Week 5 - Information and Media Literacy

This week dealt with how to present information that is both effective and visually pleasing. We looked at PowerPoint, Hypermedia, and Multimedia. We covered what Multimedia and Hypermedia are and how they can be effective. They are both really great for stimulating different parts of the brain. These can be great for people with different learning styles. Combinations of different types of media together can be educationally pleasing to the greatest number of people. This week also shows how to use PowerPoint more effectively. It showed the importance of consistancy, contrast, proximity and repetition in presentations.

This information will be really great in the future. I know that it will be very useful for teaching. Elementary School students may not respond well to PowerPoint generally. However, with the use of multimedia, I can make learning more fun for them. When learning is fun, kids want to learn more. Also, it's much easier to disguise to the kids that they are actually learning if it's in a fun movie or cartoon. Multimedia makes this more possible. If I chose to teach kids that are a little bit older (so that they can handle more information at once), I now know how to set up an effective PowerPoint. I know that just because the presentation may have pizazz, doesn't make it easier to comprehend the content presented. It can actually hinder the learning process. When in doubt, simple is better and more effective.


This YouTube video just shows a lot of very common multimedia examples. It shows how multimedia is used everyday.