Licda. SILVIA SOWA The second key to motivate good organization is for a teacher to demonstrate excellent examples of projects that others have created. Some commercial titles, which adult professionals with large budgets have prepared, may or may not be effective models. The third key to helping students organize information is to encourage the students to unleash their creativity by finding new metaphors for information. Students may decide that the information will appear to be a book, a map a library building, a town, or a picture of an object with hot areas that users can select in order to see and hear more information. The fourth key to good organizations is helping students execute an effective process such as the following:
Understand the assignment. Brainstorm and do research. Select pieces of information to include in the project. Discuss several overall organizations. Select an organization. Decide on a metaphor for visualizing the body of information. Decide on one or more media to represent each piece of information. Prepare scripts and story boards as required. Fill in the organization with the media. Provide links among the pieces of information. Test the result with typical members of the project´s intended audience.
MULTIMEDIA II