This was a training workshop to Lecturers of Tanzania's Institute of Adult Education and its programme partners. Objective: Equipping participants with skills to write video and radio scripts for pre-vocational, academic, and generic skills lessons of post-primary education level. Activities: Actual writing of the scripts was done in this workshop after thorough discussions regarding the topic. Outcome: 13 video and 2 radio scripts were developed.

1. INSTITUTE OF ADULT
EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
WORKSHOP: Script writing
By Belingtone ELIRINGIA MARIKI
Lecturer,
Institute of adult education
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October 2016
Email: belingtone.mariki@gmail.com

2. WHAT IS EDUCATIONAL
MULTIMEDIA?
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3. Educational Multimedia
Multimedia = Use of more than one
medium of expression or
communication.
According to Mariki (2014:181)
 Educational multimedia may be referred to as
a means to deliver education using a
combination of various media.
It involves a combination of video, graphics,
learning interactive technologies, animations
and audio.
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4. VIDEO LESSON =
MULTIMEDIA?
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5. Video Lesson = Multimedia?
Definitely the answer is NO!
Not all videos are multimedia. Smith (2011)
argue that,
Some videos are just like traditional
classrooms recorded and
Some are like news broadcasting
To be a multimedia it needs to include
several medium like text, audio, sounds,
graphics, and visuals.
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6. W
hy
M
ultim
edia?
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7. Why Multimedia?
 Draws learner’s interest and attention (the
audio, music, visuals, sound, video,
animations)
 Its entertaining
 Simplified learning style as opposed to
traditional text-based learning
 Availability, efficiency and affordability
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8. Why Multimedia Cont…
 “Wide coverage because it can reach
many people at a time
 More interactiveness which enable
learners to employ more than one
sense organ
 Self explanatory therefore fewer
personnel are needed.
 Reduces teaching load” (Kassamia,
2010).
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9. D
EVELO
PIN
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M
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10. Developing Multimedia
Content
a. Identify lesson
b. Identify relevant teaching content
c. Understand the context of targeted
learners
d. Write script
e. Develop multimedia content
(video/radio recording, editing)
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October 2016
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11. THINGS TO CONSIDER
WHEN WRITING AN
EDUCATIONAL
MULTIMEDIA SCRIPT.
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12. Things to Consider
a. Put yourself on the viewers side
b. Stay focused on the learning content
c. Ensure Clarity,
d. Make it simple to be understood by
learners (simplicity),
e. Be realistic
f. Appropriateness for audience (target
people) - Who does it affect? How?
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13. Things To Consider Cont…
g. Ensure completeness of the script. It
should complete a specific topic.
h. applicability – the content should be
applicable in our environment
i. Foresee the actual multimedia content.
Imagine the video
j. Creativity. You need to insert things
that are not visible or tangible but just
coming from your mind (Mariki, 2014)
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14. References:
Kassamia, L. (2010). Institute of Adult
Education Multimedia Strategy 2011-2013.
A proposal submitted to Commonwealth Of
Learning.
Mariki, B. E. (2014). Teachers' Experiences in
Educational Multimedia Content
Development. The case of Tanzania's
Institute of Adult Education. Turkish Online
Journal of Distance Education , 15 (4), 181.
Smith, L. (2011). Teaching notes for
Multimedia content Development at IAE.
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