Multimedia+PowerPoint

__**Description of assignment:**__ For this assignment: Candidates will design a multimedia computer based instruction using PowerPoint Presentation productivity tools, an instructional plan aligned with content/ technology/ 21st Century Knowledge/Skills standards, Information about Assignment: The candidate will design and develop a computer-based instruction within a hypermedia software application. The project will include a lesson plan, assessment activity, and self-evaluation activity. The candidate will select one of the following types of instructional methods for the computer-based instruction: drill and practice, tutorial, game, stimulation, discovery, or problem solving. Components of the computer-based instruction will include the following media: hypertext and hyperlinks, and multimedia (images, video, audio/sound). Information: Designing the Instructional Activity : The computer-base instruction should include approximately 15 slides (The number of slides will be determined by the topic, the number of choices you provide the students, and the length of the topic to be addressed in the instruction.) Include in the computer-based instruction, hypertext links that allow students to self-assess prior to choosing the topic they need to study and a formative assessment that shows evidence of what students have learned. Pages need to include hypertext, hypermedia, and links that allow students to obtain information in a non-linear way. Components of the Projects -Instruction in a presentation productivity tool: PowerPoint -Instructional Plan (template included)



__**Reflection:**__ This project made me realize just how useful PowerPoint is as a classroom tool. I never realized how much work went into using PowerPoint for more than presenting information. I realized that it is extremely important to keep the students in mind while creating an activity like this. I had to pay very close attention to the user friendliness as well as ability to keep their interest while exposing them to relevant practice problems. The PowerPoint served as a teaching/review tool so I had to make sure that the students could self correct any questions they got wrong. This meant that wrong answers had to lead the students to additional practice or instruction. The students liked this type of review because they could work at their own pace and practice what they needed to in the privacy of their own computer. The students asked that this be posted to the website for extra practice at home next time we use this review method.