Multimedia Learning is a great educational tool to cater lessons to a variety of learning styles within the classroom. By providing audio, visual, and reading materials to supplement or add on to a lesson, a larger portion of your students will register information. However, as mentioned in Dr. Ray Pastore’s video titled “What is multimedia learning? What is multimedia?”, it is important that you don’t overwhelm students with to many forms of media at once. Multimedia Learning opens up the possibilities for project-based assessment as students can go beyond the standard mediums, such as projects on poster boards, Powerpoints, or Google slides.
For instance, I recall in my eleventh-grade Intro to Business course, our final assignment involved creating a video advertisement for a hypothetical product and incorporating certain marketing strategies that we learned throughout the semester. This advertisement project showed us how said marketing strategies were used in a “real-life” situation through hands-on learning and helped solidify our understanding of the concepts, as opposed to learning from vague textbook definitions taken out of context. Moreover, the project acted as a cross-curricular tool by combining a business lesson, a tech lesson, and introducing vocabulary used in a marketing setting. In the same way, Screencast could be used to assess students by having them record audio while they examine a company’s website for marketing strategies. As the instructor, you could listen to their thought process, see what they point out on the website and see how they apply the notions they’ve learned in class. I will leave a copy of my Screencast down below as an example of using it to examine a blog for watercolor painting resources.
A Flipped Teaching model involves using hands-on learning more heavily during class time and asking students to do more of the theory work prep at home before class. This system provides students with more one-on-one help and peer tutoring during class time, instead of struggling alone at home without being able to reach out to anyone. In an elementary class setting, you could use a Flipped Teaching model for science class. For instance, if students were assigned a couple of pages in a textbook and a 10-minute summary video to watch before class, this would give the instructor more time to lead a lab-style activity in class to solidify understanding using resources that students might not have available at home.
