Lesson plan incorporating multimedia approaches and communication strategies

multimedia comm. Plan Subject Area: Journalism & Mass Communications

Grade Level: College Senior

Multimedia Communication

Lesson Title: The Understanding, Approaches, and Concepts to Multimedia Communications

Understand the meaning of multimedia communications and the different branches and what they do in today's society, understand the history of communications and how the internet and technology has changed the world and the way we communicate, the importance and the basic steps to how audio-video invention, photography, web page development, and graphic design all assist people in communicating online, learn the general concepts to computer circulation and construction and screen writing, the roles and skills needed in English composition and speech and its important part of multimedia communications

Materials/Resources Needed: Multimedia & Communications textbook and/or eBook, Computer with internet and ability to have a certain bandwidth to participate in online classroom participation and assignments

Anticipatory Set: Review previous classroom knowledge and assignments, Openly discuss and read in the text on the given lesson of the day, talk openly about examples and problem solving steps and issues in the lesson, allow time for reading and other in class activities, leave everyday with thought or situation to think about to either write/review outside the classroom to review and turn in to the instructor by the next class

Objective/Purpose: Know the history, meaning, and the way technology has changed the way we define and use multimedia communications and different types networking, basic audio-video functions and steps, overview and practicing presentations online and how photography can affect the way we communicate and apply it to our tasks, understanding the process of building a web page, overview of the internet and website content and writing, how to apply English skills and language to improve the communication of multimedia operations

Input: Must have basic knowledge and have already taken the Intro to Communications 101, English Composition I & II, and Understanding the Computer & Internet Technology so you can continue to learn about how these different functions apply to journalism and mass communications to work together in your future career

Model: Students will be given a syllabus at the beginning of class to follow

Check for Understanding: All graded assignments will be returned with thorough explanations