Multimedia design workshop (3 days)

Summary

This workshop offers comprehensive design guidelines for multimedia packages, concentrating on pedagogic synergy between audio and images. It also proposes pedagogically optimum production techniques, together with suggestions for salvaging narrative coherence. The guidelines derive from the facilitator’s 30-years’ experience of producing and appraising multimedia packages, mainly at the UK Open University. These packages are typically produced over several script conferences by a team of experienced teachers who know their target audience well. Over time, the team will have developed a consensus design model. The workshop pulls together these tacit models to produce a framework of explicit design principles, under the following headings:
  • Navigational guidance and student control
  • Use of language
  • Layout and build-up of the screen
  • Relationship of screen text to audio commentary
  • The images and the commentary should reinforce each other
  • Interactive elements
  • Educational narrative: judiciously balance effective exposition by the teacher, against independent exploration by the student
  • How can narrative coherence be salvaged?
For content, see online paper, "Pedagogic design guidelines for multimedia materials: a mismatch between intuitive practitioners and experimental researchers" http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2005/Jack_Koumi.htm

Participants will work in teams to choose a topic and produce a storyboard of a multimedia package (three drafts), while the facilitator circulates
 Day 1
1030-1045 1Inaugural session.
1045-1100 1bParticipants’ introductions
1100-1150 1bJack Koumi: Teaching functions appropriate for TV and Video
am BREAK 
1210-1330 2Teaching functions appropriate for TV and Video: examples
LUNCH 
1430-1550 3Teaching functions appropriate for Print, Video-Print packages, computer packages
pm BREAK 
1610-1710 4Design Principles for pedagogic video clips
1710-1730 5Consolidation of day 1
 
 Day 2
1030-1150 1Design Principles for pedagogic video clips (cont)
am BREAK 
1210-1330 2Design Principles for multimedia packages
LUNCH 
1430-1550 3Design Principles for multimedia packages (cont)
pm BREAK 
1610-1710 4Form groups and select topics for practical audiovisual design exercise: design draft 1 audiovisual package
1710-17305Consolidation of day 2
 
 Day 3
1030-1150 1Exercise: design draft 2 of audiovisual package
am BREAK 
1210-1330 2Exercise: design draft 3 of audiovisual package
LUNCH 
1430-1550 3Present draft 3 to participants, receive feedback
pm BREAK 
1610-1710 4Present draft 3 to participants, receive feedback (cont)
1710-1730 5Consolidation of day 3
....teach on video and how to teach it. Available on line from Amazon....
Designing Video and Multimedia for Open and Flexible Learning.

Published July 2006 by Routledge Falmer. (Reprinted 2008)

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