In a Multimedia learning environment, Project based learning enhances social learning through collaborative action learning. On how to craft objectives and learning outcomes for an effective learning process, Reiser and Dempsey (2012) advise to ensure focus on the following:
- what the teacher expects the student to know, understand and be able to do,
- how the student will be engaged in the learning, and
- what evidence the teacher will accept that the student has demonstrated mastery of the identified knowledge, skills and concepts noted.
To demonstrate this, I created a Multimedia learning environment to enhance social learning through collaborative action learning. I teach a foreign language, Kiswahili, which is aimed at enhancing language and cultural skills and to strengthen multiculturalism.This Google maps and concept mapping lesson will assist the students to take a virtual tour and communicate in Kiswahili as they build vocabulary around their host country and the activities they would normally be involved in on a real study abroad tour.
The students will in groups map out the following activities: Create concept map of our tour and activities and use Google Earth and Maps to locate and discuss Nairobi as a multicultural city. Kalamazoo will be our start point and Nairobi, Kenya will be our learning center, while Dar es Salaam, Tanzania will be our co host.
