LB #18 ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

• What is an educational media center?

                     The Educational Media Center functions as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the school's educational process.

1. It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.
2. It shares and implements the schools'aims and objeectives.
3. It is involved in the teaching and learning process.
4. It is a source center.
5. It is a learning laboratory.
6. It is a teaching agency.
7. It is a service agency.
8. A coordinating agency.
9. A center for recreational reading, viewing and listening.

• What roles and functions does an educational media center perform to serve the teaching learning process?

Roles of EMC

1. center of resources
2. laboratory for learning
3. agent of teaching
4. service agency
5. coordinating agency
6. recreational reading center
7. a stepping stone to other resources of the community.

FUNCTIONS OF EMC

1. The institutional media services
2. Media and instruction
3. Classroom facilities
4. Media program

          An EMC is a facility of the school system tasked to acquire,maintain,care and promote the full effective use of educational media. It houses both old and new technologies meant to make learning more efficient and effective. It facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional media. It organizes learning activities for students and teachers alike for them to upgrade and improve on their technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of motivating them to keep on developing their communication, analytical, integrative, creative and collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning.

LB #17 ASSESSMENT IN A CONSTRUCTIVIST, TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED LEARNING

1. Which form of assessment fits a constructivist technology-supported learning environment?

              The form of assessment that fits a constructivist technology-supported learning environment is the "Authentic assessment". AUTHENTIC assessment measures collective abilities, written and oral expression skills, analytical skills, manipulative skills, integration, creativity and ability to work collaboratively.

              In authentic assessment, students perform real world tasks, thus the world "authentic". It is an assessment of a process or a product. That is why authentic assessment includes performance or product assessment. The performance is reliable measure of skills learned and the product is a proof of the acquisition of skills.

LB # 16 USING THE PROJECT-BASED LEARNING MULTIMEDIA AS A TEACHING -LEARNING STRATEGY

• What are the steps involved in the use of project-based multimedia learning strategy?

                   The effective use of project-based multimedia learning requires through planning. Initiak planning involves:

1. clarifying goals and objectives
2. determining how much time is needed and extend of students' involvement in decision making
3. setting up forms of collaboration
4. identifying and determining what resources are needed
5. deciding on the mode to measure what students learn.

       THE VARIOUS PHASES OF THE PROJECT INCLUDE:

1. before the project starts
2. introduction of the project
3. learning the technology
4. preliminary research and planning
5. concept design and storyboarding
6. first draft production
7. assessing, testing and finalizing presentations
8. concluding activities

LB # 15 PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND MULTIMEDIA:what is it?

1. What is project-based multimedia learning?

                 Project-based multimedia learning is a teaching method in which students "acquire new knowledge and skills in the course of designing, planning, and producing multimedia product".

2.What are the elements of project-based multimedia learning?

                The elements of project-based multimedia learning are:

• core curriculum
• real-world connection
• extended time frame
• student decision making
• collaboration 
• assessment
• multimedia

3. Why use project-based multimedia learning?

                Because it is "value added" to your teaching.It is powerful motivator as proven in the class. It actively engages students in the learning task. Students are likewise engaged in the production of multimedia presentation.

4. What are the disadvantages of the use of project-based learning and multimedia project?

• You need time to orient the students on what are expected of them, guidelines, goals and objectives of the project, and more , so for your students to gather and organize their data, work on their presentations and the like.
• If the basic computer courses did not teach them these skills demanded by this strategy, there will be a problem.
• The tendency to lose track of the goals and objectives of your lesson because the technology aspect has gotten the limelight.

LB # 14 MAXIMIZING THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD PROJECTOR and THE CHALKBOARD

1. What techniques can help us maximize the use of the overhead projector and the chalkboard?

         CHALKBOARD TECHNIQUES

a. Sharpen your chalk to get good line quality.

b. Stand with your elbow high. Move along as you write.

c. Use dots as "aiming points". This keeps writing level.

d. Make all writing or printing between 2 and 4 inches high for legibility.

e. When using colored chalk , use soft chalk so that it can be erased easily.

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR TECHNIQUES

• You can show pictures and diagrams, using a pointer on the transparency to direct attention to a detail. 
• You can use a felt pen or wax-based pencil to add details or to make points on the transparency during projection.
• You can control  the rate of presenting information by covering a transparency with a sheet of paper or cardboard and then exposing data as you are ready to discuss each point.
• You can superimpose additional transparency sheets as overlays on a base transparency so as to separate  processes and complex ideas into elements and present them in step-by-step order.
• You can show three-dimensional objects from the stage of the projector .
• You can move overlays back and forth across the base in order to rearrange elements of diagrams or problems.

           With the use of this things we can easily teach our students and we  can easily understand  by them. So we need to maximize the use of projector and chalkboard because as a teacher we need to use this things someday.