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.   

LB #13 Teaching with visual symbols

Visual symbols include drawings, cartoons, strip drawings, diagrams, formulas, charts, graphs, maps and globes.

      A drawing may not be the real thing but better to have a concrete visual aid than nothing. To avoid, confusion, it is good that our drawing correctly represents the real thing. A first-rate cartoon tells its story meta phonically. The perfect cartoon needs no caption. The less the artist depends on words, the more effective the symbolism.

Types of diagram:

• Affinity diagram
• Tree diagram
• Fish bone diagram
  A chart is a diagrammatic representation of relationships among individuals within an organization. We can have:

•  time chart
• tree or stream chart
• flow chart
• organizational chart
• comparison and contrast chart
• pareto chart
• run chart or trend chart                                                                            There are several types of graphs
• circle or pie graph
• bar graph
• pictorial graph
• line graph

LB #12 The power of Film, video and TV in the classroom.

1. Why are the film, video and TV powerful in the classroom?

• transmit a wide range of audio-visual, materials, including still pictures, film, objects, specimens and drama.
• bring the world of reality to the home and to the classroom through a "live" broadcast or as medfiated through film or videotape.
• make us see and hear for ourselves world events as they happen.
• be the most believable news source.
• make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational levels.
• become a great equalizer of educational opportunity because programs can be presented over national and regional networks

 2. What are the educational benefits of the use of film, video and TV in the classroom?

• can make the teaching-learning process more concrete, lively, colorful, and interactive.
• more lasting learning because of its visual, audio and motion effect.
• these effect make learning fun.

LB #11 Making the Most of Community Resources and Field Trips

1. What procedures and criteria must be observed in planning and conducting field trips?

• Make preliminary contacts, a tour on final arrangements with the place to be visited.
• Make final arrangements with the school principal about the details of the trip.
• Make a tentative route plan, subject to later alteration based on class planning and objectives.
• Try to work out mutually satisfactory arrangements with other teachers if the trip will conflict with their classes.
• Prepare preliminary lists of questions or other materials which will be helpful in planning with the students.
• Discuss the objectives of the trip and write them down.
• Prepare a list of questions to send ahead to the guide of the study trip. 
• Define safety and behavior standards for the journey there and for the field trip site itself.

2. What educational  benefits are derived from a field trip?

•       The acquisition of lasting concepts and change in attitudes are rooted on concrete and rich experiences.
• Field trips bring us to the world beyond the classroom.
• Field trips have a wide range of application.
• It can bring about a lot of realization which may lead to changes in attitudes and insights.

                           
 

LB #10 Demonstration in Teaching

1. What does demonstration mean?

               Demonstration is showing how a thing is done and emphasizing of the salient merits, utility and efficiency of a concept, a method or a process or an attitude. 

2. How should demonstration be done to make it work? To make your demonstration work, you should planned and rehearsed your demonstration. Your materials and equipment should be ready.

LB #9 Teaching with Dramatized Experience

Dramatized experiences can range from the formal plays, pageants, to less formal tableau ,pantomine, puppets and role playing. Plays depict life, character or culture or a combination of all three.A pantomine is " the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only".A tableau is a picture like scene composed of people against a background, puppets, unlike the regular stage play, can present ideas with extreme simplicity.