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Multimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Overview 2 v Goal + Motivation v Related Approaches v Effectivity + Interaction v Testing + Conclusions v Demonstration v Future Work Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Goal To create an educational, interactive and multimedia application, which in the same way as our resource book, helped to find and understand relations in physical phenomena. Virtual University 2004 3 Physics as an Adventure of Cognition Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Motivation Usual 4 Like game Text Text Text Text a lot of Text Text Text Text page full of Text Text only small picture Text Text neverending Text Text Text Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Related Approaches v Applets on web pages v Crocodile Clips v Didakta -Fyzika Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics 5 Alena Kovárová

Effectivity 6 How much we could remember? less of read of heard of saw (pictures) of heard and saw heard, saw and actively did most of own experiences (of realized, understood) Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Interaction 7 v Ones own experience is the best teacher v People like to control Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Scenario level 0 8 The Introduction Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Scenario level 1 9 Each experiment contains • Instructions • Questions • Interactive simulation Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Scenario level 2 10 Interactive simulation interaction mouse keyboard buttons start menu Virtual University 2004 4 -5 objects Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics start Alena Kovárová

Scenario level 3 11 MENU: Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Sounds v To 12 hear or to read? v Recording wav-files v Compression to mp 3 -files (Lame) v The biggest part of application v Multilingual Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Testing v Pre-testing v Testing 13 (20 people) with children • 8 -9 years old (3 x 15 children) • 14 -16 years old (2 x 15 children) Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Conclusions 14 v Application is appropriate for children who have already started learning physics v Supplementary learning tool in the educational process v Support the children’s understanding of physics Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Demonstration Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics 15 Alena Kovárová

Future Work 16 v Record sounds also for questions v Add some music to silent places v Create more experiments v Create version for Internet = sounds replaced by texts v Create experiments as interactive realistic 3 D models Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

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Motivation 19 Children want to play v The real games (physical experiment) + touch v Experiment in our application + possibility to change many other parameters Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

Software - Flash 20 v Interaction v SVG v Import sounds (mp 3) v Resultant size of application is suitable for CD v Accessible (license) Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová