Multi Media Instruction in the Classroom
To: NCREL
From: Ron Helms and Colleen Finegan-Stoll
April 28, 1997
This proposal focuses on the area of application of instructional technology to the existing undergraduate education programs within the Teacher Education Department. The implementation of this grant will support the on-going efforts of College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) and the Teacher Education Department (TED) to advocate educational renewal through the Partners transforming Partners initiative. The following description establishes the relationship between our proposal and the 1996-97 criteria.
The undergraduate classes taken by early childhood, elementary and secondary
pre-service teachers, with which we personally have direct involvement
are as follows:
ED 214 - Introduction to Education
ED 216 - Cultural Diversity: Schools and Pluralistic Society
ED 218 - Learning Theories / Problem Solving
ED 220 - Growth and Development of the School-aged Child
ED 302 - Classroom Management
ED 315 - Elementary School Children’s Literature: Curriculum
and Materials
ED 327 - Teaching Skills / Methods
ED 464 - Evaluation / Assessment
ED 417 - Elementary School Social Studies: Curriculum and Materials
ED 439 - Secondary School Social Studies: Curriculum and Materials
ED 448 - Improvement of Social Studies Instruction
EDS 455 - Nature and Needs of the Mildly Handicapped
EDE 312 - Math and Science in the Early Childhood Classroom
In this day of the “technology-explosion”, younger and younger children are become increasingly comfortable with and adept at using multi-media technology. It has been observed that, often, school children are more computer literate, “CD literate” than are some of their teachers. Methods used to educate these young citizens must keep pace with the children’s skills and interest-levels in order to prepare them to take their place as tomorrow’s leaders.
Education professors teaching pre-service and in-service educators should
be modeling “best practices” in technology-rich instruction, such as:
o Multi-media presentations.
o Graphics presentations.
o Computerized gaming and simulation.
o “Quick-time” case studies in the classroom.
o Internet to facilitate interaction between WSU students and
educators in other localities, here and abroad.
o World Wide Web for research purposes.
o A specific TED web-site for:
- communication among the educational community at large.
- publicizing the uniqueness of WSU’s education program.
o Electronic portfolios -- design, development and implementation.
Budget
Student Wages
G. A. summer 1996
$500.00 {July & August, 1996}
$1000.00
G.A. Supplemental annual contract
$1000.00
Student Assistant {10 hours per week @ 30 Weeks
@ $4.55 per hour} $1365.00
Training Workshops
$180.00 Printing, mailing
$50.00
Meals
$00.00
Travel to Phase I , Phase II sites for media
$380.00 Software (provide
exact costs from WSU)
Astound 2.0 --3 @ $330
$990.00
30 Iomega zip cartridges @ $20.00
$600.00
30 CD ROMs @ $10.00
$300.00
10 Video Cassettes @ $3.00
$30.00
TOTAL: $5895.00
Accomplishments:
• A supplemental contact was posted and awarded for webpage consulting
in August, 1996 (for a G.A.).
• Two work study contacts were posted and awarded for webpage consulting
in August, 1996 (work study students).
• Page Mill was purchased as the experimental software for the student
webpage project.
• Several other multimedia software packages were purchased for experimental
classroom instructional purposes.
• Web page and multi-media instruction were used by both professors
for instructional purposes during summer, 1996.
• Several graduate student's web pages were posted during summer, 1996.
• Web software and page design materials have been evaluated by professors,
student assistants, and WSU students during summer, 1996 -- summer, 1997.
• On Fridays, ERC computer labs were offered to Phase I students.
• Professors' office computers were available to Phase I students.
• Multi-media computer stations were available to Phase I students.
• Web resource development materials were available to Phase I students.
• Web page and multi-media instruction were used by both professors
for instructional purposes during fall, 1996 and winter, 1997, and spring
, 1997
• Undergraduate students were trained in a variety of multimedia
presentations
• Undergraduate students developed web pages (Trotwood--PDS)
• Professors have introduced WWW and web page design to at least 25
sections of education students.
• Professors have presented WWW seminars at many national, state, and
regional conferences in 1996-1997.
• Professors have constantly updated their web pages for classroom
instruction.
• Grant budget has been developed and adhered to.
Effectiveness/Other faculty
Both students and professors have become much more literate and confident
in the use of educational media. Several other education faculty
members have now posted web pages, and several web pages are under construction.
Documentation for this project is posted on both Colleen Finegan-Stoll’s
web site and on Ronald G. Helms’ website @ www.ed.wright.edu/cehs.
Both Helms and Finegan-Stoll have conducted numerous WWW seminars at the
national, state, and regional levels this year. Both professors will
be presenting two multimedia seminars at the American Association for Computer
Educators in Calgary, Alberta in June, 1997. Both professors are
willing to collaborate with other Wright State University professors, to
publicize their WWW sites, and to continue to present at various professional
conferences.