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Literary Textrs in Multimedia Presentation

LITERARY TEXTS IN MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION Abstract Vladimira Velički Milan Matijević University of Zagreb - Teacher Academy Zagreb, Savska c. 77 Reading, the approach to reading as well as different theories concerning learning and reading have engaged the interest of experts from different scientific fields. However, factors which are not in the domain of school and school-learning or of what we offer under control, play an ever increasingly important role in the education of our children. Doubtless one of these factors are the media. Apart from television, computers enter young people’s lives and offer them various games, mostly with the purpose to entertain, although, at the same time, there is an abundance of educational programs. Computers are becoming a new teaching medium. Educational programs are usually divided according to subjects or educational areas: foreign language, geography, history, mathematics, etc. It is our concern here to study multimedia adaptation of texts belonging to children’s literature in order to develop a new concept of “multimedia didactics” and to examine a new way of reading which appears when such programs are used. Interaction and dynamism, as already stated, are the basic components of multimedia presentations of texts from the area of children’s literature. Children find such adaptations attractive not only or to a lesser extent because of the story they offer, but more because they give a chance to try out the computer and the elements of game. Nevertheless, exactly this attraction should be exploited by offering the children quality educational software. In this paper authors have attempted to give a theoretical basis for the production of such software. A multimedia adaptation of the original text must take into consideration the original. Certain differences are inevitable but it should not become sheer entertainment. In addition, a literary work requires identification with the lives of the characters, which can be yet another way of achieving excitement. Biografije autora Milan Matijević is a professor at the Teacher Education Academy in Zagreb. He teaches Educational technology and Didactics. In 1996 he started a project “Hypermedia Educational Technology and Media Didactic” and is involved on several other projects of educational technology. Milan Matijević has published numerous papers and books on educational technology and distance education. Vladimira Velički is a teacher of Croatian language and literature at the Teacher Education Academy in Zagreb. Since 1996 she participated in the project “Hypermedia Educational Technology and Media Didactics”. In her work she is researching the ways of creative reading and writing. She is also co- author and author of various school books and workbooks for croatian language.

multimedia; literary text; education

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