The Move to Multimedia

[CarolK]

What kind of training or support do advisers need to have their students make the jump into multimedia news sites?

[ahouse]

I think if our students could attend workshops similar to adviser workshops they may catch the excitement of the media itself!

[daniel_simz]

Educational Benefits of Multimedia tools
(from an Educator's Perspective) :

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Provide students with opportunities to represent and express their prior knowledge.
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"Allow students to function as designers, using tools for analyzing the world, accessing and interpreting information, organizing their personal knowledge, and representing what they know to others."
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Multimedia applications engage students and provide valuable learning opportunities.
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Empower students to create and design rather than "absorbing representations created by others."
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"Encourages deep reflective thinking.
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Create personally meaningful learning opportunities. tech4learning.com



Educational Benefits of Multimedia tools
(from the Student's Perspective) :

Giving students an opportunity to produce documents of their own provides several educational advantages.

* Students that experience the technical steps needed to produce effective multimedia documents become better consumers of multimedia documents produced by others.
* Students indicate they learn the material included in their presentation at a much greater depth than in traditional writing projects.
* Students work with the same information from four perspectives: 1) as researcher, they must locate and select the information needed to understand the chosen topic; 2) as authors, they must consider their intended audience and decide what amount of information is needed to give their readers an understanding of the topic; 3) as designers, they must select the appropriate media to share the concepts selected; and 4) as writers, they must find a way to fit the information to the container including the manner of linking the information for others to retrieve (Smith, 1993). All of these contribute to student learning and help to explain the improved student learning that is often associated with IT-assisted PBL.

There is another aspect to developing multimedia documents that empowers students. Students quickly recognize that their electronic documents can be easily shared. Because of this, students place a greater value on producing a product that is of high standard. An audience of one–the teacher–is less demanding than an audience of many–particularly one’s peers. Students quickly recognize that publishing a multimedia document that communicates effectively requires attention to both the content and the design of the document. http://www.iste.org/research/reports/tl ... imedia.cfm