Monday, March 14, 2011

LB # 15 Project based learning and multimedia what is it?

1.    What is project-based multimedia learning?
          
             Project-based multimedia learning is a teaching method in which students "acquire new knowledge  and skills in the course of designing, planning, and producing multimedia product". 


2. Why use project-based multimedia learning?

            Because it is "value added" to your teaching.It is powerful motivator as proven in the class. It actively engages ages students in the learning task. Students are likewise engaged in the production of multimedia presentation.

LB # 14 Maximizing the use of the overhead projector and the chalkboard

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR TECHNIQUES
  • You can show pictures and diagrams, using a pointer on the transparency to direct attention to a detail. 
  • You can use a felt pen or wax-based pencil to add details or to make points on the transparency during projection.
  • You can control  the rate of presenting information by covering a transparency with a sheet of paper or cardboard and then exposing data as you are ready to discuss each point.
  • You can superimpose additional transparency sheets as overlays on a base transparency so as to separate  processes and complex ideas into elements and present them in step-by-step order.
  • You can show three-dimensional objects from the stage of the projector .
  • You can move overlays back and forth across the base in order to rearrange elements of diagrams or problems.