Allan Gilbert M.

Jain
Multimedia Presentations

A multimedia
presentation differs from a
normal presentation in that it
contains some form of animation
or media.
 Typically a multimedia
presentation contains at least one of
the following elements:

 Video or movie clip.

 Animation.
 Sound (this could be a voice-over,
background music or sound clips)
A study says that students are more
likely to watch videos as opposed to
reading a text. With an increase in
access to electronic devices,
students can now whip out their
phone or laptop and watch
lectures.
Why Should Teachers Use Videos
In The Classroom?
 Using videos in the classroom reaches children with a
variety of learning styles. Be it visual, aural, physical or
verbal.
 Motivates and engage students by allowing them to learn at
their own pace.
 Video allows teachers to save hours of repetitive teaching.
 Help mitigate cheating and bring out the creativity in every
student.
 Teachers can use videos to give personal feedback on
student’s work instead of being verbal.
 Students can re-watch videos anytime and anywhere when
absent or during exam revision.
How Can Videos Help Students In
The Classroom?

 Promotes Independent Learning

 Makes Student Future Ready
 Boost In-Class Engagement
 Facilitates Peer-Peer Collaboration
Different Types of Videos To Use In
The Classroom

 Live Lecture Videos

 Mini Screen Recording Videos
 Video Presentations
 Video Assignments
Tools for Video Creation and
Editing

 Filmora
 Windows Movie Maker
 Adobe Premier Pro
 Blender
 Lightworks
Windows Movie Maker is a free software if
you have already purchased your windows
operating system. You can use it to create
and edit videos, pictures. It creates a kind of
slide show as in a power point presentation
although the difference is that you can
publish your work on WMM directly on
YouTube or process it in any other format.
How to begin

As you can see your options are on the top of the

screen. The best way to begin is by adding pictures or
video (pre-recorded or video from any free sites – just
make sure that the videos, pictures or music you’re
using in your movies do not have a copyright) to your
project.
How to begin

You just have to click the Add videos and

photos button and then make your choices. When you
add photos or videos your WMM will look like this:
On the right you have a larger version of the first picture or
video from the left side. The right side is where you can
view what you’re editing. You edit anything you have to by
working on the left side, where the pictures or videos are
imported and you also have to use the tools that are on the
top of the screen.
How to use the timeline
The timeline is the black vertical line that appears at the
beginning of your video.

You can drag that line wherever you want to in your movie. As you can see
in the sample the timeline is now at the end of the first picture. This is
very useful in order to introduce music or text only where YOU want to.
Adding music
If you want to add music to it then you just have to
push the Add music button and pick your choice. After
adding some music your slide should look something
like this:
You should observe that a green line, with the name of
the song and artist, appeared on the right side of the
screen just above your pictures or videos. You can try
to push the play button on the left side of the screen
under the larger image to see how it looks like.
Editing music
If you don’t want the music to start from the first
picture and you’d rather it started from the second
then click on the green line (for music) and drag it
while holding the left mouse button on the green
horizontal line and drag it to the beginning of the
second picture. It will look like this:

You can play the movie to see if you like it like this or
not. If not then just drag it back to the beginning
Also, if you want to just change the starting point and
ending point of your song, you have to click on
the Music Tools button on the top of the screen. You
will see some new options appear on your screen
which are important for editing the song you are using
in your movie. The Music Tools looks like this:
As you can see you don’t have that many options but at
least you can fade in and fade out the song and add the
start and end point of your music. You can choose
from 3 types of fading speeds which are Slow, Medium
and Fast. As for the duration of the song just type in at
what time you want your music to start and at what
time you want it to stop.
Now you might have noticed that you have Start time,
Start point and End point.
 Start time means at what time in the movie you want
it to start (for example: right from the beginning of the
movie or just from the second picture).
 Start point is a nice tool which allows you to start the
song at any moment you’d like. With this tool you can
cut out the first part of the music and begin directly
with the 40th second or jump start anywhere you want.
 End point is the time when you want the song to end
in the movie.
Music Tools with changes:

As you can see I change the Fade in and Fade out

speed and also the Start time, start point and end
point. As a result you can see the changes on the left
side of your screen.
Adding text

By now you have some pictures and music in your

movie(you don’t have to add music if you don’t want to
and not even text…it’s always up to you). Some of you
might want to add also some text in the movie. In
order to do this you have to push the Caption button
which is between Title and Credits next to the Add
music button.
After you’ve pushed the Caption button a caption for
adding text will appear on the left screen, this time
under the pictures or videos. This way it’s visually easy
to distinguish the music and text timeline.
Text editing

Just double click the text timeline and type in

anything you want. However, if you want to make your
text last longer or just change the duration of the text
you have to start editing it already, justdouble click the
text timeline or click on the Text Tools which is on the
top of the screen next to Video Tools and Music
Tools. When you click this section you will see that
some new options will appear which are very similar to
the Word Document editing options. What you have
to do here is simply to click on Text duration and
insert the length of the time you’d like your text to last.
When done it should look like this:
You can also change
the size, format, transparency, alignment and colo
ur of your text simply by clicking on the icons above
the picture on the right side of your screen. You can
always re-edit your text by clicking on the Edit
Text button on the top of the screen in the Text
tools section.
Video editing

Editing your video is very similar to editing your music.

It has the same options as the Music Tools section.
One extra option is the trimming option. If you have a
video that you would like to have in your movie but
don’t want the entire video because it’s too long or
because you just want to use a part of it then you can
trim it (cut it up into pieces). Trimming is quite easy in
WMM. You have to click the video on the right side of
your screen first and then click the Trim tool option
in the Video Tools section on the top of the screen.
On the left side of your screen the trimming tool for
the video will appear. You can either go to the top of
the screen and add the Start point and End point for
the trimmed section of your video…
OR
You can drag the Start point and End point on the
video where you want to.
In the classroom

 You could ask your students to make a movie instead

of a power point presentation whenever they have to
work on a project
In the classroom

 They could record short or long videos for their project

using only their phones or if you have a video
camera….well, even better and add these to their
movie so it becomes more personal
In the classroom

 You could ask them to take pictures for their project

themselves (so there is no copyright issue anymore)
In the classroom

 You could ask them to make a movie based on a story.

You’d have to ask them to think of the plot of the story
together and then devide them into groups (or they
could work individually also if you’d like) and ask each
group to write one part of the story.
Outside the classroom

 You could ask them to keep a vlog (video blog) for a

week or a month about what they have been learning
for that period of time or their impressions on each
lesson or each week and then edit and produce a movie
about it.
Outside the classroom

 You could ask them to keep a video diary for a month

or so, filming themselves maybe 3 times a week about
what they learned. This way they could practice their
past tensesJ if you want them to practice grammar.
Nonetheless, you could ask them practice any type of
grammatical issue through this and they could have
some fun with it too in the meantime
Outside the classroom

 Whenever you ask them to read a book, you could tell

them to choose a picture from Flickr or Google and
associate it to each of the chapters in the book and tell
the story through a short movie. They could have a
slide of each picture and a recording of them talking
about why they have chosen that picture for that
chapter. This is helpful for letting them tinker about
their own perception of the book and how they
visualize it.