This course will examine theoretical bases for instructional design, and explore several important multimedia production tools. We will create multimodal objects, integrating terxt, graphics, animation, sound and video for classroom use.  LRC 560 students will create computer-mediated interactive multimedia presentations for teaching and learning. A variety of multimedia  tools and Internet resources and research will be covered. National issues and developments in Learning Technologies will be discussed. The emphasis of this course will be on the uses of computer technology in the classroom.

This course will focus on:

1. theoretical bases for instructional design
2. research findings pertaining to the use and evaluation of multimedia and Internet uses and resources.
3. analysis of effective uses of multimedia and the Internet in teacher professional development.
4. development of an interactive multimedia presentation
5. development of interactive multimedia web site for the classroom.