Multimedia project and Final blog

Multimedia Project Summary:
Description:
This multimedia project will be a collection of web pages that will have videos, films and pictures, with the right description and/or caption where needed. There will be texts, biography, links to museums and libraries to allow students to navigate to do their own research.
It will have a Teacher support link to lesson plans, to texts, and to a discussion board, to discuss, to create assignments, and to interchange lessons plan.
There will be student friendly pages where students will find information, vidcast, animated pictures, motivational tasks, interactive games, and pop quizzes that help them to review their learning or even to create their own material.
Viewers are going to have the option to leave a comment and to contact us via email.
Audience: High School, College, Ed. Middle School
Technical Format: HTML/text
Technical Requirements: web capability, Flash
The design will follow the W3C’s Web Content accessibility Guidelines and XHTML 1.0. There will be a written link, “color scheme and access options” where the viewers can choose between color scheme and different letter sizes in each color scheme.
There will be a link to get “text only” available for screen readers, and a graphic version. There will be some instructions to apply according to the browser using Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox.
I will mark the project with Creative Common license.
What did you learn by doing this project?
First, I learned to apply what I learned in real situation. Second, I have learned to give to the learners the materials necessary to become lifelong learners.
Definitively, I have learned to do a better job. With the new tech I learned I will get the attention from my audience; I will be able to motivate them because I have more resources, audio, visual, interactivity aids. Thanks to these new ideas I will be able to teach my students to become life learners because I will give them the tools to learn by themselves. I will play the role of a tutor more than of a lecturer.

Final Blog Post: The Personal Reflection
What is your personal vision of Multimedia as an asset to teaching and instruction? I think bringing multimedia to teaching and instruction is a great idea not only because the teacher can present material in a clearer, innovative, interactive and motivational way, but also because the audience does not have a limited space anymore. The class becomes alive. The teacher and the students can be taken to a lot of places and at the same time the teacher and students can bring art, cities, persons, music… to the class to have fun and to learn. Multimedia has made the textbook incomplete and has helped the teacher to become more a tutor than a lecturer.
Discuss three areas of personal growth in the area of Multimedia.
Web design, video and music are the areas where I know I have increased my growth. Now I am able to present my teaching materials in different ways. I will create web pages that will introduce videos to explain some topics or to introduce a tutorial. With these new possibilities, I will be able to bring music, real life problems, art, museums, history, maps, games, animation, and interactivity to the class. I will motivate students because I will reach all students through visual, audio or another accessibility aid.
Relate how you will incorporate meaningful examples multimedia into your learning units to improve instruction. Give specific examples they will fit the level of instruction you hope to work in.
For instance, I will use http://www.sanfermin.com/index.php/en/ with all the links, video and picture to help the students to understand about the cultural customs in Spain and its roots in Ancient Times.
To explain about Mexican mural Renaissance I will use the web page about Diego Rivera http://diegorivera.com/index.php where I can use the videos, information, pictures, and links to obtain more in depth knowledge.
To show my students some examples of Mexican food I will use this video http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4TSHB_enUS300US300&q=Mexica+food&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=5BCwSaXDD4jWnQfBm5jNBQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
How will you monitor multimedia for accessibility and use for students with disabilities? How will you create or find alternatives for learning?
I will create different options to allow all kind of students to reach the information and to create the necessary interactivity. I will create audio options and text options that allow the use of the screen readers. I will not abuse using pictures and videos, but if I have to use them, I will describe the pictures and I will add caption text to videos.
Identify how you will stay current in the field of multimedia.
I will assist to conferences and listen to online presentations. I will participate on blogs, podcast, or vidcasts. Likewise, I will participate in websites and I will try to talk with teachers and with instructional designers.