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The Appeal of visual media continues to make film, video and television as educational tools with high potential impact. They are now accessible and less cumbersome to use. Let us take advantage of them in the classroom

The film, the video, and the TV are indeed very powerful. Dale (1969)

says, they can;1. Transmit a wide range of audio.2. Bring models of excellence to the viewer.3. Bring the world of reality to home and to

the classroom through a “live” broadcast or as mediated through film or

videotape.4. Make us see and hear for ourselves

world events as they happen.5. Be the most believable news source.

6. Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age

and educational levels7. Become a great equalizer of educational

opportunity because programs can be presented over national and regional networks.8. Provide us with sounds and sights not

easily available even to the viewer of a real event.

9. Can give opportunity to teachers to view

themselves while they teach for purpose of self-improvement.10. Can both instructive and

enjoyable.

While the film, video and TV can do so much, they have their own limitations,

too.1. Television and film are one-way

communication device consequently, they encourage passivity.2. The small screen size puts television at a disadvantage when compared with the

possible size of projected motion pictures.3. Excessive TV viewing works against the

development of the child's ability.4. There is so much violence in TV.

Basic Procedures in the use of TV as a Supplementary Enrichment

For enrichment of the lesson with the use of TV, we have to do the following:

1. Prepare the classroom- darken the room;- the students should not be seated

too near nor too farm from the TV.

2. Pre-viewing Activities- set goals and explanations;- link the TV lesson with past lesson;- set the rules while viewing;- point out the key points they need to focus on.

3. Viewing- don't interrupt viewing by inserting cautions and announcements you forgot to give during the pre-

viewing stage;- just make sure sights and sounds

are clear.

4. Post-viewing- to mane them feel at ease begin by

asking the following questions:1. What do you like best in the

film?2. What part of the film makes

you wonder? Doubt?3. Does the film remind you of

something or someone?4. What questions are you asking

about the film?

5. Go to the questions raised at the pre-viewing stage.6. Tackle the questions raised by the

students at the initial stage of the post-viewing discussion.

7. Ask what the student learned.8. Summarize what was learned.

The film, video and TV are powerful instructional tools. When they are used appropriately and moderately, they can make the teaching-learning process more concrete, lively colorful and interactive. It contributes to a more lasting learning because of its visual, audio and motion effects. These effects make learning fun. However, misuse and abuse of their use in the classroom or even at home has far reaching damaging effects in the development of children's imaginative and thinking powers and sensitivity to human life.

The most significantly cited weakness of the TV is the effect of TV violence on peoples' aggressive behavior.

With the coming of the VCR, viewing need not be passive anymore. We can have interactive viewing with VCR.

FRANZ BENEDICT REBURONDIONICIA TABANGCURA

CHEENE TOLEDOPRECIOUS BENAVIDEZ

AILEEN JULIET TORRANOMAY ANN CORPUZ

JOHN PAUL RAGANDAP