MATCh: The Educational Potential

To support children’s intellectual development, the designed applications are both entertaining and educationally rich. They channel the powerful motivation created by multimedia towards learning and intellectual growth.

Applications intend to provide a model for children to play and be inspired by in order to motivate self created applications. Children need to be exposed to these models before they begin to author and as they are authoring. Starting out their authoring, children will begin to acknowledge the beauty of the screen design, the complexity of the information structure, or the consistency of the interface. At first one can be impressed by the whole, then as one begins to understand what happens at backstage, one can become a different viewer of the activities on stage.

Thus, use of these tools and application can invoke to follow the guideline for the sequence of multimedia production in order to foster quality of learning activities:

• Appreciation of various multimedia productions.
• Image construction of multimedia productions.
• Image enrichment by analysis of production and research outcome.
• Creation of a scenario and a blueprint.
• Production of parts (sound, music, pictures, animation, ... etc.)
• Assembly of parts.
• Presentation, performance and appreciation.

Also, an overall understanding of the features of multimedia expression is needed as follows:

• Expressing personality and originality of investigation on the program.
• Combining various modes of information, i.e. multimedia materials.
• Adding interactivity to the program.
• Designing an information structure which is easy for users to understand.
• Designing an interface which facilitates information retrieval.
• Combining logical expression and emotional expression.

Reflecting the merits of different roles within a group to achieve collaborative production.

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