lesson:16 Using the Project-Based Learning Multimedia as a Teaching-Learning Strategy

                 

                                    USING the  PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MULTIMEDIA                                                   as a  TEACHING-LEARNING STRATEGY


        When we plan a multimedia learning project as a teaching strategy,we begin by clarifying our goals and objectives.From the list of objectives and content found in the K to 12 Curriculum Guide,we select which ones will lend themselves to a project-based multimedia learning strategy.Since this strategy requires much time,we need to be realistic in the amount of time we have to spend as seen against  time available or face failure and disappointment afterwards.

Project-based multimedia learning is one instructional strategy that we can use and may also include non-technical projects, lecture  and note-talking, writing and artistic or creative project-based multimedia learning strategy in teaching English process through distance education:

1. It is a powerful motivator students engaged in the creating in multimedia projects.

2. It makes teachers look for and apply the methods that optimize learning effect.

3. It makes teachers structurize the form of material.

Distance education is a multimedia education that uses for educational purposes e-mail textbooks, videoconferences, a computerized slide show, Web site and taking part in discussion in focus groups.

In this sense, one of the subjects which has been more extensively used in distance language teaching is focus groups.

Focus groups are organized discussion with a selected group of people with objective of gaining information about their views and experiences on a topic (Gibbs, 1998).

While focus groups have been used mostly in the fields of marketing our business specialities, over the past few decades they have come to be used as the methods of data gathering in qualitative studies.