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1. 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?

Intergrative cognitive processing— According to Mayer, (2009, p. 22) well-designed multimedia instructional messages can promote active cognitive processing in learners even when they seem to be behaviorally inactive.—The participants will research and discuss the possibilities of improving classroom management skills to ease the frustrations teacher face in the classroom. By creating a wiki, the participants will be creating a nurturing environment for teachers in crisis to refer to for advice and direction to maintain a positive learning environment in their classrooms. Their wikis will be displayed and explained through a PowerPoint presentation for the other workshop participants to review.

2. 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?

PowerPoint will enable me to display key points that participants will need to focus on to meet the goal of the workshop. Visually, participants will see the important key points. Auditory, students will hear narration that expands on the key points.

3. What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop?

A graphic organizer using the website bubbl.us will give the participants the opportunity to see what the big picture is, and how the components will all tie in together to attain the goal of improving classroom management.

4. 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?

An icebreaker will take place the first 15-20 minutes of the workshop, to find out what prior knowledge and experience the participants are bringing to the workshop. A demonstration will take place for the next 30 minutes of what a wiki site looks like, and how to use it will be done with the InFocus projector. A demonstration of what a PowerPoint presentation looks like, and how to set one up will be done as well. 5. What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)? Infocus projector, laptops, internet connection 6. What online applications might you use? List of websites with classroom management techniques and software, listed in Diigo account; 7. How will your participants collaborate on their projects? How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop? Students will collaborate in class discussions and activities. They will be grouped by administrator with teacher to form resource groups that will allow the teacher in crisis to get varied perspectives.

References: Mayer, R. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.