Multimedia Presentations

"The world has changed. Technology has changed it. We are now able to reach out from our schoolrooms to any place in this world. The only fences are in our minds."
Singapore Ministry of Education

Who can use and create multimedia presentations?
Multimedia presentations can be a teacher or student presentation strategy or tool. Teacher presentations using multimedia benefit students by presenting material through a variety of modalities allowing students with different learning styles to access the information in their own way. Multimedia also provides an opportunity for creating interactive learning activities geared for specific students and the specific learning objectives identified by the curriculum and teacher.

When we look at students creating multimedia presentations, children as young as kindergarten age can create simple presentations. As students get older, they are capable of producing professional level products with access to basic technology equipment.
What educators have always wanted to do is to get students to wrestle with knowledge. Out of this struggle, we want them to construct their own ideas and concepts. We want them to enjoy an original relationship with data, to interact on their own with facts and history and existence, and then to invent and build their own understandings. Utilizing interactive multimedia in the school environment stimulates and allows for the actualization of this type of learning.
James Lengel comments (Education News, Spring 1989, Apple Computers)

How do I do it? What does it look like? How do I assess? How can I learn more? What is it?

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