Audiovisual Equipment and Instructional Media
1 Credit
Dr. Tom Sawyer (775) 784-4971 Office in LRC, COE 1024
E-mail: tws@unr.edu M-F, 9am-4pm
Syllabus
The philosophy of this course is based on the attitude that students must enjoy the experience and achieve success in their early attempts at creating media materials for instruction. When this occurs they are more 1
1. Purpose
The course is designed to provide students with the reasons for using media in instruction and to encourage them to do so.
a) to provide instruction and resources for students to create instructional media
b) to have them experience success in creating materials
c) to share plans of how to use various forms of media when presenting specific lessons
2. Objectives
a) students will experience communication situations with and without the use of media
b) students will develop skills in the construction of various media materials
c) students will demonstrate their skills in the operation of various media equipment
d) students will display their ability to select and use media to support a lesson
3. Expectations
a) willingness to participate fully in class projects, assignments, and presentations
b) attendance is essential and expected
c) completion of all projects and assignments
d) prerequisite: education major
4. Course Assignments
a) eight projects satisfactorily completed
b) one library assignment paper
c) one demonstration of equipment use
d) one class presentation
5. Grading
a) all assignments must be turned in and be of satisfactory quality
b) effort must be displayed on all projects
c) 100% of assignments must be completed to meet the criteria for A
d) one missing assignment - B
e) two missing assignments - C
f) more than two missing assignments - F
6. Class Organization and Schedule
Available each semester
Instructional videos for each project are on reserved in the LRC.
7. Class Projects
The purpose of these projects is to have the students learn that they can make materials to enhance instruction. Each project is introduced by a videotape and accompanied by a note sheet. After viewing the tape and following the notes each student creates the item presented by the tape.
8. Library Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for the student to become familiar with the Learning and Resource Center. The student will select a topic for a lesson/unit. Using the computerized catalogue, the student will discover what materials are available in that content area. Then the student will locate and review some of these materials. A one-page paper will be submitted describing the event and what was discovered.
9. Class Presentation
The structure of this assignment is to select a topic and then locate and/or make media which can be used to enhance the lesson. Samples of the media are to be displayed to the class as part of the presentation. The setting is a situation in which peers are sharing ideas about how to teach lessons. This is not a demonstration lesson.
The purpose of the class presentation is twofold. First, each student will go through the process of selecting a piece of content to teach and then discover instructional media which can be used to enhance the lesson. Second, each student in the class, by observing these presentations, will receive numerous ideas about media resources and how to use them to present specific lessons. The presentation may be made by one, two, or three people.