Here's a cool tool: eyePlorer. Does it count as multimedia?
Since I am obsessed with my iPhone, I invite you to visit the eyePlorer entry for iPhone.
How do you think this tool could be used to support learning? Would you embed it in a lesson? Or use it for individualized (personal) learning?
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sweet! i'll have to try it out to see if the visuals are good enough for me to consider adding it to a lesson. from the video, it looks like it could get cluttered.
ReplyDeleteis this an iphone app?
It has a lot of potential as a research and brainstorming tool for students. It may be a nice way to get students really interested in a topic before diving into the topic - a motivational tool in a sense. I typed in Richard Mayer and enjoyed reading through the notes. I am interested to hear if you all think this tool would be considered multimedia and how you would use it.
ReplyDeleteBasically, eyePlorer is simply a visual search engine. Visual search engines displays results in a visually oriented manner as opposed to a text oriented manner (e.g. Google).
ReplyDeleteI remember the advent of visual search engines back in 2000. They have been with us, as competitors to text-oriented search engines, for quite a number of years.
The vast majority of visual search engines I have come across over the past 10 years have failed to absorb any of the text oriented search engine market share and eventually gone belly up. I have watched this occur numerous times over the years.
In general, visual oriented search engines are significantly less user friendly than text search engines; although, I have seen improvements in recent years.
I agree with Jen that visual search engines are useful as brainstorming tools, but I haven't found them to be of any use outside of brainstorming. That said, they are generally so tedious to use that they were a de-motivating element for me when I used them.
Some visual search engines I would consider multimedia and others I would not. It depends on how the results are displayed.
-Travis