Technology as an inseparable part of teaching and learning.

Hello everybody,
How are things going?

We have dealt so much with technology on this subject, we have mentioned its advantages and disadvantages, we have talked about multimedia and its importance. Now, it's time to focus on technology tools that may help teachers to create an interactive atmosphere in their classrooms. Integrating technology in a classroom can be more beneficial than face to face or online learning alone.
"Technology will not replace great teachers, but technology in the hand of great teachers can be transformational"-George Couros.
This quote shows that technology is important while teaching but only if it is used carefully. Teachers who know how to use it in class, attract students' attention. This results in students' engagement and better performance.

Let's take a look on the past and see if things have changed or not.
Teachers, but also students used to be very happy just because they had some computers at school. I can still remember how excited we were on the 'Informatics' classes, even though we never used the computers to learn something.
I don't know why, but most of the time they were broken, the mice were missed or any other problem. Even when they were alright, nobody taught us how to use computer at its basic concepts. We used to play games on these classes or we stayed at class doing nothing.
Now students have more opportunities  because they can even learn individually from their computer or mobile phone. We didn't have such devices then, only some who were called 'lucky' had.
Technology didn't have the impact it has nowadays. Now it is a standard. It's kind of strange because at the moment we get used to a tool or program something faster and better appears.
It's the same thing that happens with our phones. Before, there were Nokia 3310 or Samsung, later BlackBerry was produced, now there are smartphone and iPhone of high technology. We see that technology is advancing day by day.
Think about your English classes.
Did your teacher put some music while you were reading?
Did your teacher bring extra materials rather than just textbooks?
Did your teacher present a lesson via technology using pictures, videos, interactive whiteboards or PowerPoint presentations?
Let me guess, most of them didn't.
That's mostly because teachers were not used to technology before.
There are still traditional teachers who just only explain the lesson and ask students to tell it by heart, but I've also noticed that there have been some changes. (Not sufficient ones.) There are teachers who use PowerPoint presentations or bring images to students, but interactive whiteboards are still missing. Our schools and universities still use the blackboards. Interactive whiteboards are really effective because they allow multiple students to collaborate using a touchscreen to annotate content or to take notes. It is an easier way to structure lessons, to make students engage and have fun at the same time.
Isn't it sad to see how no investment is made in education?
But, teachers can try their best to integrate technology in teaching. Instead of fighting the use of technology in our classrooms, we can interpret it in a meaningful way using different tools such as:
•Socrative, Kahoot, Hot Potatoes, Google forms to create different kinds of quizzes. They are all easy to use and very interactive. They allow all students to take part. If you asked me which one I would choose, I would say Kahoot as the most appealing one. It is colourful and allows teachers to create their own learning games and students to have fun while learning.

•FlipGrid is a tool that increases students' engagement by recording and sharing short videos in a collaborative way.
In every grid teachers can post questions and students may answer by sharing videos.

•Edpuzzle is another educational tool in which teachers may add text and voice questions. Teachers may do this in existed videos or they may upload their own videos there. It creates an interactive environment in classroom, but not only. It is interesting and students focus more.

•Dyknow is a helpful tool for teachers to monitor what their students do during the class. This allows teachers to notice if students are really working or they are wasting their time playing games or on social media. In this way, teachers may 'control' the class, in order for students to be more attentive.

•Students need constant feedback. Floop helps teacher to share feedback faster and in a more specific way. Students have the possibility to send to their teachers their uncompleted work and ask for suggestions. The teacher controls it, gives the recommendations and send it back to the student. I think this is very useful because allows teachers to be in continuous contact with their students' progress and it also enables students the possibility to edit their work in order to improve it.

Let's recap the advantages of technology in teaching and learning.
•Technology enables us to connect with other students and teachers.
•Technology helps students to engage mostly in a self directed learning. At the same time  they are responsible for what they learn.
•Technology raises students' interest and attention.
•Encourages collaboration, since students can work in groups or they may share different materials, opinions and assignments together.
•Technology has no limitations. It provides us with everything we need.

In my opinion, what technology offers us is endless. What we can do is to choose the positive and effective part of it. Let's make a change together because as John Dewey said: "If we teach as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."

I hope you find this post helpful!
Thank you! :)

Assessment/Evaluation.

Hello everybody,
I wish you all good health!

Today's topic is about the assessment/evaluation.
First of all, I would like to mention that the assessment focuses on the process, while evaluation focuses on the product (grades).
We all need feedback for what we do.

I personally want not only good comments and compliments ( of course, everybody loves them), but I also want suggestions and good critics. I say good critics, because I think everybody's learning is personal and we can't say it is wrong or not, but we may give recommendations.
I have previously said that assessment is an ongoing process. It has to do with the gathering of information about students' progress and achievements. Through it, we may understand what students know or lack, which are their needs and interests, but we can also improve ourselves as teachers.
The most important types of assessment are:
•Diagnostic assessment - it helps the teacher to 'diagnose' what students already know or what they don't know. It is done at the very beginning. This helps teachers to change what is wrong.
•Formative assessment it happens all the time. Teachers monitor students' learning. It can be done through quizzes, discussions, continuous projects and so on. Through them, we understand what a student is learning throughout the course.
•Summative assessment this is more a kind of evaluation, because it happens only at the end. It can be in the form of midterm exams, final projects or portfolios etc. Through it, we understand what a student has learned throughout the course.
•Self-assessment in which students give feedback about themselves.
•Peer assessment in which students assess each other.
We have practised both, self and peer-assessment in university.
During the first semester in 'Psycholinguistics',  we were divided into 4 groups and the 'Evaluation Group' had to give feedback for other students.
While assessing others we should make sure the feedback is in the sandwich form.

1st, we start with something positive.
2nd, what we would suggest.
3rd, something good.
We should not be rude or unethical.
Our professor used Mentimeter to create a poll and we assessed our peers in anonymous way. Kahoot can be used as well.
Below, you can find a short video about top 10 technology assessment tools.

During this semester after delivering the presentation we gave feedback for ourselves. Even here we should be fair and objective.
Assessment is really important, because it provides teachers with the right information about what students understand or not and how to improve their way of teaching. It also provides feedback to the students. It informs students of their progress and enhances their motivation. When students deliver self or peer-assessment, they are more:
•engaged
•objective
•critical thinkers.

Nowadays, it is widely used the E-assessment, which has to do with the use of technology to deliver the assessment.
It can be done through different forms.
•We can submit an assignment or essay virtually, via email or via 'Classroom' platform.
•Online quizzes are a good way of doing this. Since now we are attending classes online, even the assessment is done in this way. In a subject, our teacher shares every week an online quiz with us. We fill it and we submit it.
•E-portfolio, which is owned by the students. It is student-centred.


How does E-assessment help us?
•We get rid of papers since now we can submit our assignments in virtual platforms such as Dropbox.
We are doing this way of sharing tasks, and our teacher also comments on our work.
•So, the other advantage is instant feedback can be provided.
•Work is safely stored. We don't have to think if we took our paperwork with us or not.
•It costs less. Since nowadays most of us have internet on their phone we can use it even for our assignments, so we don't have to print them.
•When we share our tasks online, we can prove to our teacher that we have already submitted the task. Because there may be cases when an assignment or exam can be lost and your teacher may somehow accuse you of not having done it.
•Diverse activities such as online quizzes(multiple-choice exercise), fill in the gaps, crosswords, creative activities such as creating our own exercises.

To sum up, the assessment should be done continuously. Students need feedback, but not an offensive one. They need to know if they are doing right or not. And teachers are one of the most important persons to provide it.

Feel free to give your comments. I would like to hear your suggestions as well. :)
Thank you!

Develop phase. Media components

Hello,
Hope everything is fine!

If you remember, last time I said you I will talk about the other phases the following weeks.
Today, I'm going to deal with the Develop Phase.
It is very important, because here we start pulling together all the materials and elements we have found and we support the framework we built on the design phase.
In this phase, the presentation takes form.
It assembles all the elements of the media that include: text, images, animation, audio and video. The focus is on what elements of media and technological tools we are going to use.

First of all, we should choose what kind of program/tools we are going to use for our presentation.
The most common one is the PowerPoint presentation program which is used for projects which are presented to a big group of people. It has been improved and now we can make our presentation interactive by using different effects. Action buttons, which may direct us to other slides or files are widely used nowadays. We can add videos, images, hyperlinks, online quizzes and other effects.

To make a presentation appealing we may use:
Graphics which refer to information that is presented via pictures, painting or drawing.
There are some programs to create them such as: ColorIt, CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator etc.
Animations are graphic files that include movement. They are important, because they emphasize complex concepts and add excitement to the students.
Audio is an effect that can be realised also in PowerPoint. It may include a recorded narration, music or sound effects.
Music also helps students to be more interested and motivated.
So, we include the 'Suggestopedia' teaching method. It makes use of music in order to create a relax and comfortable environment for the students. I think, it is mostly used for elementary students, since it is more difficult to attract their attention without the use of such elements.
We have practised this method of teaching in 'Didactics' and it created a calm atmosphere. The students were attentive and they enjoyed the class.
(Baroque music is recommended in these classes).
Videos have their own role. We may add subtitles to them in order to make them more comprehensible to the students.
We may also create videos using our own voice, so it would be familiar to the students. There are a lot of video maker apps and tools on the internet.
In a presentation, the visual part is highly important, because it enhances the presentation and serves to illustrate and entertain.
But, we should be careful to keep it as easy and as comprehensible as possible.
Below you may find a very short and interesting video about the importance of visualization.

All in all, we have to keep in mind that a presentation without the integration of technology wouldn't be attractive at all.
If it is a traditional one, where the teacher only explains, it will be dreadfully boring.
Big applause to technology! 👏👏

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Feel free to share your opinions.
Thank you! :)

Planning a project.

Hello!
Welcome back to my blog!

Today, I am going to write about the DDD-E model and more specifically about the decide and design stages.
As I have previously said:
D- stands for Decide. In this phase, we choose what kind of project we would like to do.
D- stands for Design. In this stage, we choose the tools we will use in our project.
D- stands for Develop. In this phase, we pull together all the materials we have found.
E- stands for Evaluate. It is an ongoing process in which we reflect and assess our project.

Decide phase.
What do we do during this phase?
We determine some crucial elements such as the topic or the subject of the project, the goals or the learning standards. What are the students expected to achieve at the end of this project?
We should introduce the goals at the very beginning and we should choose a project which meets those goals. While deciding all these things, we should set the time. How much time does each activity take?
How can we organise them in order to meet the time limits?
We also decide if the use of multimedia is appropriate or not. What can we do to use it properly in order to enhance and not to destroy our project?
While deciding this, we should also think if there are all the needed conditions to display this project such as good internet connection, students should have at least basic computer skills, students should also have the necessary equipment.
We decide if the activities planned can be done individually or in pairs/groups. If a certain activity can be done in groups, we should be able to create cooperative groups, which are better to be selected by the teacher, because it ensures balance. If we let our students choose with whom they are going to work, they will be paired based on their relationships. This is not bad, but if we allow them to do this all the time, there won't be diversity in class and we should make sure to choose the groups based on students' abilities, project requirements and so on.
After deciding how we are going to deal with our project, we should teach students some social skills such as: listening carefully, being polite, sharing ideas and opinions, reducing tension and pressure, disagreeing in a polite way, without insulting the others and so on.
Those skills are as much important as computer skills because without them students can't even work together and the whole project would be a mess.
After making sure we have dealt with the first phase properly, we pass to the:

Design phase.
In this phase, we provide information about the aspects of multimedia or the technology being used for the project. It is very important because it produces a plan for the whole project.
This phase includes:
Outlining the content.
Teachers should provide students with what is expected of them.
We should specify the requirements. What is the topic that should be developed and how are we going to deal with it. What aspects are we going to include in our project? We should also take into consideration the target audience. The whole project should be focused on the level of the students we are dealing with. The topic, the activities, the multimedia used should be appropriate for the students' level.
If we are dealing with children, we should be careful not to exaggerate with the expectations and if we are dealing with the adults, we should not think that they already know everything.
Creating flowcharts. There are different flowcharts that can be used depending on our type of project.
We can create flowcharts by using
Lucidchart.com which is a platform that combines different elements such as drawing, diagramming, visualization and collaboration. It is an innovative platform.
Specifying screen design.
Here we determine how our screen template will look like. We should choose the right colour and navigation options. The screen should be functional and usable.
Writing storyboards. Storyboards are very important because they convey how the story will develop through images displayed in sequence.
They can be general or detailed ones. The detailed ones are more used and they should contain all the information needed.
Design guidelines to specify information related to text, menus, icons and buttons and colour.
We should try to create short and appealing sentences and avoid long lines of text. That's because long lines distract students.
What about the menus? How many options should they contain?
Well, at least 3-6 options on a menu.
We should also make sure to use common icons, in order not to distract students and to put them in difficulties.
It may seem like the colour we choose for our background is not important, but at least make sure not to use a red one.

The design phase is important, because here we start creating the real project. We should make sure to include an appropriate, short and simple text, mostly if we are doing a Powerpoint presentation.
Next week, we are going to learn more about the two other stages of the DDD-E model.

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The endless ways of using technology.

Hi everybody!
Hope you are doing well!

"When students travel they don't carry grammar books, they carry dictionaries" (Krashen in Lewis).
What does this quote bring to your mind?
I guess you found that today we are going to talk about the importance of vocabulary and how can we use technology to teach and to learn it.
Without vocabulary people cannot understand one another and they can't express their ideas.
Of course, grammar has its own importance, but we can still understand each-other if we use ungrammatical sentences, we can still get the meaning, while if we don't have words ( the right ones ) we can't express anything.
Let's take the example of the little kids. Do they know grammar or its rules?
NO.
Can they convey a meaning by using vocabulary and ungrammatical sentences?
YES.
If a kid says: " I water want.", we can understand that it needs to drink water.
Vocabulary is important not only for communicating, but also for comprehending what we read and listen. Good vocabulary makes us persuasive and also helps us to create a good impact to the others.
People can judge us by the way we talk, we express our ideas and so on. Based on that, they can even decide if they want to build a relationship with us or not.
Vocabulary affects all the areas of communication: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Since vocabulary is so important, what can we do to improve it?
How can we use technology to achieve that?
•Online images and photos are a great way to teach new words to students. We can show them the picture and they may guess the word or its meaning. Visualization helps students to memorize things better and longer. Not only to memorize, but also to comprehend them better.
• PowerPoint slideshows. We can create an interactive PowerPoint presentation by including different effects such as: the hyperlinks, online quizzes, pop up text and so on.
This makes students learn by being engaged and involved in what they do.
•Online exercises are another way of teaching vocabulary. We can create crosswords, match exercises, quizzes, fill-in-the gaps and other activities with exercise generators. In this way students learn by having fun, since they are very interested in technology and in making it part of their learning.
•Songs, videos and movies. We have all learned something new from them. Music helps us learn by being relaxed at the same time. You learn by following the rhythm. Videos and movies are also important, because while watching them we also hear the pronunciation of the words.
•Online dictionaries and translators. Printed dictionaries seem to be 'old-fashioned' nowadays. People are becoming lazy and an online translator or dictionary, which is only a click away, saves time and we don't have to go through different pages.
The most common language translators are: Google translator and Bing translator.
•Listening to digital texts or audio books. It seems like even books are more preferred online nowadays. People like more when they hear somebody else while they try reading it itself. It improves the pronunciation of the words and also the accent.
•Games. Online games are thousands. One of them is the Anagram online game, which trains vocabulary fluency. You have to rearrange the letters, in order to come up with different words. There are also : 'Synonyms game, homophones game and so on'.

Other online tools we can use to teach and learn vocabulary.
Online tools are important, because they provide a broader information about words and their meaning. They:
-allow students to hear pronunciation. In this way, students will improve the way they say the words.
-allow students to view photos and images related to the words. This is a great chance for visual learners.
-allow students to play with language and to explore it.
-allow students to collaborate with their classmates. We have always said that technology encourages team work. This can be done by giving a work which requires different interpretations and also different abilities.
•Lexipedia.I think we all know Thesaurus dictionary in which we can find different synonyms of a certain word. Lexipedia is a visual thesaurus. It presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web.
•Word Hippo is another tool, which has a lot of functions. It defines a word, provides a meaning, provides an opposite word, pronounces it, places the word in different contexts and translates it.
•Padlet is used to create a collaborative digital word wall. It allows users to create sticky notes that can include: text, links, videos, images. We hused Padlet this semester and actually it is a helpful way of sharing information and interesting articles with the others. In this way, we had the possibility to read and watch information that we couldn't find ourselves.
•Vocabulary.com allows us to create quizzes. It is a good tool mostly for elementary students, because it provides a hint for students if they don't know what the word is. (You can click it and it will direct you to its page)
That's how it looks like.

Technology always 'finds' ways to make us use it. There were some of the tools and aspects of technology, which I find not very difficult, but also beneficial to use.

Thank you!

Technology as a useful tool.

Hello everybody!
How are things going?

Now that we are closed in our home, we have become more related to technology. We use it to communicate with our loved ones, to keep in touch with our teachers, to complete our assignments and so on.
I want to ask you: Could you go a day without technology?
I guess the answer is 'NO!'
Technology has become an inseparable part of our lives and I can say that we are addicted to it sometimes.
So, let's take the best from it.
We are all future teachers and as a generation which has been so much in touch with technology, we should know how to make use of it in our classrooms. We should know how to implement it in order to meet our students' needs and interests.

Let's focus on its benefits:
•First of all, the use of technology in the classroom engages students more.
They are used to technology and using it while teaching, increases their interest and helps them to have fun. If students are interested in something, they will participate more, they will be active, they will share their opinions and knowledge.
•Technology improves knowledge retention. Students who engage, have better language retention, because they will be part of the lesson and being part of it they will construct their own knowledge and understanding and it will be easier for them to remember things. Not only that, but by integrating technology in teaching we can use different aspects of it such as: pictures or videos and this will help students to memorize things better and also for a long time.
I can make a comparison from my experience.
In subjects where teachers only explain the lesson with their words, without using any kind of multimedia parts, I can hardly focus on what the teacher is saying and I can't remember most of the information.
On the other hand, when the teacher uses power point presentations which contain also pictures, it is easier for me to understand and to memorize things.
•Technology encourages collaboration.
What we can do is to give students a project and ask them to work on it as a team. This project can be about any kind of topic, but students should make a power point presentation and share it with the class.
Students may also present their project by creating their own videos and upload them on YouTube so other students may see it, or they may present their video in their laptop. This encourages also students who are shy to speak in front of a public.
•Through technology, students learn different skills. One of them is cooperation, which I previously mentioned.
It also helps them to develop their critical thinking. Since students have to do a lot of research using internet, they will have to choose which is the most appropriate information, which is reliable or not and so on.
It also develops practical skills such as creating presentations. Students may create a power point presentation as I mentioned above, they may create a video of themselves, or using pictures and different information, they may use graphics etc.
Technology helps us to write emails. Students may write an email to their teacher if they have any kind of request, if they want to clarify something and many other formal things.
Writing emails serves not only for teachers, but also for other formal people they will meet throughout their life.

How to implement technology(multimedia) in our teaching?
•If we have to do with elementary school pupils, pictures, games and music are the best ways to make them learn and have fun at the same time.
If we are dealing with vocabulary, we may use images to show them the meaning of a new word.
We may allow them to play games, which at the same time helps them learn, such as the hot potato game in which students toss a small object to each- other while the music plays and they have to tell a word about a certain topic. The player who is holding the object when the music stops, is eliminated.  In this way they also learn from each other. One online game, which I came across the previous semester is the Kahoot game. It is a user-generated multiple- choice quiz that can be accessed via a Web browser.
Our classmate introduced it for us and I really enjoyed it.
She presented it with a projector, we logged in and we completed it by our phones. It had colours, so it can also be used for young learners. It is a good way to make all students engage and also to make sure they don't cheat.
We may also add music to our teaching. They will have fun while listening and singing to a song and at the same time will learn something new.
We can also use different power point presentations created based on students' need.
Also, students can create or design their own magazine using different aspects of multimedia. This allows students to work together, to show their strongest abilities and to learn different apps.
•Technology is advancing and we can also use different WebQuests for our students. They are a kind of online teaching lessons. One of them is Zunal, which is very easy to deal with.
We may create online exercises for them using online generators.
•What about a class Webpage?
It allows learning to take place everywhere and anytime. Here, we can all post announcements, different materials, photos.
Students can access objectives, notes, worksheets, extra information and so on.
We can create a blog, or we can also use online platforms such as: Google Classroom.


Look at all these ways we can use to integrate technology in our teaching and learning.
I have only mentioned some of them, but they are much more.
But, do not get confused, technology is not a solution, it is a tool. A tool which helps us to improve our way of teaching, but never to replace us.
We should be careful while using it. We should always keep in mind that technology is there to 'serve' us.

P.s Feel free to share your opinions.

Thank you!

DDD-E Model and Constructivism

Heyyy.
Welcome back to my blog!
Today' topic is about DDD-E Model, Constructivism in teaching and the role of Multimedia.

DDD-E Model was a new term for me, so I had to take a look on Google and I found that it is a model of how you organize a project.
Have you ever heard it before ?
Each letter stands for a specific action.
D- stands for Decide.
During this phase, we determine what kind of project we wish to do. We decide the topic/subject, roles of team members and so on.
D- stands for Design.
In this phase you use different tools to structure your assignment such as flowcharts and storyboards.
D- stands for Develop.
In this phase you pull together all the materials you find and you support the framework you built on the design phase.
E- stands for Evaluate.
In this phase you reflect on your success.

DDD-E Model is a practical step-by-step approach to teaching multimedia skills as well. We choose and determine which media components are better to use, which are the most productive ones.
I think all the teachers should teach this model to their students, because it will be a big help for them when dealing with different projects. This model allows us to have a very-well planned and a detailed project.
So, first we decide the topic and we determine the project's goals.
Next we find tools.
Then we find and develop all the materials.
At the end we assess its success.
Actually, evaluation happens every time, it is behind every stage.
DDD-E Model clarifies what we really want to do with our project.

What about Constructivism? What is it?
It is a theory which states that people build, construct and even create their own knowledge through experiencing things.
To do this, we have to ask a lot of questions and at the same time assess what we already know and what we want to learn.
It is not a passive method and this is very important.
It is a student-centered approach. Everything is focused on them.
Maybe, we are not used to this method, because what traditional teachers use are only textbooks and workbooks and everything is based on them.
Sometimes, using only the textbook can be a framed method, since learning is based on repetition.
Of course, repetition is the mother of learning, but it becomes boring if it's the only thing happening in the class.
Traditional teachers has always been the authority in class and sometimes students learned nothing. Teachers speaking all the time and students just listening is not fruitful.
A quote by Benjamin Franklin says:
         "Tell me and I forget
          Teach me and I remember
          Involve me and I learn."
So, students learn better if they are actively engaged during the lessons. That's what constructivism suggests.
In traditional teaching, students work mostly alone. Yes, there are students who work better individually, but team work is proved to be highly productive, because students have the possibility to share their opinions and to 'get' from others what they don't know. Students learn more by their peers than by their teachers. While working in groups, students may display their talent or what they are good at. This allows every student to work on and to show their strongest abilities.

Teacher's role in Constructivism is very significant because it stimulates students to formulate their questions and it allows for different points of view. In constructivism there's not only one interpretation.
Teachers help students develop what they already know and use that knowledge to solve problems. Ideas should be reinforced. Reintroducing concepts already learned in a  'spiral' format helps students to reach a deeper level of understanding.
As you can notice, this method is closely connected to Cooperative Learning, Multiple Intelligences and Project Based Learning, as it emphasizes the importance of team work and projects.
We can make Cooperative Learning, MI and Constructivism part of our teaching by using Kagan structures.
The focus of Kagan structures is to find a funny and fresh way to deliver a content. This method allows students to work as a team. Students don't just learn about the skills, they acquire them, because they practice them daily.

Here are some of the benefits of Constructivism and at the same time of Kagan structures.
•Students learn more, because they are active, involved and engaged in what they learn. They experience things themselves. This method has nothing to do with just memorizing things and repeating them, but it emphasizes the idea of critical thinking and understanding.
•Constructivism gives students ownership of what they learn. They understand that they have created their knowledge and they feel proud of it.
•Since students work primarily in groups, they collaborate with each-other and improve their communication and social skills.
•Kagan structures lead to authentic assessment, because the teacher can listen to all the students in the classroom, what they are thinking and what they know.

What is the role of Multimedia in all this?
As we have said Multimedia is the integration of texts, graphics, animation, videos, pictures and sounds.
The most used form of Multimedia in our classrooms is Power Point Presentations used mainly by the teachers, but even by the students when they present a project.
By using multimedia students:
•Can apply real-world skills related to technology.
•Are encouraged to work together in order to solve problems and construct knowledge. They learn the value of teamwork.
•Learn the importance of different media.
•Learn how to present information in compelling ways by including pictures, audio and all elements of Multimedia.
•Learn the importance of research and organization skills. Since students are going to make their own research, they will learn how to choose the most appropriate information and how to organize it in order to be fully conveyed.

All in all, the methods mentioned above can be highly productive if they are used properly. As future teachers, we have the opportunity to include them in our teaching, not just to make it efficient, but also attractive and funny.

Hope you enjoyed my post!
Stay safe!
Thank you for your time! :)