Synopses & Reviews
This practical book introduces you to a model process "Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate" of designing, producing, and assessing multimedia projects in the classroom.
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An important resource for any teacher who wishes to incorporate multimedia into the classroom.Multimedia Schools
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Enhanced with figures and graphs, this valuable guide could easily have been entitled 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Multimedia and Were Afraid to Ask.' Highly recommended.Appraisals
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For a teacher who believes that her students should know how to utilize appropriate technology in their work in the content areas but lacks skills and support, it could provide useful step by step guidance.Colorado Libraries
Synopsis
This practical book introduces you to a model process Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate of designing, producing, and assessing multimedia projects in the classroom. The authors carefully review each step of the entire process. For example, the Decide chapter has strategies for initiating, managing, and assigning multimedia projects. Blackline masters are provided to help you group students, schedule computer time, plan activities, and assess student progress, and reproducible pages assist in creating flowcharts and storyboards. Media components and authoring tools are some of the other topics covered. Concluding chapters guide you through several multimedia project ideas and implementation strategies.
About the Author
KAREN S. IVERS is Assistant Professor at California State University, Fullerton, California.ANN E. BARRON is Associate Professor, Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, Tampa. She received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service in 1996 and the Teaching Incentive Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1995.