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Topic: The topic of my workshop will be infusing multimedia technologies into a secondary social studies classroom.

Population: This workshop is designed for social studies teachers who teach grades 9-12 and are looking to integrate highly engaging multimedia elements into their classrooms.

Outcomes:
 * 1) 1 Teachers will leave this workshop with ideas for and experience with utilizing multimedia tools to create highly engaging history lessons and activities.
 * 2) 2 Teachers will create a learner-centered and cognitively engaging lesson infused with multimedia technology.

Gap: The vast majority of participants who will take this class will have comfort levels with technology ranging from comfortable to fully immersed. The gap will exist in understanding how to integrate multimedia technologies in a student-centered versus a technology-centered approach. It is very easy for teachers beginning to use technology to focus on the technology. I want teachers to begin thinking aobut the cognitive engagement of the learners and learning outcomes of the activities as the primary goals. The technology should be simply the vehicle used to reach said goals.

Module Two Mayer's Triarchic Model - Mind Map

Devise a Plan __**Authentic Assessment**__ - the second desired learning outcome of this workshop is for participants to develop a learner-centered and cognitively engaging lesson infused with multimedia technology. The authentic assessment must reflect this learning outcome. Participants will create a multimedia social studies lesson that they could use in their classrooms immediately following the workshop for an authentic assessment.

__**Presentation**__ - participants of this workshop will have varying levels of experience with multimedia technology. Therefore, the workshop will begin with an introduction/definition of multimedia technology. For this workshop to be highly engaging there will be a considerable amount of hands on learning activities. Instruction of basic concepts and skills will be chunked into small portions followed directly by participant hands on learning with said skills and concepts. The workshop will conclude with participants developing a multimedia lesson specific to their individual teaching assignments. __**Graphic Organizer**__ - __**Pre-training**__ - pre-training for this workshop presentation will center around the question "What is multimedia technology"? Participants will be asked to brainstorm a definition of multimedia technology as they know it from prior knowledge including what the use of multimedia technology in the classroom might entail. (If this workshop is being presented "live" I will have students pair and share their brainstorms followed by a brief whole group sharing.) Next, students will view a Voki who will provide a brief background on what multimedia technology is and how it can be used in the classroom. Begin Development

**Note** - all teachers participating in this workshop intended for the Chambersburg Area School District have class web sites where they will post their authentic assessments.

__**Tentative Agenda**__ -

Introduction/Pre-training - 15 minutes Breaks ( three 5 minute breaks will be incorporated (15 minutes total)) Voki Trainin - 20 minutes Voki Hands on activity - 40 minutes Audio Training (Audacity) - 20 minutes Audacity Hands on activity - 40 minutes Scree casting training (Jing) - 20 minutes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jing Hands on activity - 40 minutes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Authentic Assessment creation - 90 minutes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sketched Out Plan Questions **

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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? **// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mayer's (2009) principle of active learning holds "that humans engage in cognitive processing in order to construct a coherent mental representation of their experiences" (p.67). This principle will be applied in the authentic assessment in my workshop. Participants will actively engage in the creation of a multimedia lesson at the end of the workshop. The authentic assessment will require participants to demonstrate a working knowledge of the skills and concepts covered in the workshop.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key concepts and skills to your participants? How will you include Mayer's principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation? **// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I will incorporate screen casts, podcasts, and interactive tutorials (Voki's) for my presentation. there will be a Voki tutorial and screen cast for the Voki training. There will be a podcast and screen cast for the Audacity training. There will be a screen cast for the screen cast training. Each skill will be presented in auditory and visual methods in an effort to allow materials to be processed in either channel. Humans can only process so much material in a channel at one time (Mayer, 2009, p. 66). Therefore, all materials will be chunked into lessons not exceeding twenty minutes in length as to not overload the participants.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop? **// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I will provide participants with the following two table graphic organizer for use during the workshop. //**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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? **// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The biggest concept that will require pre-training is what is multimedia technology and how can it be used in a social studies class? This concept will be covered in an initial pre-training activity at the onset of the training. Participants will work on a think-pair-share brainstorming activity followed by a brief Voki presentation on what is multimedia technology.

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop? **//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Smart board, laptop, and projector (instructor)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laptop or PC for each participant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Headphones and microphones for each participant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Internet for each participant
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Software - Voki, Audacity, and Jing for each participant (all freeware)

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. What online applications might you use? **//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Voki
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Audacity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CASD teacher web sites

//**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. How will your participants collaborate on their projects? How ill you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop? **// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students will collaborate verbally during the think-pair-share activity. The authentic assessments will be conducted individually.