Enrich your classroom by using multimedia techniques that cater to student's learning styles

1. Multimedia in the Classroom Richard Dettling MSHRM, PHR University of Phoenix

2. Overview What is Multimedia Adding video to lessons Adding clipart to enhance your video Fair Use exception and copyright Link rot Flash Video Downloader Slide Share Classroom Assessment Techniques Poll Everywhere Sky Drive Prezi

3. “Teaching at its finest demands that instructors consider every educational tool at their command – various techniques, formats, aids, and technologies – to give their students the richest educational experience possible.” -Linda B. Nilson Teaching at its Best

4. People Learn….Rather…. People prefer to learn in different ways. Doing Hands-on Activities Reading and Writing Watching Demonstrations Using Multimedia Listening to a Lecture

5. What is Multimedia? Presentation software Video Websites Laptops Mobile Phones Email Discussion Boards Chat Rooms

6. Adding Video to Lessons Two Ways: Directly adding the video hyperlink to your lesson presentation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88fKYtelkIE&feature=related The other way is to imbed them into your lesson presentation.

7. Imbedding Video into Lessons

8. Step 1: Ensure that you have your Developer Tab activated Step 2: Click on the Office Button

9. Step 2a: Click PowerPoint Options

10. Step 2b: Make sure Show Developer Tab in Ribbon is checked , then click OK

11. Step 3: Click on the Developer Tab Step 4: Click on the More Controls button Step 5: Scroll down to Shockwave Flash Object and click OK

12. Step 6: An object creator icon “+” appears on the screen. Click anywhere you would like your video to be located on the slide and a video placeholder appears. Don’t worry you can always resize.

13. Step 7: Resize your video place holder.

14. Step 8: Locate the YouTube video you would like to use in you PowerPoint Presentation Step 9: Copy the URL for the video

15. You will need to do a simple modification to the URL (Paste the URL to any document in order to modify it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE8-0ABvhcE Step 10: Delete “watch?” Step 11: Replace “=“ with “/” Step 12: Copy the modified URL Modified: http://www.youtube.com/v/QE8-0ABvhcE Delete: watch? Replace: = with /

16. Step 13: Right click on slide and click on Properties

17. Step 14: Paste the modified URL into Movie field. Step 15: If you want your video to continuously loop then leave the Loop field “True.” If you want to have control over the video then change the value to “false.” Step 16: Close dialog box and your ready to go. Press F5 to see your video in your presentation

19. Add ClipArt to enhance your Video Makes your lesson more attractive and interesting.

23. Fair Use Exception and Copyright “I’m not a lawyer, I just play one on TV” Fair Use Exception and Copyright: Fair Use Restrictions for Face-to-Face Teaching You are allowed to show video directly from an internet source without permission. You can store it for personal use But, you are not allowed to store video and then show it; at least not without permission You cannot show a full length feature even if it is offered on the internet; at least not without permission However, you can show portions of full length feature without permission (Carter, 1996)

24. Link Rot One reason why you add links to your course materials is to avoid copyright laws and guidelines. You encounter another problem – “Link rot” Links may not be there 50% of links disappear in less than 5 years. (Nilson, 2003) The only way around Link Rot is to make online copies of the materials. Doing this legally requires written permission of the creators of the materials (Nilson, 2003)

25. FVD Flash Video Downloader helps you download flash video .flv from 200+ video sharing sites. And it's completely free.

26. Use Mozilla’s Firefox Step 1: Click on Tools and click on Add-ons

27. Step 2: Type FVD into the search field and hit  Enter

28. Step 3: Click on Add to Firefox and download extension

29. Step 4: When you find a video that you would like to save on your computer, Click the FVD button to download video.

30. Step 3: Save .flv file to any folder

31. Slide Share To post or not to post your materials SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web SlideShare is the best way to share presentations SlideShare supports all documents formats (ppt, pptx, odp, pdf, keynote) 100mb per file And it's completely free. http://www.slideshare.net/profrichdett

32. CATs Classroom Assessment Techniques Allow teachers to know what and how their students are learning CATs are not the same as tests or graded assessments Based on improving learning not on giving grades to students. The goal of CATS is to gauge students learning but at the same time improve a teachers techniques of teaching their students.

33. Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere is a simple text message voting application that works well for live audiences. Its like an Audience Response Systems (ARS) And much easier to setup and use People vote by sending text messages (or using Twitter) to options displayed on-screen. The poll that is embedded within the presentation will update in real time. And it's completely free.

34. How To Vote via Texting EXAMPLE Standard texting rates only We have no access to your phone number Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do TIPS

35. If someone votes on a poll, are they charged a text fee? Poll Everywhere does not charge anyone for voting on a poll. However, individual wireless carriers may charge standard text message charges, which vary depending on the wireless carrier.

36. How fast do votes show up? Typically a vote will be displayed within 2-5 seconds. Any delay depends on the voter's cellular carrier.

37. Geography Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

38. Geology Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

39. Anatomy Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

40. Skydrive Go to www.skydrive.com Enables students and teachers to create Microsoft Office documents and presentations on the internet. Store up to 25mb on each account And it's completely free.

41. Prezi Presentation Software http://prezi.com/1y6sveyy4aem/multimedia-in-the-classroom/

42. References Carter, Mary E. (1996). Electronic highway robbery: An artist's guide to copyrights in the digital era. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. Nilson, Linda B. (2003) Teaching at its best. Boston, MA: Anker Publishing