Strategies for Using Multimedia

💠💠Strategies for Using Multimedia💠💠

Combining Modern Teaching Methods With Traditional Teaching Methods

& A multimedia program can provide immediate feedback on the correctness of the learner’s response.

& Teachers should combine their strong points with modern teaching methods, which not only raise classroom teaching quality and efficiency, but also improve teaching and learning environment between teacher and students.

Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching

 & The option to provide guidance only when needed makes it possible for computers to support learning flexibly.

&  Multimedia enables students manipulate and create material to learn by doing. But when wr use computers in the teaching, we should understand they can only assist but cannot take place of all the other teaching methods.

Building the Idea Relationship Between Teachers and Students

& Teachers should play a leading role in the teaching.

& There is a movement towards learner-centered approaches Thus, students became learning subjects.

Strengthening Teacher Training

&  Multimedia assisted English teaching requires teachers with multimedia computer operating experience.

& The teachers should be trained with the use of modern equipment.

& They should be familiar with the operation.

&They should be expert in one thing and good at many.

& They should know well about modern educational theories and techniques.

The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching

(1)Scientific principles. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any errors;  

(2)Subsidiary principle. We must always adhere to: Although multi-media teaching has many advantages, it is only a supplementary means, and does not substitute for the role of people;

(3) Interactivity principle. More interactivity between teachers and students, students and multimedia, more effective results we will have;

(4) Combination principle. Combine the advantages of modern teaching and the traditional teaching organically.

The Multimedia Teaching

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📣Advantages

Arousing the students’ interest

ëTeachers should try their students to become interest in one topic of knowledge point, and make the students this kind of media which can show with a strong passion and enthusiasm to participate in teaching.

ëMulti-media teaching can not stimulate students' interest in learning, but also make teaching becomes vivid and lively.

Improving students' self-learning ability

ëThe most important thing is teaching students how to learn and making students m "want me to study" to "I want to learn" in thinking, from passive learning to active learning.

 ëThe use of multimedia will be conducive to transition for students from the traditional passive learning to active state for independent study.

Improving students' innovative ability

ëThe teachers should pay attention to tap the imagination of students. To use multimedia achieve the desired results and find unlimited resources in textbooks.

Cultivating students’ communication skills.

ëMany students get a fixed, isolated knowledge points from textbooks, but the ability of using these knowledge points to the real life of capacity is relatively poor.

 ë We can create real-life scenes in the classroom. It is not only to shorten the distance between teaching and practice and give students the opportunity to use English to communicate, but also to satisfy their curiosity in psychology and stimulate the expression of desire.

 Increasing classroom capacity

ëTeachers can avoid using of multiple exchange of recorders, video recorders, overhead projectors, etc.

ë Multi-media teaching rhythm is adapted to the needs of modernization to meet the student’s desire for knowledge.

📣Problems

Confusion

ë Some teachers have directly brought a CD-ROM courseware for their lessons, or copy other people’s courseware overall.

ëIt would only demonstrate the result other people, and just completely ignore the "teaching-centered" teaching thinking, completely change into a multimedea-centered thinking.

 Performance on behalf of the lead

ëTeachers use the multimedia presentation to replace the guidance of teachers completely.

ë Some teachers show the teaching materials as many as possible in order to attract the students’interest and make the class vivid.

ëEnglish teachers may bear this proverb in their minds while preparing the lesson: more haste, less speed.

Lack of special skills

 ëSome teachers waste certain time in operation the computer, the unskilled operation on computer would affect the instruction flow, which in turn would de-motive students if it happened frequently in class.

Over-use of multimedia

ë The teacher’s lack of enthusiasm and creation and his or her dependence on the multimedia technology, the teachers act as sole information-giver to the students.

ë The students under such traditional teaching method are still passive and have no chance to have content thinking, critical thinking of the teachers’ lecture.

Lack of interaction between teacher and students

 ë The teacher in the multimedia classroom are busy with machine operation-computer, DVD player, overhead projector, courseware-which might even get the proficient teachers busy, let alone those unskilled.

ëThe tie the teachers and students becomes loose and it seems to them that teacher is only caring about the machine and they are also focusing affection on the screen.

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The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching

   😊😊The Necessity of Multimedia in English Teaching😊😊

The Necessity of Development of Modern Educational Technology

! The development of modern educational technology not only promotes the development of educational methods and means, but also promotes the development of educational thinking and model.

! School teaching methods have become more inclined to multi-media teaching methods, and demonstrate its superiority in teaching. 

The Needs of Quality Education

! Multimedia English language teaching can enable students to be involved in a variety of organ in the learning process and stimulate the students in the corresponding cortical function area.
! Multimedia English teaching provides a good educational platform and adds vigor for quality education, enabling students to change and update their thinking from the traditional teaching, thereby enhancing the quality of all aspects.

The Needs of Students' Cognitive Mental

! Cognitive psychology studies have shown that 94% of the information learned through the visual and access, of which 88% is obtained through the vision, 12% through hearing.
! It is obviously that the visual auditory organs are the most important informed organs of human.
! Using multimedia teaching is very necessary, especially in English teaching; only effective co-ordination of multimedia can better complete the teaching task. 

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The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching

The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching

The Definition of Multimedia
          The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way. When we talk about multimedia, a term CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) should not be ignored.

Components of Multimedia
         Multimedia is composed of various components: text, graphics, animation, sound, and video components can contribute differentially to the learning of material
Text       " We can use ordinary text or various typographic effects for emphasis or clarification in English teaching.

" Teachers can use different font size, color, and style to prcsent information emphasize a certain word or phrase.

Graphics " it refers to images and pictures, such as chart, diagram, and photograph, which contain no movement.

" Graphics plays a very important role in language teaching process.

Animation" Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.

" Teachers can highlight key knowledge points and heighten students' motivation

Sound" It is speech, music, or any other sound that is stored and produced by computers.

" Teacher can use more vivid and fruitful sound to help students’English learning.

 Video  " Video can offer more vivid information. But it will consume more storage space than animation.

The setting of Multimedia Classroom

To ensure that readers can obtain a better understanding of multimedia English teaching, an illustration of typical one-multimedia-PC classroom setting is vital and necessary.
(1) MPC multimedia personal computer;
(2) VCD/DVD player video compound disk/digital video disk;
(3) Amplifier and Hi-Fi acoustic system;
(4) overhead slide projector;
(5) Screen/curtain; Projecting apparatus;
(7) The Internet access;
(8) Cassette tape recorder,
(9) Camera recorder.