Multimedia for Learning and

Assessment
Education PLC

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Purpose of PLC
• We’re innovating together
– Provide support
– Share resources
• We’re working with students in the same program
– Collective effort
– Cumulative effect (we hope!)
• We’re testing what multimedia integration might
involve for other programs
– Resources, time, learning curve, impact, etc.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Multimedia for Assessment in
Instructional Methods Courses
Clare Kilbane with
Karen Robinson, Diane Ross, & Yolanda
Stewart

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 • Context- students are in their methods quarter- learning
instructional methods and management on campus while
also working in a field-placement.
• Goals-
– students understand appropriate methods for
integrating multimedia with instruction
– Students have an opportunity to PRACTICE integration
within a) a real setting, b) when they have support, c)
with an “audience.”

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Action Plan
• Project #1: Concept Maps to Archive Student
Learning
– Students will learn “concept development” instructional
model.
– Students will use this model with their students for
pre/post assessment.
– Students will reflect on their learning through this
experience.
– We will measure student expansion of knowledge/skills
with technology via a pre/post test ourselves.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 • Project #2: Presentation Software to Archive
Student Learning
– Students will learn how to use presentation software
(Kidpix, Powerpoint, etc.) to archive student learning.
– Students will integrate use of this software into a
learning unit for assessment purposes.
• Students will archive their own learning
• OC student will archive low-tech work for students
– Students will implement their integration and reflect on
what they learn about students.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 – We will measure student expansion of
knowledge/skills with technology via a pre/post
test ourselves.
– All students will reflect on the ways that
multimedia did or did not reveal student learning.
– Students will compare what they learn about
students in this assessment versus other
assessments they implement.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Teaching Multimedia in
Uganda

Adele Weiss

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Readers Theatre: Module 1
• Students will use previously created or original
scripts to practice reading fluency and
comprehension. Along with text materials multi-
media examples (created using movie maker
software) of Readers Theatre will be included as
part of the teaching module.
• Using a laptop and digital movie camera teachers
will preview and create Readers Theatre
presentations to be shared with Otterbein pre-
service teachers.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Literature Circles: Module 2
• Using common text students will be taught to use
Literature Circles as a means of increasing
comprehension. Along with directions for using
this technique, multi-media examples (created
using movie maker) will be included as part of the
teaching module.
• Using a laptop and digital movie camera teachers
will preview and create Literature Circle
discussion groups to be shared with Otterbein
pre-service teachers.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Language Experience: Module 3
• Using prompts students will create text with teachers
acting as scribes as a means of increasing syntax and
vocabulary skills.
• Along with directions for using this technique, multi-
media examples (created using movie maker software)
will be included as part of the teaching module.
• Using a laptop and digital movie camera teachers will
preview and create episodes of language experience
to be shared with Otterbein pre-service teachers.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Multimedia in Educational
Psychology and Social Studies
Methods-Karen Robinson
• My Moodle Courses
• Social Studies Methods Course Web Proje
ct
• Students’ Media Projects in Social Studies
• Students’ Media Projects in Educational
Psychology

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Improving Communication
Between Schools and
Immigrant Families
A Multimedia Project
Harriet Fayne, Capstone Advisor
Mirka Visnjic, MAE Candidate

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

Project Design
Five elementary, Spanish-Speaking Youngsters have
been selected to design and produce a DVD that “tells the
story” of their school, their classrooms, and their
academic work. This DVD will serve as a “Back to School
Night” substitute for parents who have a hard time getting
to parent conferences.

Youngsters, with assistance provided by the teacher-

researcher and Otterbein students in an educational
technology class, will produce the DVD. In order to gauge
the effectiveness of the DVD, parents will be asked to
complete a brief survey after viewing the DVD.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Benefits
• The DVD gives English Language Learners
“permission” to use their native language as well
as their new English skills, to let their creative
juices flow, and to work on an authentic task.
• The DVD is an outreach mechanism to immigrant
parents. Not only can they orient themselves to
their children’s school but they also get the
message that school personnel “care.”

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Using Multimedia to Assess
Student Behaviors

Sunhwa Jung

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Technology integration
Action Plan
–Students will learn how to collect data
using the Palm Pilots to plan behavior
intervention and monitor student’s
progress.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC

 Technology integration (cont.)
 Fall quarter
 Research & Purchase the software (Teacher
Observation)
 Get equipment ready for the winter quarter (Palms,
computer, etc.)
 Winter quarter (on-going)
 Plan sessions to teach how to use the Palms
 Teach students to collect data using the Palms.

Multimedia for Learning and Assessment: Education PLC