After reviewing the article: Web Design for instruction There are many similarities in traditional lesson plans and lesson plans designed incorporating multimedia. In reality when planning a lesson using web design and multimedia we use the same process as we would planning a constructivist based classroom lesson. Multimedia allows us to enhance lessons with the technology we have at our fingertips. No longer do we need to rely on posters,overheads, props or class demonstrations.
I remember my second year of teaching (13 years ago) spending countless hours typing, cutting, pasting and laminating a Learning Resource Based Unit for an Adolescence Sexuality course I was teaching. The overall effectiveness was there but the amount of work was incredible.
This is not to say that designing a similar lesson using web design and multimedia would not be time consuming. The advantage of the web design is that once the guts of the information is there it is easy to change, add, delete and update the information and activities to suit the needs of your learners.
Web design has elevated the painstaking cutting etc. allowing teachers to modify and change things at the drop of a hat, making tweaking and revising much easier, as well as being able to sharing ideas with colleagues. Students are now directed via a homepage and obtain the information in that manner.
I see many advantages; students now can work at their own pace, or in a group where learning abilities have been scaffolded. Teachers can enrich activities for those who are
more academically inclined and offer additional guidance to those who need it.
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