Multimedia Instruction

For my multimedia instruction I created a PowerPoint presentation on football gaps and alignments. As a coach, I have experienced a high degree of transient students due to our school being in a military town. As a result we get many transfers and players overall who don't understand basic football terminology. This multimedia instruction was created with that audience in mind. I led in with an objective and then included some motivation in the form of video clips to get the players motivated to learn. I then moved to instruction utilizing a model of an offensive formation and letters and numbers representing the gaps and alignments. I used animation to highlight the different gaps and alignments I was referring to as I spoke. I also used animations on the assessment portion of the presentation. For the concluding slide I left off with another video clip to inspire the players to use the knowledge they had just gained on the field along with some parting advice. This multimedia instruction followed the multimedia principle through the use of organizational graphics to teach concepts. The contiguity principle was also followed in the use of spoken words and graphics in an integrated fashion as discussed by Clark and Mayer.

Creating my Learning Log

I created this blog using Google tools which I have used in the past for various projects. It is a great way to keep in touch with colleagues and is a way to get your message out, whatever it may be. You can also work to customize the look of the site, making it aesthetically pleasing. Blogger, and all the related tools in Google, are Computer Based Technologies, thus falling under our 2.3 standard.