Multimedia: A Tool for Developing the Authoring Skills of Intermediate Teachers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Living in the 21st century, teachers are expected to be more technology-oriented in the teaching and learning process inside the classroom. Using different forms of multimedia will enhance their authoring skills to be more adaptable in the globalization happened in the environment. Increasing their awareness and skills in using multimedia will also increase the skills and capabilities of students inside the classroom. Hence, this study determined the level of the multimedia authoring skills of the intermediate teachers at Tanauan North Central School during the school year 2018-2019.

METHODS

A self-constructed questionnaire was used as the primary tool for gathering the pertinent data for the study which is to know the level of multimedia authoring skills of the intermediate teachers wherein each is represented by five items. The instrument goes through content validation to ensure its appropriateness to the main objective of the study and clarity of the item statements for the target respondents. The study used descriptive research and weighted mean as its statistical tool.

RESULTS

Based on data gathered,it was found that the respondents are competent and well-educated in teaching media literacy to pupils especially how media can be presented in the class. They also practiced using music and arts as tools in teaching their respective subjects in their class which respondents are competent too. Moreover, the intermediate teachers revealed that they are competent in the designing principles of the respondents creating pleasing multimedia presentations in the classroom. As well, they showed competent in creativity and novel thinking skills in presenting and partaking information from multimedia especially in deciding how the information will be presented to their pupils the lesson (text, pictures, movies, audio, etc.). Lastly, the respondents revealed that they were slightly competent in considering audiences especially in publishing their research output that can be a source of information to other researchers.

DISCUSSIONS

In consonance with the above-cited results, a course of action made to further improve the multimedia authoring skills of the intermediate teachers in answering the needed skill of the 21st-century learners. They may conduct INSET training and encourage teachers to attend seminar-workshops to strengthen and to develop multimedia authoring skills which they can use in everyday teaching inside the classroom.