-skills Staffroom teaching and learning resources,

* an understanding of the mapping of the Diploma in IT specification to the two projects available as learning journeys for the multimedia unit,

At the completion of this course, students should be able to:

* identify the particular challenges of the initiation and closure phases of the multimedia learning journey and reflect upon strategies to support students through the tasks related to these phases,

* identify opportunities to work with local employers to create a suitably explicit and well specified client brief that can be addressed by students and associated with a project plan.

|related resources=[[Website development skills and applications]], [[Multimedia skills and applications]]

|other=Duration of the course: 8 hours over six weeks.

|resources=http://www.vital.ac.uk/community/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=1454. Users '''must register''' with the VITAL website (free registration) before they can access the resource.