1. Chapter 9
Darnese Wiggins

2. Multimedia Technologies in Schools Today
It means combining multiple media – text, data, voice, picture, and video- in a single application or technology.
Multimedia in education occurs when multiple media support teaching and learning in classrooms:
Using computer presentations that combine words, pictures, and sounds; viewing materials from websites, CD-ROMs, or TV programs Etc..

3. Multimodal learning happens when teachers combine spoken words with visuals or written text with audio or utilize simulations and models.
Multimodal learning through media found : Students are more engaged in learning that incorporates multimodal designs with single modes”

4. Comparing Minimal and Multimedia Classroom Technologies
To help understand the potential of multimedia technologies begins by examining their impact on teaching and learning in a classroom.
Minimal is how schools look technologically before the computer revolution, the technologies were functional but very limited in the amount of multimedia content they can deliver.
Multimedia is how schools look today with all different types of technologies throughout the classroom.

5. PowerPoint and Next Generation Presentations tools
PowerPoint is an multimedia presentation software package which is a standard feature on many of today's computers.
Millions on copies are in circulation, and the tool is widely used in schools.
It computerizes presentations that were previously done with transparencies on a overhead projector or slide in slide projector.
Digital projectors and documents cameras are technology tools that expand how PowerPoint can be uses as a student-engaging form of information presentation.

6. Technology Tools
Document camera captures whatever is under the lens and , when connected to a digital projector or a television set, projects that image onto a large screen or whiteboard
A digital projector projects images from a computer to a large screen or other external viewing surface.

7. Technology Tools
Overhead Projector
PowerPoint