There are a variety of authoring tools that can be used for students to express their ideas in a multimedia environment. These include concept map communication tools, like the Inspiration program we used in class. This is a great tool for students to visually organize their ideas and see connections between topics. There are also slide-based communication tools, such as Powerpoint. These are great for lectures and outlining topics. Students can use these to whatever degree of involvement they choose, adding pictures, video, and audio clips. There are also clip-based communication tools that use both audio and video clips. Although these can be used in other types of tools, there can be longer segments of motion pictures and animation in clip-based tools.
I think that tools like the concept map can be used at many ages and in many different areas of study, even with somewhat younger children. It would be a great way to show connections visually between related pieces of information, and introduce the concept of sets and subsets.
I wonder how clip-based communication tools really differ from slide based ones? It seems they share a lot of the same capabilities as far as transferring information.
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