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Easy Ways to Use Multi Easy Ways to Use Multi MediaMedia

Euler França Euler França

Greenwich Development Greenwich Development Center Center

Easy Ways to Use Multi Easy Ways to Use Multi MediaMedia

Euler França Euler França

Why Use Special Activities?

• Special activities are fun for students; therefore, they are great motivators.

• Special activities allow students to explore a topic in more depth.

• Special activities offer students an opportunity to experience customs of another culture.

More Reasons for Special Activities

• Special activities can be the final result of a small group project.

• Special activities may be directed to a variety of learning styles/intelligences

• Special activities can be used as a reward—a goal for students to strive toward.

The Benefits of Word Games

• Students improve language skills.• Students learn to concentrate.• Students learn to follow directions.• Students learn to see relationships

between words.• Students learn to compare and

categorize words.• Word games are inexpensive to prepare.

Useful Equipment for Useful Equipment for Multi Media ClassesMulti Media Classes

Useful Equipment for Useful Equipment for Multi Media ClassesMulti Media Classes

Tape recorders vs Cd players;• better sound quality;• easier finding tracks. VCRs vs DVD players• better image and sound quality;• subtitles in the aimed language;• easier finding tracks, forwarding

and rewinding scenes.

Computers• current craze among children, teens and

adults;• CD Roms (softwares);• useful file extentions: *.mp3, *.pdf, *.doc;• useful programs: Powerpoint, Word, Acrobat

Reader, Winamp, Radlight, etc.;• the Internet: downloads, emails, ICQs, chat

rooms, pictures, videos, etc;• the Internet: homepages

Using PowerPoint for Using PowerPoint for TeachingTeaching

Using PowerPoint for Using PowerPoint for TeachingTeaching

Why use PowerPoint?• To cue your classroom presentations

and activities• To create an electronic version of your

lectures• To incorporate pictures, sounds, video,

graphs, tables, etc. into a single media• To organize your materials and ideas

Cueing a Classroom Presentation with

PowerPoint• It’s like using a

blackboard, but more attractive.

• It’s like a slide show, but more elegant.

• You can go forward, backward or select slides out of sequence as needed.

Importing Multimedia

• Graphics• Sound• Video• Charts• Graphs• Tables• Web site links• Other Objects

• If it’s digitized, you can use it.

• Imported multimedia become a permanent part of the slides you create.

• Troubleshooting may be necessary.

Using the InternetUsing the InternetUsing the InternetUsing the Internet

What´s the “Net”?

• It´s an international network of computers which makes it possible to share information between the various computers in various ways.

Comparing...

• The Internet = highway• Information = passenger• E-mail,ICQ, www, and other

systems = vehicle• Site URL, e-mail address, ICQ#

= destination

Why use the Internet in class?

• Experimental learning;• Motivation;• Enhanced student achievement;• Greater interaction;• Individualization;• Global understanding;

• Students who surf the Web are READING.

“ Teachers are not the only source of information anymore, ,but act as facilitators so that students can actively interpret and organize the information they are given, fitting it into prior knowledge.”

Dole, et al., 1991

What should I do now?

• Now, please go and learn how to create slide shows on: www.snaparific.com/classes/powerpoint/shortppp/default.htm

• Bring us your drafts, newborn ideas or sophisticated plans. We want to help you design SLIDESHOWS THAT ROCK!

• Contact euler@greenwich.com.br

More activities with More activities with audios, films and audios, films and

computer filescomputer files

More activities with More activities with audios, films and audios, films and

computer filescomputer files

Audio File A matter ofchance

Chapter 1: The roof-tile

Before listening• What happened?• Where did it happen?• When did it happen?• How did it happen?• Who had a problem?• Why did it happen?

• The roof-tile fell. • After two or three hundred years

of rain, ice, snow, wind and sun, the roof-tile fell...

• ...from its place, down into the street of the old town.

• ... and hit my wife in the middle of her head.

• ... killing her instantly.

Discussion topic:Have you ever heard of

someone who was killed hit by a roof-tile

in Brazil?What about hit by falling coconuts?

DVD - Mr. BeanBasic Students

• Where is he?• What’s he doing ?• Who’s standing there with him?• Did he help the blindman (anytime)?• Did he take the bus (afterwards)?

DVD - Mr. BeanIntermediate Students

• Where has he been waiting for?• Where had he been before he came

back to the bus stop?• Who had been waiting for the bus with

him before the blindman came over?• Has he helped the blindman?

• Has he finally taken the bus?

DVD - Mr. BeanAdvanced Students

• What would Mr. Bean give his eyeteeth for in this episode?

• Has the young lady flown off the handle anytime with him?

• Has he eavesdropped on people´s conversation when queueing?

• Has he thrown in the towel anytime?• Why was he back to square one at

the end of the episode?

Video Activityon “Joy Ride”

• Where does the story take place?• When is it?• How many people are involved?• Why do some people shout?• What is the scene about?• What genre is it?

• Describe your scene.

Web Site Links• www.sitesforteachers.com• www.script-o-rama.com• www.lyrics.com• www.english-zone.com• www.beaumont-publishing.com• www.google.com• www.garfield.com

Food for thought“ Technology will not replace

teachers. Teachers who use technology will probably replace those who do not.”

Ray Clifford