MULTIMEDIA AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

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• MULTIMEDIA AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
• DESIGNING MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE
• Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
• Former Professor-cum-Deputy Director
• CIIL, Mysore 570006, Karnataka, India
• Former Visiting ProfessorFaculty of Malaysian
  Languages and LinguisticsUniversity of
  MalayaKuala LumpurMalaysia

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What is Multimedia?

• Multimedia is the combination of the following
  five components/elements
• Text
• Art
• Sound
• Animation and
• Video

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• If all the above five factors are appropriately
  linked, the multimedia package will become highly
  auto instructional in its nature.
• Maximum utility of the modern technology is the
  Main objective of this training programme.

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• Changes Taking Place!
• Changing concepts.
• Changing technologies
• Disappearance of concepts.
• The process of modernization.
• Increasing in efficiency and potentialit.y
• This is happening in every field.
• One cannot avoid this!
• Teachers are no exception to this process!

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• Primary aims of a Multimedia package is to
  transform the end users from
• 1. Passive learners to
• 2. Active learners or Experimental learners
• How to achieve this through designing?
• Two main parameters to achieve this

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• 1. Establish a perfect link between the five
  elements -
• Text, Art, Sound, Animation and Video to achieve
• high interactivity -- an interactive multi
  media.
• 2. Smooth navigation between the elements by the
• end user to get hypermedia (hyper linking
  the
• relevant learning component for the learner
  to
• follow directly and interact).

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• Two Primary Divisions
• While designing Multimedia packages
• for language teaching -
• 1. Designing for computer presentation
• 2. Content (subject) designing
• Both should synchronize at every level frame
  by frame

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• 1. Designing for computer presentation
• i) Designing the general appearance
• ii) Designing the interface

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• 1.Designing the general appearance
• Five points to note
• 1.Color combination
• 2.Reality of the pictures
• 3.Number of pictures in every page
• 4.Size of fonts and their relationships with the
  content(titles, subtitles, other points etc.)
• 5.Synchronization of the music with the
  activities

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• 2. Interface Designing
• Seven points to note
• 1.Clarity in presentation
• 2.Selection of icons and their understandability
• 3.Systematic and graded progressive navigation
  with navigation clues
• 4.Reverse navigation if needed

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• 5. Icon to go back to the first page (animated
  monkey)
• 6. Provision for Learner based desired navigation
  (options)
• 7.Proper directions to the user for systematic
  navigation

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2.Content (subject) designing

• 1. Pre designing brain storming phase
• 2. Post designing end user testing phase
• 3. Post designing revision phase
• 4. Designing phase

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1.Pre designing brain storming phase

• Objectives
• To identify the micro level objectives
• To decide on the topics
• To decide on the topic gradation
• To decide on the grammatical gradation
• To decide on the type of exercises
• To decide on the testing strategies

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2.Post designing user testing phase

• Objectives
• To identify the gaps in the material
• To identify the problems in appearance
• To identify any incomprehensibility
• To identify any other problems in the multimedia
  package

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3.Post designing revision phase

• Objectives
• To make appropriate revisions on the basis of the
  feed back

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4. Designing phase Fifteen points to note

• 1.Every learning component must have a specific
  objective/objectives
• 2.Identified learning objectives should be
  materialized through interactive and hyperlinked
  multimedia activities

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• 3.Designers efficiency depends on what extent
  the material is auto instructional
• 4.Designer should be an expert in that subject
• 5. Designer need to be a creative artist
• 6. Lesson based clarity
• 7. Avoid the ambiguity
• 8.Short and easy comprehensibility of the
  instructions

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• 9. Foresightedness of the material producer
• a) error speculation
• b) speculating the FAQ give a link
• c) inculcating creative thinking
• 10.Academic competence of the material producer
• a) subject knowledge
• b) artistic lookout
• c) creative thinking
• d) innovative nature

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• 11. Hyperlink
• a) explain the specific concept which come in
  the lesson
• eg) greeting pattern in the target language
• b)give another cultural pattern while greeting
  in order to illustrate
• c)directions to have further reading and
  viewing through reference of books and web sites

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• 12.Materials potentiality to cater to the need
  of the heterogeneous learners Identify the
  nature of heterogeneity
• 13.Exercises Every exercise should have an
  objective which is lesson based
• a)micro level practice through various
  exercises
• b)every lesson should have exercises to
  practice all the language skills

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• c) Interactivity of the exercises various
  activity oriented exercises
• 14.Testing All kinds of possible tests should
  be conducted
• 15.Evaluation Constant maintenance of linking
• a) curriculum objectives and,
• b) skill oriented lesson based objectives
  while devising evaluation strategies

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• c) relevant anecdotes to illustrate the points in
  the lesson
• vocabulary level (crazy vs stupid)
• semantic variations
• d) interesting and relevant stories
• e) jokes through pictures and narration
• f) illustrative pictures (cultural
  incompatibility)
• g) cartoons

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• Eg. Script teaching. Roughly 16 different
  activities
• 1. hand movement
• 2. pronunciation (listening)
• 3. letter combination (listening)
• 4. pronunciation variations (listening)
• 5. visual representation (picturization)
• 6. pronunciation variations (listening)
• 7.practicing component (writing)

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• 8. pronunciation variations (listening)
• 9.practicing component (writing)
• 10. practicing component (pronunciation)
• 11. exercise component
• 12. contrasting pronunciation (listening)
• 13. contrasting pronunciation (practicing)
  
• 14. section on evaluation
• 15. vocabulary development
• 16. section on grading the learner achievement

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• Approximately 18 member team / who attend to 18
  different activities is ideal to prepare the
  multimedia packages
• Functions and designations of the personnel
  involved in preparing the multimedia packages
• 1. Executive producer Overall supervision
• 2.Producer/Project manager Responsible for
  overall development and implementation of the
  project and co coordinating the day to day
  operations.

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• 3. Creative director / Multimedia Designer
• 4. Art director / Visual Designer
• 5. Artists
• 6. Interface Designer
• 7. Game Designer
• 8. Subject Matter Expert
• 9.Instructional Designer / Training Specialist

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• 10. Script Writer
• 11. Animator (1-D/3-D)
• 12. Sound Producer
• 13. Music Composer
• 14. Video Producer
• 15. Multimedia Programmer
• 16. HTML Coder
• 17. Lawyer/Media Acquisition
• 18. Marketing Director

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• Ship Game
• Tamil script writing system

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Icons
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• Quiz

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• Evaluation

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• Learner's Grading

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• Question and Answers

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• Home Page Designe

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ALL THE BEST

• Thank You
• sammohanlal_at_gmail.com