Multimedia is a presentation of materials used with picture and words. Teachers use multimedia in a classroom everyday by text, data, voice, picture and video.
These are several ways we can use multimedia through
-charts,
-PowerPoint
- video.
During a lesson you always want to engage your students in the topic you are learning. An example would be if your teaching them about the water cycle you can put a chart up in the projector and let them see step by step on what you are teaching. This engages them because there are seeing and focusing on what you are showing. After, they looked at the chart you can give them a paper to draw the cycle themselves this helps them go over the lesson again and remember it. So you used this media source of a chart on the projector as an advantage to them in the learning process.
photo credited to Kathy Cassidy flickrShowing PowerPoint can be interesting to students instead of just reading straight from the book. It provides short summarizes of the chapter. Gives the visual learners a way to learn by looking at what you are teaching. It is more accessible to parents and teachers for studying. In the PowerPoint you can in cooperate videos, pictures, and charts so it can be more helpful to their understanding. The way you set up the PowerPoint it important to because you need to make it eye catchy to the grade level. So if its kindergarten you might want to add more pictures and videos describe what you are teaching and make it colorful.
Being in a classroom I do see how using videos does engage students in the topic you are teaching. In the school I teach at we use a website called brainpop. You can search any topic and it will give you a short video on it. This website is educational and the kids love it because they think the robot is funny. An example I just used this website this week I was with first grade and we were going to start talking about Christopher Columbus so I out this video on first so the students can get a background on what we will be talking about. After, they saw it we did an assignment on it.
Using multimedia in a classroom is very important in the 21st century. It does increase the percentage of the students engaging in your class.
References:
Maloy, R. W. (2011). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
It seems multimedia technologies are pretty essential these days - and fortunately, it sounds like you already have some experience with it in the classroom. :) I'm always encouraged when I see teachers use applicable technology with ease and even more excited when I see it being used as a vehicle for student creation. :)
ReplyDeleteYour mind map definitely shows a simple use of how this visual can be created to organize information. Instead of an outline, many students use mindmapping as a note-taking tool.