How has multimedia been used effectively to enhance my learning?
While most of my MET courses have relied, in the main, on text based readings, several have included video lectures and other multimedia content to learning modules. I’ve been introduced to TED Talks, MIT open university and a variety of other sources of online academic video through the different courses I’ve taken. Further, the opportunities for my own use of multimedia tools to create presentations has been great.
In particular, ETEC511 – Foundations of Educational Technology – afforded both. This course presented some of the greatest challenge I’ve faced in my post-bacc. efforts to date – the content was varied and the readings were often quite difficult. In this course, student groups were responsible for presenting the course material in a meaningful and engaging way… most did this through searching out contextual multimedia resources. These resources helped to make a very tough set of readings meaningful to me (and my fellow students).
On a related note: I tend to be quite a visual learner; often unable to make sense of complicated technical text instructions. As a result, I find video tutorials very helpful – if not invaluable – when my own ‘messing about’ to find an answer is exhausted. In this course, in particular, these online tutorials have really come in handy – be it Moodle or any of the toolkit activities – when I need an answer, I can generally find one.
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