Multimedia On A Shoestring

Fred D'Ignazio
Instructor, April 1996, p. 35-36, 40

Through a collaborative effort, teachers and their students are able to create small, low-tech multimedia centers in the classroom. Once in place, additional resources from the school, parents, and the community will make their way into these centers. The centers can be set up using what is currently available and the students, each focusing on one area of multimedia, can oversee the gathering of the equipment and can teach one another how to use it.

The steps to creating a mini-multimedia center are: group students into multimedia teams, have each team take inventory of all available equipment and materials, have each team gather its material together wherever the center is to be located, have teams write guides to using each center, have teams try the guides they have written and then transfer them to print or other media, and lastly have the students train one another in the use of the multimedia tools in the center.

A suggested list of mini-centers are: audio center, video center, writing center, graphics center, telecommunications center, research/capture center, and publishing center.

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
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