To enhance instructional presentations, a plethora of variegated forms of media can be utilized. For example, Power Point or Prezi’s are the most obvious. Excel spreadsheets when discussing statistics or data could be useful. YouTube videos or utilizing a Smartboard for interactive discussions could all be useful tools to enhance presentations.
The only downside to technology concerns technical glitches and/or problems. Computers crash, or are shared by too many computers in the same network, or simply do not seem to work one day when they miraculously work the next. All of these issues (and then some) are concerns to be made aware of when giving instructional presentations. After all, “Luck favors the prepared.”
Some great forms of media that can be used to enhance instructional presentations include the Smartboard, YouTube videos, and PowerPoint. Brain Pop videos are also good instructional videos to show. The concern with technology and multimedia presentations is that technology can crash. Sometimes the internet is down, or a site may be blocked from a certain computer. The Smartboard can work get today and be inoperable the next.
There are many different forms of media that can be used to enhance instructional presentations. For example power point, movie maker, Prezi, digital stories, movie clips, songs, pod casting, and the list goes on. The hardware issues and concerns to be aware of in preparing and presenting multimedia presentations or projects would be being prepared for the unexpected. Technology is great when it works, but when it doesn’t and you do not have a back up you are out of luck. So it is very important to always have a plan B. Also it is important that the information you are presenting is user friendly by this I mean your students will be able to interpret and connect to the information.
To enhance instructional presentations, a plethora of variegated forms of media can be utilized. For example, Power Point or Prezi’s are the most obvious. Excel spreadsheets when discussing statistics or data could be useful. YouTube videos or utilizing a Smartboard for interactive discussions could all be useful tools to enhance presentations.
ReplyDeleteThe only downside to technology concerns technical glitches and/or problems. Computers crash, or are shared by too many computers in the same network, or simply do not seem to work one day when they miraculously work the next. All of these issues (and then some) are concerns to be made aware of when giving instructional presentations. After all, “Luck favors the prepared.”
Some great forms of media that can be used to enhance instructional presentations include the Smartboard, YouTube videos, and PowerPoint. Brain Pop videos are also good instructional videos to show. The concern with technology and multimedia presentations is that technology can crash. Sometimes the internet is down, or a site may be blocked from a certain computer. The Smartboard can work get today and be inoperable the next.
ReplyDeleteThere are many different forms of media that can be used to enhance instructional presentations. For example power point, movie maker, Prezi, digital stories, movie clips, songs, pod casting, and the list goes on.
ReplyDeleteThe hardware issues and concerns to be aware of in preparing and presenting multimedia presentations or projects would be being prepared for the unexpected. Technology is great when it works, but when it doesn’t and you do not have a back up you are out of luck. So it is very important to always have a plan B. Also it is important that the information you are presenting is user friendly by this I mean your students will be able to interpret and connect to the information.