The document discusses using multimedia in the classroom and provides 10 reasons to do so. It then gives examples of how multimedia can be used at different stages of a lesson plan focusing on bullying. Activities include using videos to teach vocabulary, having students create dialogs or perform role plays related to videos, and using videos to spark debates or create sociograms to study class relationships. The document advocates using multimedia to engage students and enhance learning in many ways.

1. Patricia García
Carolina Mata
Laura Cachón
Pedro García

2. Ten reasons to use multimedia in the
classroom
• Facilitate and develop a community of learners through online ice-breaker activities
• Help students visualize difficult concepts or procedures more easily
• Scaffold learning through activities enhanced by videos and online games
• Make language and culture come alive through the viewing and creation of audio
and video instruction
• Provide a “menu” of authentic assignment options
• Enhance accessibility through the use of powerful multimedia software tools
• Enable visualization of concepts and their connections
• Encourage collaboration and feedback
• Make learning situated and personal
• Help students document and present their learning through authentic assessments

3. DVD PLAYER
EDITING AND ASSEMBLING SPEAKERS
PROGRAMMS LARGE ROOM
Show/Act
VIDEO CAMERA MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT COMPUTER
& Watch/Create
AUDIO CAMERA
DATA PROJECTOR
&
SCREEN
MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE
LIBRARY WHITE
BOARD

4. HOW AND WHEN?
Multimedia can be used on the different
stages of a didactic unit depending on
what you want to deal with in a certain
time. Therefore we can use multimedia as
an introduction, reinforcement or
assessment activity.

5. MULTIMEDIA
 CREATING  USING MATERIALS
MATERIALS

6. CREATING YOUR OWN
MATERIALS
 Creating podcast and sound:
 http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
 www.soungle.com
 Editing videos:
 Movie maker
 Pinnacle studio
 Creating videos:
 http://voicethread.com/
 http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
 Animations:
 http://www.xtranormal.com/

7. USING MATERIALS
(already created)
 Cd-Roms
 DVDs
 Pictures and Photographs
 Interactive Games
 Video Games
 Websites
 And…… YOUTUBE !!

8. Example of how to work with
multimedia in the classroom.
The activities presented focus on
the topic of bullying and they are
arranged in the three different
cycles of primary education.

9. 1st CYCLE
Birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omk6TAxJYOg
Vocabulary: numbers, colours.
Timing: at the end of the unit as revision.
Activities:
•Counting the birds.
•Revision of colours.
•Creating short sentences or expression
into the characters to create a short dialogue.

10. 2nd CYCLE
Bully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=UNZKKoy4US0&feature=fvwrel
Vocabulary: school materials, furniture and clothes.
Timing: in the middle of the didactic unit as reinforcement.
Activities:
•Roll play: the students transfer the story in the video
to their own experience writing a dialogue to perform a roll play.

11. 3rd CYCLE
Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=LOMbySJTKpg
Vocabulary: feelings, adjectives and prepositions.
Timing: at the beginning of the didactic unit.
Activities:
•Sociogram : we will make a questionnaire with all the students so teachers
could study the relationships between the members of the class.
•Debate: we will make a debate about integration..

12. To learn more…
 http://www.globalgridforlearning.com/10-
reasons-to-use-multimedia-in-the-
classroom
 http://www.mesc.gov.ws/pdf/Multimedia_Teach