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LSE Centre for Learning Technology Using Digital Media in
Teaching workshop Lesson plan, speakers notes and learning
objectives
Lesson plan
Structure
15:00 – scheduled start
15:10 – actual start: introductions, overview, images
15:15 – video, audio, sources of multimedia
15:35 – activity 1 (section A)
15:45 – activity 1 (ask participants to move on to section B)
15:55 – linking & downloading
16:00 – activity 2 (section C)
16:15 – digitising video, copyright and wrap-up
Preparation
Book out headphone set for each participant
To remember
Mention ERA/BUFVC off-air service before doing the TRILT activity
Following the Digital Media workshop you should be able to:
List the Media Resources available to you as a teacher at the LSE
List the learning outcomes and benefits of using multimedia in your teaching
Explain some of the current buzz words related to digital media such as ‘podcasting’
Explain copyright law in relation to the use of media for teaching
Content
Section 1: Why use multimedia in teaching?
Learning outcomes/benefits
Examples of media in teaching
Section 2: Multimedia resources available at the LSE
Automated video lectures - Echo 360
Video training
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Interactive tools
Video projects: series of interviews; role-play; documentary etc
Podcasting
Section 3: Sources of multimedia and translating jargon
Podcasts
Television and other programme is
o TRILT
Organising media sources: RSS feeds
Image and video collections
Speakers notes
Why use multiple media?
Retention: Images can be a powerful memory aid
o Verbal + non-verbal aims retention
o Show Mbendjele example
Context: Aids description
o Show Bose example
Design: Break up text, page more inviting
o Refer back to Bose
Variety: Monomedia can make students turn off.
o Hour-long video vs. shorter video clips. Full Monty example.
Primary sources: Images, audio and video e.g. speeches, news.
o Mandela example
Illustration and explanation. Explain processes, create cognitive models.
o Good for low prior knowledge
o Show Apreso example
Image-based lectures
First-year “Reading other cultures”
All images, no bullets
To show rice techniques (1,6)
To show characters in ethnog. (8, 9)
To show Malagasay script (21)
To show map (35)
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Sources of images
Own photos – use PSP to resize/crop
CLT sources list - return to this later
Copyright-cleared
Creative Commons