Learn with multimedia

Guide to Learning With Multimedia (sounds, videos, pictures)

Over time my web site has grown from just links to many pages to downloaded documents, audio, and now video. 

Multimedia provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn on your own while sitting at home. All sort of interesting stuff can be seen and heard while surfing the Internet. Available are audio (voice and music), movie-like videos such as Flash, Shockwave, and Quicktime, and images (like photographs and maps).

The big two web browsers will allow you to view the more common multimedia files you will find on the Internet and this web site. Usually multimedia software is available for free on the Internet. The bad thing about multimedia is that it can take a long time to download and when you are surfing on a regular phone line this can be quite a pain. You should not waste time on a file such as this unless you are sure that the file will make it easier for you to learn. I have gone to an extreme in trying to make my videos and downloads as small as possible and educational.

To maximize your learning follow the steps below when you do watch a video from this site or any other, you’ll learn more and better if you do.

Answer the following questions, as you watch the training videos, on a separate sheet of paper:

  1. What is the name of the video you are watching?
  2. Which Microsoft Office Program is being shown in the training video?
  3. What are you supposed to learn from the video?
  4. What are the steps you need to follow in order to complete the task shown in the video?
  5. Can you think of an example where you would this information outside of Microsoft Office?
  6. In your own words, what did you learn from the training video?
  7. Repeat the steps you learned in the video without using the video or your notes to yourself (no need to write the steps down again).

With a partner:

  1. Tell your partner what you just learned and then show him/her the steps. Make sure your partner initials your sheet next to the number 7.
  2. Ask your partner to repeat what you just said and did so you can see it again.
  3. Create a concept map that shows what you have learned in this class this week.