Today in class I had the opportunity to take a quiz to see what my preferred learning style was at it was pretty accurate.

When creating this website to train 9 year olds how to perform magic tricks or illusions, I thought back to my experiences with teaching martial arts to the same age group. Teaching to 9 year olds is not bad, but in order to teach them I had to demonstrate katas and to be able to communicate with my students with their lingo, then I would have them repeat the movements by themselves till they remembered the movements. This was practicing scaffolding. Scaffolding is the process of a mentor/instructor demonstrating a process or technique, then the student repeating the steps, back and forth with decreasing instructor feedback, as the student masters the process.

Now, to the magic! I created a site where young magic enthusiast could come and explore magic tools, tricks, videos, and shops where they can buy cool tricks!

Lets get started with some magic!

Multimedia is the use of media and content that utilizes different content forms such as text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity. With all these elements combined, multimedia designers can create rich and useful applications.

While researching this topic of “Multimedia in Learning Applications” I had a flashback on my past job at The George Lucas Foundation and what the whole foundation’s goals were, which is integrating technology into our schooling system and documenting great examples of schools that integrate multimedia within the classroom. My thoughts on multimedia is that it is the future for interaction between human beings and the way we learn how to solve problems or just to learn new studies in general. I have posted a video from Edutopia that goes over how multimedia is helping kids to learn new skills.  While watching this video think of how the next generation of youth is going to be.

Here is another interesting link that I found intriguing due to the fact that it presents great stories on Multimedia Learning, for example one of them was “Abraham Lincoln and Facebook”
view more amazing articles at www.MultimediaLearning.com

Edutopia on Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters:

Here is an experiment using Captivate CS4. It was an interesting screen capture application, but it is only for windows which kinda sucks, but it is a really easy to use screen capture program.

I ended up making a demo on how to upload videos to YouTube to mess around with Captivate.

Here is the Youtube Demo.