Session IV Multimedia

In this lesson, the teacher did a very good show for the use of video in teaching. For example, we watched a video named destruction of a building. In order to observe how to destroy the building, teacher can parse the video and drag the button of progress to make this video like moving pictures. In this way, we clearly see where this building starts to collapse. In addition, teacher asked some detailed questions after watching the video to mobilize student’s enthusiasm to more carefully watch the video.

How to make the abstract concepts clear and easy to be understood is one of the difficult education issues in the practice of theory education. The video is a media using a vivid way to express information. In the educational activities, educational content displayed by a vivid method can help students’ memory and perception for educational content and make the abstract concepts clear and easy to understand. Therefore, from the appearance of audio and video, they have got attention by educators and have been applied in education. However, the application of video in education is not common in my country, due to scarce video resources and high application conditions.

Schwartz and Hartman (2007) think that when used effectively, video is a powerful technology for learning. They described four common learning outcomes, suggested methods for determining whether an outcome has been achieved, and offers some examples of how one might use digital video in a larger, multimedia context. Their goal was engaging reader interest in the potential of video within multimedia for education. Besides, they tried to help people see that there are distinct learning outcomes, and gave some examples of how to do videos that help learners learn. Finally, they aimed for some saying outcomes by providing select facts and explanations about why certain forms of presentation affect different types of outcomes.

Reference:

Schwartz, D. and Hartman, K. (2007) It is not Television anymore: Designing Digital Video for Learning and Assessment, Available: http://www.mmiweb.org.uk/ltnt/site/downloads/Schwartz_2007.pdf [Accessed 19.02.13].