How to Use Multimedia in the Classroom

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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 for quicker discussion afterwards and for students to explore the entire movie on their own time.
In my own classroom I use a few different forms of multimedia.  We use our Chromebooks to research and use website like PebbleGo, which reads the information to the students if they need it.  We also use Youtube for drawing or art tutorials.  I post my demonstration videos, and students watch them at their own pace.  There are also many art books in the classroom for students to look at and use for their research.  We have ipads that can be checked out to use with specific apps.  One thing I would love more of in my classroom are audio art books.  I would love to have a station set up for early finishers where students could go listen to audiobooks. 

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