Plan

1. How will you include Mayer’s principle of active processing in your authentic assessment activity? Students will have to use prior writing knowledge combined with newly learned information to complete the activity. What kind of product will your participants create to demonstrate their learning using multimedia technology? The learners will write a reflective essay about the workshop.

2. What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key concepts and skills to your participants (video, PowerPoint, podcast, screencast, interactive tutorial, or other)? I will use a video created from a PowerPoint presentation. How will you include Mayer’s principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation? My primary goal in including these principles will be to make sure that for my presentation I don’t over the capacity of the learner. I will use pictures and spoken text. In addition, I will make sure that the information is presented in segments.

3. What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop? A mind map will give the learners visual and written understanding of the major concepts discussed in the class.

4. What concepts in your presentation will require pre-training before you begin the workshop? There won’t be any concepts that necessarily require pre-training. However, I would like the learners to be able to measure their learning from beginning to end. I also would like to see how prepared the learners to be understand the need for the course as well as the potential learning curve. Lastly, I would like to know whether or not I will need to adjust the time any of the topics due to the need or lack of need of the learners. How will you use multimedia to engage your learners during the pre-training phase? By using software such as MyStudiyo or Quizstar.

5. What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)? The needed equipment will be laptops for the participants, Internet connections, a projector for the presentation, a whiteboard and access to a printer.

6. What online applications might you use? The online applications will authorSTREAM for the PowerPoint presentation, mind map software, and an application for testing.

7.How will your participants collaborate on their projects? They will collaborate together after certain section of the workshops. Their collaboration will be done using wikis. How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop? The groupings will be random and will remain consistent throughout the workshop.