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Thursday, February 12, 2004
Multimedia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Malura M. Shady, TechLearning
There is no escaping the challenges set before the educators of today's student. As educators, we once only had to compete against television with its cartoons and MTV. We now have to battle for attention over the latest video or computer game. Each new game becomes more realistic than the last and technology is growing to the point that movies can be made without any humans while the characters still appear to be human, as in Final Fantasy. Teachers can meet and conquer these challenges with multimedia. Teachers must not only be stage performers, they must now be able to devise methods with which to grab and keep the attention of students. Multimedia presentations offer that opportunity and supply both teacher and student with the possibility to be creative and to expand beyond the boundaries that have limited them to this point.
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