Showing posts with label Week 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 6. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Multimedia Projectors: A Key Component in Classrooms of the Future

Multimedia Projectors: A Key Component in Classrooms of the Future

https://blackboard.ohiou.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_23937_1

I have been using the projector in my classroom as a tool for about the last 6 years. I feel that the students have a greater recall when they not only hear the lecture but also see a presentation that contains visual data and demonstrations that enhance the lecture. This article reinforces my belief that this is true.

“When asked how multimedia projectors affected the teaching and learning experience, several areas of influence were identified, including visual aid, greater flexibility for alternative teaching methods, enhanced teacher demonstrations, heightened student awareness and customized curriculum applications.

Visual aid. Multimedia projectors allow teachers to provide diverse content to all students in the classroom at once, allowing students to have a visual and colorful learning experience during a given lesson.”

What I do find strange though is even though the teachers surveyed know that they need the technology of DVD’s and projectors to be a main component in the classroom the main equipment that is being installed is the outdated VCR and TV. How strange and limiting is that????