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  2. Visual literacy in education - Wikipedia

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    Today, students must be able to present and decode written and visual images, presenting educators with the task of teaching visual literacy in the classroom. Students today are using PowerPoint, PhotoStory, MovieMaker and other tools to create presentations in the classroom. This presents a challenge to educators as they seek to empower their ...

  3. Information and media literacy - Wikipedia

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    Students are no longer limited to desktop computer. They may use mobile technologies to graph mathematical problems, research a question for social studies, text message an expert for information, or send homework to a drop box. [32] Students are accessing information by using MSN, personal Web pages, Weblogs and social networking sites.

  4. Electronic media - Wikipedia

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    RTF was especially valued because it could store important document information such as formatting, font, and style. Later, image formats such as JPEG and PNG were introduced, allowing for the storage and transmission of digital images. The introduction of digital audio and video formats further expanded the range of digital file formats available.

  5. Multimedia - Wikipedia

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    Video, still images, animation, audio, and written text are the building blocks on which multimedia takes shape. In the 1990s, some computers were called "multimedia computers" because they represented advances in graphical and audio quality, such as the Amiga 1000, which could produce 4096 colors (12-bit color), outputs for TVs and VCRs, and ...

  6. Edublog - Wikipedia

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    According to extant literature, students use blogging in classrooms for different purposes. Blogs are used to showcase individual student work by enabling them to publish texts, video clips, audio clips, maps, photos and other images, projects and suchlike in a potentially publicly accessible forum.

  7. Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    Allan Paivio's dual-coding theory is a basis of picture superiority effect. Paivio claims that pictures have advantages over words with regards to coding and retrieval of stored memory because pictures are coded more easily and can be retrieved from symbolic mode, while the dual coding process using words is more difficult for both coding and retrieval.

  8. Social media in education - Wikipedia

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    Students' digital skills improved and peer learning and problem-solving increased. [48] A 2012 study reported that videos kept students' attention, generated subject matter interest, and clarified course content. [49] Students reported that videos helped them recall information and visualize real-world applications.

  9. Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on ...

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    Don't re-upload the image—just edit the image description page and add the licensing information! Also, the wiki software can change the display size of the images, so you do not need to re-upload a smaller version of the same image to use a smaller version in an article. See Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. There, you can learn how to use ...