Friday, October 10, 2008

Web based Multimedia/Animation

My article talks about how combining text, sounds, and moving objects is the most powerful aspect of computing technology. There are multiple ways to create a web based multimedia or anmiation. I believe that students will learn faster when using animations. In science class, it would be benefical to show how atoms form and how they work but you can't see this with the human eye so having an animation presented to you to show you excatly how it all works would help the students tremendously. Most kids are visual learners anyways so when they have something neat to learn off of, it makes going to class and learning more interesting for them. However, we have to be careful of copyright issues when creating and using web based mulitmedia.

I think we should do more research on just how effective multimedia and animations are in the classrooms.