This document discusses using multimedia to address different learning styles in educational presentations. It recommends presentations be clear, consistent, organized, and use visuals like graphs, pictures, and audio alongside key ideas and words. Presentations should also engage learners through repetition, reinforcement, and interactivity. Different learning styles include auditory learners who benefit from voice tone and body language, visual learners who understand diagrams and images best, and kinesthetic learners who learn through touching and experiencing material. Citations provide additional resources on learning styles and creating engaging presentations.

1. A Powerful Presentation Multimedia in Education By Manuela Moruzzi

2. Purposes Present Information State Objectives Use multimedia to address various learning styles

3. Characteristics Clear, consistent, organized, easy on the eyes and fun. Use key ideas and words to support oral presentation Use graphs, pictures, transparencies, and audio tools as well. Repeat, reinforce, interactive follow up

4. "Approximately 20 to 30 percent of the school-aged population remembers what is heard; 40 percent recalls well visually the things that are seen or read; many must write or use their fingers in some manipulative way to help them remember basic facts; other people cannot internalize information or skills unless they use them in real-life activities such as actually writing a letter to learn the correct format."

5. The importance of the audience Auditory Learners Regulating voice tone, inflection, and body language will help all students maintain interest and attention. Visual Learners Show me and I'll understand." Visual learners benefit from diagrams, charts, pictures, films, and written directions Kinesthetic Learners Most of the school population excels through kinesthetic means: touching, feeling, experiencing the material at hand.

7. Citations Teaching Students to Read Through Their Individual Learning Styles, Marie Carbo, Rita Dunn, and Kenneth Dunn; Prentice-Hall, 1986 Bringing Down the House: Creating Sensational Knock-Your- Socks Off Presentations . By Ian Jukes, The InfoSavvyGroup, http://www.infosavvygroup.com Feb 2010