Overview

The most effective IMPs are student-centered; they take into account the thinking, feeling, and skills of your students. Therefore, an important step in planning an IMP is determining your students’ needs, interests, and motivations. Matching your students’ interests with a project helps motivate them. Once you've assessed their needs and determined the overall direction, you can start planning. Besides a timeline, part of this planning is anticipating the barriers or problems you might run into during the project and thinking ahead about how you might address those issues.

Module Six Activity Checklist

Open the Learning Activity Checklist (pdf).

The Checklist can be saved to your local drive by clicking Save on the toolbar. As you complete Module Assignments, check them off on this electronic copy. Alternatively, you can print a copy to complete.

Module Six Objectives

At the completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Distinguish among types and characteristics of interactive multimedia projects (IMPs) and their purposes in the teaching/learning process.
• Guide students through the process of multimedia project development.
• Plan and implement instructional applications of multiple multimedia and Web technologies.
• Create multimedia projects using a variety of technological tools.
• Evaluate interactive multimedia projects using assessment tools.
• Use a broad range of online resources for student multimedia project planning, development, and evaluation.
• Apply interactive multimedia project strategies to meet the diverse needs of individual learners.
• Work collaboratively to solve problems, give and receive feedback, improve expertise, and share knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Address barriers to implementing technology and interactive multimedia projects.