The use of multimedia offers many advantages:
1. Enhancement of Text Only Messages: Multimedia enhances text only presentations by adding interesting sounds and compelling visuals.2. Improves over Traditional Audio-Video Presentations: Audiences are more attentive to multimedia messages than traditional presentations done with slides or overhead transparencies.
3. Gains and Holds Attention: People are more interested in multimedia messages which combine the elements of text, audio, graphics and video. Communication research has shown that the combination ofcommunication modes (aural and visual) offers greater understanding and retention of information. 4. Good for "computer-phobics": Those who are intimidated by computer keyboards and complex instructions are more comfortable with pressing buttons with a mouse or on a screen.
5. Multimedia is Entertaining as Well as Educational.
Multimedia activities encourage students to work in groups, express their knowledge in multiple ways, solve problems, revise their own work, and construct knowledge. The advantages of integrating multimedia in the classroom are many. Through participation in multimedia activities, students can learn:
- Real-world skills related to technology
- The value of teamwork
- Effective collaboration techniques
- The impact and importance of different media
- The challenges of communicating to different audiences
- How to present information in compelling ways
- Techniques for synthesizing and analyzing complex content
- The importance of research, planning, and organization skills
- The significance of presentation and speaking skills
- How to accept and provide constructive feedback
- How to express their ideas creatively
