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Communication Aids and Strategies Using Tools and Technology

The document discusses various communication aids and strategies for 21st century learners, including printed media, visual media, graphics, projected visuals, smart TVs, digital audio, video, video conferencing, email, and multi-modal texts. It emphasizes the importance of students being able to use these tools purposefully and judiciously to communicate effectively. A variety of traditional and emerging technologies are presented as ways to inform, instruct, and motivate students through visual and audio means.

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Communication Aids and Strategies Using Tools and Technology

The document discusses various communication aids and strategies for 21st century learners, including printed media, visual media, graphics, projected visuals, smart TVs, digital audio, video, video conferencing, email, and multi-modal texts. It emphasizes the importance of students being able to use these tools purposefully and judiciously to communicate effectively. A variety of traditional and emerging technologies are presented as ways to inform, instruct, and motivate students through visual and audio means.

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Communication Aids and Strategies

Using Tools and Technology


The challenge for 21" century learners is to be able to communicate
effectively using appropriate communication aids and strategies and to be
familiar or adept on using various tools and technology devices.
Communication aids come before us in the form of printed media, visual
media, graphics, projected visuals, smart television, and digital audio,
streaming audio, podcast, Internet Radio, Digital Player, Video, Video
Conferencing. Skype, E-mail and multi-modal texts. The challenge is for us to
be able to use them purposively and judiciously.
1. Printed Media.
This is considered one of the oldest forms of
instructional media used in the classroom and other
places. Printed media are used to inform, instruct,
motivate readers which we can be utilized like in a
classroom, as training materials in workshops, seminars,
or for information dissemination. In the classroom, this
may come in the form of worksheets, activity sheets,
textbooks and modules. Likewise, training materials
include handouts and manuals while printed
2. Visuals and Visual Media.
Anything like pictures used to
make communication interesting to
the audience are called visual/s.
they help convey the message
more clearly and more appealing.
Visual media pertains to images,
pictures and graphic organizers.
Readers or listeners need to acquire visual literacy (the
ability to interpret images). We acquire visual literacy if
we are endowed with-
• interpreting skills
• can understand and appreciate the meaning of visual
messages
• communicate more effectively with the use of visual
designs
• use visual thinking to conceptualize problem solutions
at hand.
Visuals may be categorized as the
following:
• realistic visuals
• mnemonic visuals
• analogical visuals
• organizational visuals
• transformational visuals
• interpretive visuals
• decorative visuals.
3. Graphics, Tables, and Charts.
These are visual representation of numerical data, may be
used to illustrate relationships among units and trends of
data. They may be used to present statistical results used to
compare and contrast, present an eye-view of the whole
information. Graphs may be of different types as Bar Graph,
Pictograph, Pie graph, Line graph, posters, cartoons, maps,
photography. Tables and charts may also be used for graphic
communication.
4. Projected Visuals.
The most recent projected visual nowadays is with
the use Liquid Crystal Display(LCD) Projector.

5. Smart Television (Smart TVs).


The most recent device used inside the classroom
for audio-lingual presentation.
6 Digital Audio.
Digital audio files come in different formats as wave(.wav) files and MPEG Layer
3(mp3) and many more. Audio files can be accessed through streaming audio,
podcasting, Internet radio, and digital players.
Streaming audio. is a method where audio signals are delivered to your
computer via the Internet. Like the most popular websites with audio streaming
Spotify.
Podcast. audio files are recorded in MP3 format and are distributed in the
Internet. TEDtalks, YouTube are among the many websites that provide
podcasts.
Internet Radio. Wi-Fi radios provide access to thousands of internet radio
stations.
Digital Players. These are mobile digital media players; portable electronic
gadgets used to store and play audio files.
7. Video
Video is a series of images that when combined will form moving
visual images. There are many popular video websites as
Youtube, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok.

8. Video Conferencing
This can be used to give lectures, seminars to students who
cannot be present during the lecture. Skype is a program or an
application used to communicate with other people using
webcams.
9. E-mail
Electronic mail may be used to send message
through a mailing website such as Yahoo or Gmail
etc.
10. Multi-modal Texts.
Multi-modal as defined in the Australian curriculum is the strategic
use of two of more communication modes to make meaning as image.
gesture, music, spoken language, and written language.

"A multimodal text can be paper - such as books, comics, and posters.
A multimodal text can be digital- from slide presentations, e-books,
blogs, e-posters, web pages, and social media, through to animation,
film and video games. A multimodal text can be live- a performance or
an event."

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