After searching for a while to find a good article that combined web-based multimedia and animation, I came across an article called “Teaching Effectively with Multimedia.” It gave a great summary on how teachers have a great advantage today of using the internet to teach in a new and improved way.
The web combines animation, moving pictures, and sound to be incorporated into lessons to help students extend their abilities of a subject manner. For example, they can watch science experiments in action, see microorganisms up close, and use their mouse and keyboard to navigate through interactive material. Multimedia conveys information quickly and effectively to all students while keeping them interested in learning.
This article exclaims how school purchased multimedia works well (such as CD’s and videos) but they can be limited because of a schools budget. Another negative of these tools is that trying to set up a VCR and TV for video, or CD-ROM players can be challenging and finically difficult. Online multimedia makes it easy to reach out to students. Whether a teacher only has one computer in the classroom or several, they can not only take turns learning from the web but can find the same information and materials at the convenience of being in their own home.
More information and research should be done on using animation in the classroom. Also more articles on teaching and these two topics would be helpful for those who want to experiment with using multimedia in the classroom.
Article:
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=87
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Great post! I like in your post how mentioned that one downfalls of all these multimedia animation programs and software is cost. With all the budget cuts in the US I sometimes wonder how schools have the money to spend on differet types of technology. My answer would be that the use of these progams have been proven to work for students learning. How can these student use this type of technology at home?
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