Multimedia Resources

Multimedia Resources

1. Teacher

   • Advantages
     • Optimize the conditions of a text, through explanatory images, diagrams, infographics, among others.
     • Increases interactions with students
     • Promotes teacher-student communication.
     • Orientation of learning.
     • Enables the student to achieve learning on his own.
     • Strengthening learning effectiveness.
     • They stimulate the ability to pay attention.
   • Disadvantages
     • Creation of addiction regarding the use of these media.
     • Problems with computers.
     • Development of minimum effort strategies.
     • Appearance of visual fatigue and saturation.
     • Failure of new technologies, forcing the individual to return to the use of the traditional media mentioned above.
     • Decrease of group work and development of individualized behavior.

2. Student

   • Advantages
     • They help meaningful learning
     • Flexible
     • Motivational for the student
     • Can be adapted to heterogeneous classes (diversity)
     • Offer ideal learning assessment tools that are also entertaining.
     • Can be used in a mixed form
     • Facilitate research processes.
     • Develop digital skills.
   • Disadvantages
     • High cost of acquisition and maintenance of computer equipment.
     • Dependence on technical elements to interact and use the materials.
     • Dizzying speed at which technical resources advance, making equipment obsolete in a very short period of time.
     • Compatibility and dependence
     • Adding too many large files with images or videos may mean that you must use larger computer storage files.
     • Multimedia production requires an electronic device, which can be relatively expensive.
     • In order to function, they depend on permanent electrical power. If this fails, there is no way to use them.
     • Incomplete and superficial learning.
     • Anxiety.