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Faculty Technology Skills
The faculty skill levels required for this module depend, of course, on the type and
complexity of multimedia effects and techniques teachers expect their students to use. At
the lowest level, even minimum word processing skills would allow teachers to demonstrate
how to incorporate pictures, drawings, graphic elements, colors, different type fonts and
sizes, and word art into a simple document. Incorporating site links into a paper is a small
step up, but it's only a moderate-level word processing skill.
Other necessary skills would include moderate Internet browsing and search engine
knowledge and the ability to download and install common "plug in" files to facilitate
sound and video files.
Embedding sound, animation, and video files are also fairly easy tasks, most easily
learned again by following the Help commands of your word processor.
Any additional problems
or glitches might be best solved by asking a school computer technician for spot help.
Student Technology Skills
The same skills needed in relation to learning to incorporate these techniques into a paper
for teachers are mirrored with students. Obviously, the greater the student's familiarity and
level of comfort with basic computer commands, the easier the work will be. Some students may
need to be walked through a given process, while others may end up giving the teacher advice.
That said, much instruction of a given multimedia insertion task might be best accomplished by
a simple step-by-step handout with examples to give students some quick short-cut training.
Faculty Equipment
Again, the nature of this module is more conceptual and abstract than task-specific and concrete,
so the equipment necessary will always depend on just how far a teacher wants to go in incorporating
this process. For probably 95% of the multimedia objectives in question, however, all can be
accomplished with only . . .
- an Internet accessible computer (with speakers).
- a reasonably recent word processing program (e.g., MS Word 2000 or XP).
- a color printer (optional, but nice).
- a scanner (optional; use to help students transform paper-based graphics into digital files).
Student Equipment
Same as above.
Cost
This concept really doesn't call for any special equipment. Most of the tools necessary
are now standard issue in most elementary, high school, and college-level classrooms.
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