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Educational technology is one of the fastest growing areas in education. Every sector of education, from elementary to post-secondary, is implementing information technology at an unprecedented pace. Many teachers-in-training are interested in developing their own materials to take advantage of newer technologies in their classrooms.

This course will introduce you to the basic principles of instructional design and help you to apply them to the design and production of interactive instruction and multi-mediated forms of resource materials.

While there is no expectation that you be highly computer literate to take this course, it is expected that you have some acquaintance with word processing and other simple utilities. In this course you will learn how to use the basic media editors and multimedia assembly tools to assemble the computer-based resources. Word, Audacity, Garageband, Photoshop Elements, and iMovie will be to edit and/or create the media clips. PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Google and iBooks Author will be used to assemble the clips into presentations and projects.

It is critical that you be willing and able to devote a significant amount of time to this course at the beginning. Each day there will be assignments and laboratory activities. If any of these are missed, or if you fall behind in the course, like students have found in the past, you will have a great deal of difficulty catching up.

The payoff for your early effort will come when you are working on your final project. By learning the skills you will need to complete the assignments you will be able to spend less time in the laboratory in the latter part of the course working on your final project.

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