Planning

=**Planning**=

According to Mayer, we must use instructional media in accordance to the way the human mind works. (Mayer, 2008) I will use the observe, practice, application method to get my points across. Students will observe websites, practice what they have observed and then applly it to lessons. To demonstrate their learning using mulitmedia the student's final product will be a compilation of pages to produce a two page website based on themselves. I will be using PowerPoint presentations in order to effectively present key concepts. I will use Mayers principles of limited capacity by using graphics to only enhance or illustrate a point and not just to take up space. I will make sure the images reflect the lesson and that they appeal to audio and visual learning styles.
 * **How will you include Mayer’s principle of active processing in your authentic assessment activity? What kind of product will your participants create to demonstrate their learning using multimedia technology?**
 * **What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key concepts and skills to your participants (video, PowerPoint, podcast, screencast, interactive tutorial, or other)? How will you include Mayer’s principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation?**
 * **What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop?[[image:workingwikimmltech/graphic_org.gif]]The organizer gives the student the opportunity to list all the items that are important to website building.**

The basic website coding will require pre-training because students will need to learn the basics of coding before using Dreamweaver to create a website**.** In the pre-training phase students will see movies on web development and engage in group exercises that emphasize the main points of website building. In order to conduct the workshop I will use projectors, the internet, laptop and desktop computers, flash drives and several search engines to accumulate information. Google, Bing, Yahoo!search, Microsft Office suite and the Adobe suite for webbuilding are all applications that will be utilized.
 * **What concepts in your presentation will require pre-training before you begin the workshop? How will you use multimedia to engage your learners during the pre-training phase?**
 * **What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)?**
 * **What online applications might you use?**

To collaborate on their projects students will use a class wikispace. I will group them by their weaknesses and strengths so that they will equal out. I will not let high performers work together so that everyone will get the benefit of having input from everyone.
 * **How will your participants collaborate on their projects? How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop?**

Devising a plan
1. Authentic Assessment-The end result of the lesson will be a two page web site about the student. The website will include correct coding, color usage, headings usage and controlled use of white space. The site will abide by the WC3 rules and be able to validate for correct coding and web-safe colors. Rubric attached.

2. Presentation-The use of movies illustrating coding concepts and showing them the wonderful site called whateverlife.com would be used to emphasize critcal points. Showing students the difference between a good site and a bad site will also bring home the points of how a website should look. Lastly, students will be able to give me samples of what they think a good website consists of based on their prior knowledge and as a group we will discuss them and determine if they are right or wrong.

3. Graphic organizer- This organizer allows students to state the idea in the middle and all of the tools needed to complete the idea around it.

4. Pre-training- For a pre-training exercise I will show students one of my favorite sites, Webpagesthatsuck.com! Bad name but it is full of web pages that are terrible and great examples of what not to do. They will also look at sites that make the top ten list of best websites of the year. Students will compile a list beforehand of things that make a website bad and then see if their list match the ones we will see.