Most Excited and Challenges in Future: Blog Prompt

Blog Response Prompt:
What are you most excited about having learned about Multimedia in Instructional Design? What will be most challenging for you as you leave this class and move forward in your teaching education?


I think I am most excited about the multimedia freeware that is available online. I know that friends of mine have complained about having to go spend a good amount of money on Office just to be able to make a PowerPoint presentation or use Word to write up something. I didn’t know that there were websites where you could download such a variety of software without having to pay anything. I think this would come in handy for students who don’t have access to Office or other word processing programs. I feel that there is a lot to learn in the form of multimedia in instruction. There was such a variety of applications available online that can enhance all aspects of learning in education even math which was surprising to me. There aren’t a lot of computer applications available for math other than simple repetitive games like Math Blaster. But I did find a few graphing programs that you can download for Mac and Windows based computers. This would be a wonderful tool for students who can’t go out and buy a $100 calculator for their high school math classes.


I think the most challenging thing for me to do will be to continue exploring the new multimedia applications which are being developed every day. I am really looking forward to the physics application where you can draw on a computer screen and it applies the simple laws of physics into a learning program. Physics and the understanding of it was hard for me to understand. I’ve seen other students who can’t visually understand what is going on and this application will do wonders for the educational aspect of physics. A similar application which is more a game based version, was shown to me available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI . I thought this would have been something I might have downloaded and tried to see how far I got. Some of the levels were pretty difficult if you didn’t know HOW to get it. I think interactive applications and software which are being developed will better prepare the students of today for the future of tomorrow. Another aspect that will be challenging I think would be developing time to start using these applications more frequently to where they become second nature.


Just by a simple skimming through the related videos on the you tube page I came up with a more game based version of Crayon World which is Marker World. Here you control the movement of the ball while still creating balls and squares and other figures to help you get to the star. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcjkCsfSAZM&feature=related These are two tools I think would greatly aid ANY physics class.