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​​CHAPTER 6 [Group 2-Teaching w/Media]

=Important Content of this Chapter =
 * The type of technology we've been assigned is multimedia. It is a combination of media. Hypermedia is defined as interactive media
 * Presents an overview of multimedia and hypermedia and describes current and future impact of hypermedia on education. More specifically, the text cites that hypermedia can enhance classroom learning through increased motivation, flexible learning modes, the development of creative and critical thinking skills, and improved writing skills.
 * Research on design and ease of use for different forms of multimedia and hypermedia.
 * Discusses commercial and instructional multimedia and hypermedia resources/software. For example, programs such as tutorials, drill and practice, simulation, instructional games, problem solving activities, interactive books and ebooks.
 * Provides several sample lesson plans that use hypermedia or multimedia to provide an exemplar.
 * Remainder of chapter provides in depth descriptions of various multi/hypermedia in terms of how it can be integrated into the classroom.

**Benefits and Limitations**
 * The benefits of this type of technology include: increased motivation, flexible learning modes, development of creative and thinking skills, and improved writing and process skills.
 * The limitations can include: cost, lack of interpersonal skills, time for training (teachers and students), and accessibility for students, outdated software

**Practical Uses**
 * Practical uses of hypermedia in the classroom are as follows:
 * Audio- background music, musical illustrations, famous speeches, poetry readings, directions, sound effects
 * Video- demonstrations, lectures, illustrations, simulations, problem solving situations
 * Photographs- history, geography, illustrative tools
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Graphic Images- illustrated cartoons and attention getting cues
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Text- signs or titles, summaries, and definitions

=<span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">External Links about Multi/Hypermedia = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">External Links: ** <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: #ffff00; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mozbackgroundclip: border; mozbackgroundinlinepolicy: continuous; mozbackgroundorigin: padding;"> []

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|PBS Kids] [|Children's Storybooks] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">** Reference Materials: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Wikipedia] [|Google Maps] [|Google Earth] [|USA Today]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Interactive/eBooks: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">** Instructional software: ** [|Brain Pop]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">** SAMPLE LESSON **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interactive storybooks to teach new vocabulary Grades K-5

This integration lesson offers students the opportunity to use an interactive book to listen to a narrative while they become aware of new vocabulary while writing about their favorite story within their journals. Instead of teachers doing a read aloud with print books, they can use an interactive version of the story at a classroom reading center, making sure that the learning station has headphones. Each student has a turn at the reading center computer. The teacher asks each student to listen to the story all the way through before completing the interactive (and fun) branching activities. He or she gives students 3 by 5 inch cards and asks them to copy down an words they see and hear that are new to them. In their writing journals students describe their favorite part of the story. During a sharing time, students share the new vocabulary they have learned and discuss the words and their meanings. Older students can look words up in dictionary before sharing.