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Enhance Your Lecture The multiple and varied kinds of aids for making your standard lecture more interesting and interactive for the student By Mike Keelen
Traditional forms of audio technology Cassette recorder and headsets Great for students who are practicing reading or listening to stories Useful for prerecorded lectures or commercial audiotapes Headsets great for advanced individual learning Students can record activities and replay them
Advanced audio technology Compact discs and internet audio Have all of the advantages of cassette technology plus: Better clarity, durability, portability, and flexibility Internet audio is limited to what is available on the web, which means it is VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED!! Audio bits of almost anything that has been recorded can be burned onto a compact disc Internet radio provides access to a wide variety of live and recorded programming of all kinds from all around the world!
Non-technological visual aids Printed handouts Chalkboards and bulletin boards Models and real objects Dioramas While useful, these aids are often unstimulating.
Traditional forms of visual technology Television, Video Cassette Recorders and Video Cassette Tapes Overhead projectors with transparencies While these workhorses are easy to use and far more stimulating than the non-tech visuals listed previously, there are newer forms of these technologies that have many more uses and benefits.
Advanced Visual technology DVDs Digital Projectors Document cameras and digital cameras Narrowcast and Cablecast video Streaming video, live cams, and THE INTERNET!!!!
Discretion and prudence While the advantages of technology, whether they be tried and true, still advancing, or yet to be discovered, are only limited to the imagination and creativity of the instructor, it is important that all technology be relevant to the lectures they support, not be a distraction or take away from the lecture, and be appropriate for children and young adults. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RAi3XAPhA
Works Cited Lever-Duffy, Judy and McDonald, Jean B.  Teaching and Learning with Technology .  Boston:  Pearson.  2011. “ Technology in the classroom is not a new  idea.”  July 30, 2007.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RAi3 XAPhA