Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
In many cases, teaching can be enhanced by the use of images, audio, or video. In the traditional classroom, these sorts of materials could only be introduced into instruction by showing the material in class or making it available for outside viewing by placing it on reserve. With the emergence of methods for digital storage and access to images, audio, and video, additional avenues have opened up for faculty who wish to make materials of various media types available to students.
Several groups within ITS offer services to help Yale faculty develop and deploy media to enhance classroom instruction. This and subsequent pages give an overview of the possible application of teaching-related media and offer general advice as well as detailed instructions on how to produce projects containing media in digital form. If you have further questions regarding your options in developing and deploying media in support of classroom instruction, contact the Instructional Technology Group at itg@yale.edu.
If there is a specific task (e.g., digitization of a large slide collection) for which you are seeking information, you may proceed directly to that topic using the menu on the left. If, however, you are unsure of exactly what you want to do and are interested in learning more about your options, the navigational arrows at the bottom of each page will take you through an overview of the types of multimedia, their typical uses in enhancing instruction, the pros and cons of converting traditional (i.e., analog) media to digital form, and what you need to do to get started if you opt in favor of digitization.
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Last updated:August 11, 2004