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1. How will you include Mayer's principle of active processing in your authentic assessment activity? What kind of product will your participants create to demonstrate their learning using multimedia technology? Mayer (2009) stated that active processing included listening (paying attention), organizing new information, and integrating it with previous knowledge. After presenting the information, I will have participants create a 10 minute presentation using their new Smartboard skills as their authentic assessment activity.

2. What kind of multimedia presentation must you create to effectively present key conepts and skills to your participants (video, PowerPoint, podcast, screencast, interactive tutorial, or other)? How will you include Mayer's principles of dual coding and limited capacity in your presentation? According to Mayer (2009), people have different information-processing channels for auditory and verbal information. To target both channels, I will use a PowerPoint presentation that includes a short Smartboard tutorial video. This should appeal to the eye and ear channels of participants and should prevent sensory overload.

3. What kind of graphic organizer would be best to give your participants to help facilitate learning in your workshop? Hand-outs that have a graphic organizer (illustration in text) will enhance participants understanding by providing step by step instructions for Smartboard use.

4. What concepts in your presentation will require pre-training before you begin the workshop? How will you use multimedia to engage your learners during the pre-training phase? In the pre-training, participants willl be provided with websites that are informative about Smartboard uses in the classroom. Learners will be interested in the introductory video because they will find the Smartboard use relevant to enhance their nursing lectures/lessons.

5. What equipment will you need to conduct your workshop (projector, laptops for each pair of participants, Internet connections, other)? The Smartboard workshop will be taught in a computer lab. Each participant will need a laptop and internet access. A Smartboard with internet access must also be available for the demonstration and for the authentic assessment activities.

6. What online applications might you use? Teachertube and youtube applications will be used.

7. How will your participants collaborate on their projects? How will you group them to create authentic assessment in your workshop? To collaborate with each other on their projects, participants will use their university emails to share their ideas. Also, if needed, a discussion board can be created in the Blackboard learning system at the university for participants to use to share ideas. The workshop participants are professors in the department of nursing. Each professor has a partner in the department who co-teaches their prospective subject matter. For the authentic assessment, each professor will be grouped according to their current teaching partners in the nursing program.