A brief presentation about multimedia and teaching.

1. Blogs, Media and the Classroom Dr. Peter Cullen Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature University of Urbino Carlo Bo www.cl4englishlistening.wordpress.com www.ithg.wordpress.com Parliamo di Didattica University of Urbino 2008

4. What is Communication? The language process uses a code to communicate a message from a producer to a receiver – but: Each variable depends on its relationship to the other variables for understanding to happen. Producer code message communication receiver understanding Feedback loop at each stage MEMORY

7. Multi-media and the Message Classroom problems: learning styles time/schedule space/distance to message

11. Understanding Media in Teaching Jukka Korpela (U Helsinki Network IT spec.  2001) Language differences. On the Internet, for example, the lingua franca is badly written and poorly understood English . Some people use it as their native language; other learned some of it from various sources. In any case, whatever you say will be interpreted in a myriad of ways, whether you use idiomatic English or not.

13. Understanding Media in Teaching Intercultural communication is about learning to understand message across cultural histories. Assumption Belief Participation