Course: Tech Literacy for Teachers/Staff

Using Multimedia to Report on a Project

In the past PowerPoint was what we discussed when we promoted multimedia. PowerPoint is an application designed for people to create visual support for presentations. It is one of the easiest applications for students to use. Now there are a great deal of applications for creating multimedia. In fact our use of tools like PowerPoint has evolved beyond multimedia to the point where teachers are making choices to use it for word processing, like creating ABC books with young kids, and multimedia using audio, video, graphics, and text for older kids. When we discuss multimedia now, there are many ways that students can create these types of products. PowerPoint presentations with animated text, narration, music, and video is just one way.

Video editing applications are also widely available. A student or teacher can compile pictures, video, music, and narration into a video presentation. The video can be uploaded to a wide variety of video hosting sites and shared on blogs and other web pages.

Conduct research concerning how multimedia can be used in the classroom. The assignment below has links to ideas about multimedia in the classroom. You may use the links provided to gather information or search for resources on your own.