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Using Multiple Media

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Using Multiple Media and Formats is a UDL strategy presented in Chapter 6 of Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age.

Key Concepts:

1. A single means of presentation doesn't work for all students: differentiate by learning style and interests

2. Providing multiple media and formats gives choice but also incorporates redundancy

3. Multiple representations should suit content and tie closely with instructional goals

Sample Lesson that uses Multiple Media and Formats

Sharon Leung created a unit for the BC UDL LOR on the topic of awareness in advertising. In this unit students use many types of multimedia. Sharon will be presenting this unit as a "UDL Makeover" at SEA's Crosscurrents Conference March 31/April1, 2010.

"I had often regretted in the past that the students could not visualize the remote backwoods settings for some of our favourite wilderness survival novels. However, now we can fill the board with high quality photographs of an Alaskan fish camp, view and listen to the swoosh of a turning fish wheel or the rush or spring break up on the Yukon River. Multisensory output makes the content relevant and accessible to students with varying preferred learning pathways and increases student engagement" (Year 2 UDL team member Suzanne McCarthy from SMARTBoards Benefit Special Needs Student, The Vital Link LATA Journal, vol. 14 Fall 2009.

Discussion:

1. What kinds of different media and formats do you use in your teaching?

2. What particular teaching strategies or activities incorporate the use of Multiple Media?

3. Can you recommend a favourite Multiple Media resource?

4. What are some of the challenges of using Multiple Media?

The teams contributed ideas to chat pods and then discussed these questions during the online meeting.

Teaching Strategies/Activities/Resources:

In general, provide visuals to back up verbal explanations and provide verbal explanations of visuals. Other strategies include:

	Manipulatives, real and virtual. Be aware that you are adding an extra layer of abstraction when you move from concrete to virtual manipulatives. Virtual manipulatives are useful when the real experience is not available or too dangerous. Check out Science Man's demos of the Chem Lab and Math virtual supports in Yenka.
	The spoken word is transitory: consider recording critical portions of your lessons using digital voice recorders, the NB recorder, Jing screen capture, or use the Sound Ampr App on the latest iTouch.
	Use a variety of alternatives to printed text, e.g. ARC-BC provides a variety of formats for many BC curriculum materials
	HyperWords Firefox extension links to a variety of references for a single word. Just highlight a word on a web page and choose options from a drop down list. The options include translating the word, searching for it on Google, and looking it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
	Many cross-curricular strategies or activities provide alternate media and formats, e.g. Google Lit Trips show a character's journey in a story or novel through Google Maps. (You'll need to install Google Earth to be able to use these .kmz format files.)
	Don Johnson's Start to Finish Series includes classic books written at an easier level and presented in printed, audio, and digital form. Your SET-BC consultant should have copies of these that you can preview.
	Use a variety of resources for research, e.g. the Usborne Internet-Linked Books are printed books with links to web resources (K-7). The BC Science 8 website points teachers to additional resources which support the content on particular page numbers in their text. As publishers begin to produce digital texts, these may be directly linked.

Related Word and SB features:

In MS Word, you have the ability to embed supports using a variety of media.

	Select a word(s) and right click to add a hyperlink to other media.
	Insert pictures or Clip Art to add images.
	Use Text Comments to add text supports.
	Use Voice Comments to add auditory supports.

The SMARTBoard supports the use of multiple media including text, visuals, audio, and video.

	The Gallery contains a large number of ready-to-use multi-media items.
	Use My Content to store examples you have collected. Add key words to your items to make them searchable.
	Use Attachments Tab to store or link to media to ensure lesson flow.
	It is easy to import and export different file types, e.g. pdf and ppt