Audio and visual technologies can engage multiple senses and learning styles to make information easier to learn. Capturing and playing audio, as well as using visual supports like photographs, models, and printed materials can help support learning and encourage listening. Digital formats like CDs, DVDs, and internet radio provide clear audio, while technologies like overhead projectors, document cameras, and whiteboards allow visual information to be designed, arranged and presented in the classroom.

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2. Audio Visual Technology adding the appropriate audio & visual components can engage more of the learners senses & build multiple cognitive to information presented learning styles vary; adding audio & visual images can help make learning easier for many students

3. Listening! Being able to hear to hear & comprehend involves several steps: You actually have to hear the auditory stimulus. Your brain needs to turn that stimulus into neural pulses & process it. Cognitive connections need to be made to relate new information to memories of real events or previously learned content. Capturing auditory information, storing it & playing it back can be a useful tool to support learning & encourage focused listening.

4. Digital Audio Media CDs & DVDs offer many advantages including clarity, storage, format & information MP3s - an audio compression technology that provides high quality sound Internet Radio – offers online radio stations consisting of a wide variety of programming

5. Visual Technologies children acquire visual literacy skills throughout their educational experiences visual support for content presented can be seen throughout the teaching & learning space How you design, arrange & present visual information to learners will affect their visual literacy skill set, positively or negatively.

6. Non Projected Visuals real objects – any object that can be brought into the classroom for examination models & exhibits – 3 dimensional representations of concepts or that represent a scene print materials – books, worksheets, posters or charts Photographs can capture real world images & bring them to the classroom

7. Display Technology bulletin boards offer a flexible surface that provides an easy to change venue for a variety of print & graphic elements flip charts can be use to write information that can be saved or torn off & displayed white boards provide a slick surface on which a variety of dry erasable colored markers can be used

8. Projected Visuals overhead projectors – enlarge images of a visual which is then projected onto a projection screen transparencies – visuals for overhead projection that can be created by hand, printed on a computer or bought document cameras – a video camera mounted on a stand that can capture & project an image of whatever is placed on the document table

9. In My Classroom After reading this chapter, I realize how important audio & visual supports are in the classroom. The document table is a great invention for the classroom! I could use the projectors for different lessons I teach. Flips charts are great for going over spelling & vocabulary words with students.