Multimedia Support for Teaching Physics

1. Multimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovakia

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

3. 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. Physics as an Adventure of Cognition Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld Goal Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

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

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

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

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

8. Scenariolevel 0 The Introduction Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

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

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

11. Scenariolevel 3 MENU: Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

12. Sounds • To hear or to read? • Recording wav-files • Compression to mp3-files (Lame) • The biggest part of application • Multilingual Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

13. Testing • Pre-testing (20 people) • Testing with children • 8-9 years old (3x15 children) • 14-16 years old (2x15 children) Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

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

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

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

17. Thank you for your attention kovarova@fiit.stuba.sk

18. Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová

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

20. Software - Flash • Interaction • SVG • Import sounds (mp3) • Resultant size of application is suitable for CD • Accessible (license) Virtual University 2004 Mutimedia Support for Teaching Physics Alena Kovárová