How to Use Multimedia in the Classroom
Glazer, K. (n.d.). Literacy Daily. Retrieved March 29, 2018, from https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2017/02/22/how-to-use-multimedia-in-your- classroom This article refers to several different ways to use multimedia in a classroom. When the author was trying to teach her students English as a second language, she used audio books to help her students follow along with the words and hear them spoken at the same time. She used the website "Lit2Go" to find audio books for her students. The author uses songs and music videos first during her unit on irony and then again for her unit on Romanticism. A music video by The Band Perry demonstrates classic Romanticism symbols and students were able to watch and write down all the symbols they noticed. The last tip the author gave was to show short clips from movies rather than the entire movie itself. Showing shorter clips allows fo...