How to Brew a Pot of Coffee

Introduction

     This lesson will provide detailed instructions on how to brew a pot of coffee. No prior knowledge of how to brew a pot of coffee is required. Follow these steps, and in a short amount of time, you will be enjoying a delicious cup of freshly brewed coffee from the convenience of your own kitchen.

Getting Started

You will need access to the following items:

  • coffee maker
  • coffee filter
  • measuring spoon or scoop
  • coffee grounds
  • water
  • coffee cup (or other suitable drinking container)

Optional:

  • milk/creamer
  • sugar or other type of sweetener

Brewing a Pot of Coffee

Once you have gathered all of the necessary items, you are ready to start brewing your pot of coffee.

1. Open the filter basket holder and place a coffee filter into the basket.

4. Place the carafe on the heating element and turn the coffee maker on.

2. Using a measuring spoon or scoop, place the appropriate amount of coffee grounds in the filter. Refer to the package in which the coffee came for guidelines. Close the filter basket when done.

5. Wait several minutes for the coffee to brew.

3. Fill the coffee carafe with water and then pour the water into the water reservoir.

6. When the pot is done brewing, pour the coffee into a coffee cup. Add milk/creamer and sugar or other sweetener if you so desire. You are ready to drink your cup of coffee. Enjoy!

Instructional Design for Multimedia instruction

Reflection

     For this assignment, I had to create a web-based multimedia instruction set. I basically recreated the design I had used for the Visual/Text and Audio/Visual assignments and used HTML and CSS to present the content. I did not feel that including audio here would be beneficial, so I did not choose to use any audio files. I considered including video to demonstrate the various steps, but I decided that video would be of little benefit but a great deal of work on my part. I spent quite a bit of time working with the CSS in order to get the layout the way it appears now. I used the Fluid Grid Layout template in Dreamweaver. I had never used this particular feature before, and I modified the code quite a bit, but I think this works.