Creating it is often a great challenge for teachers, who must transform the educational material. Immediacy is an element demanded by the new generations and multimedia content is the favorite format of new students.
What should the content of your teaching program be like?
The first thing you need to know is that your educational content must be multimedia in order to penetrate the minds of your students. However, multimedia resources are very diverse, so you must choose the one that best suits the information you want to convey.
Students using multimedia material
Types of multimedia resources
To make the content of your teaching program effective, you must use interactive materials that integrate visual, auditory or audiovisual elements, i.e. multimedia.
These are the most commonly used types of multimedia resources:
Infographics.
Text
Images
Videos
Animations
Conceptual diagrams or maps
Audios
Graphics
To enrich the content of your teaching program, it is best to combine these resources and create materials that are as complete as possible. For this purpose, there are SCORM packages that incorporate different multimedia resources that you can implement in your virtual classroom.
Aspects to keep in mind
Not all material that you can find on the Internet can be used. You must take into account that there are a series of rules that you must follow in order not to act outside the scope of the law.
Intellectual Property Law: This is the law that supports content creators. Thanks to it, the material that you create and share will be backed up and no one will be able to steal it from you. In the same way, you will not be able to use the material of other authors.
Depending on the different types of copyright, you may encounter:
Works protected by the Intellectual Property Law: these are all creations expressed in any medium or support, regardless of their registration in the Intellectual Property Law. Their use requires express authorization from the owner of the work.
Public domain works: these are works that do not have copyright and, therefore, can be used by anyone.
Creative Commons (CC) licensed works: Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright. They allow authors to determine how they want to share their works.
Where to find multimedia resources?
To create materials that adapt to your teaching program, there are lawyers email list platforms that offer freely licensed resources whose content is truthful and appropriate:
Image banks
Video banks
OCW Repositories
This is a repository of teaching materials and freely licensed learning objects.
OER Repositories
This open educational resource repository contains free digital content for your teaching and research programming. It has four characteristics known as the 4Rs:
Remix: refers to the fact that you can mix the content of different educational resources to obtain the material that best suits your needs.
Redistribute: Indicates that you may make as many copies as necessary to share the material.
Review (Review): takes into account the fact that all material available in the repository is susceptible to modification, improvement and/or adaptation.
Reuse: Remember that all materials can be reused for different contexts.
Teacher creating educational programming content
Where to find content for your teaching program?
Procomún : this educational resources network has teaching materials for pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational training and high school.
Eduteka : on this website you will find an extensive repertoire of educational material perfectly catalogued by academic area, subject, thematic axis, general topic and specific topic. The paradise for obtaining content for your teaching program.
Professional Training Simulators: through this website, the Ministry of Education, through the National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF) makes available to all users interactive and multimedia digital educational resources for different academic areas.
Interactive simulators for teaching science and mathematics: it offers a compendium of interactive simulators for learning the areas of physics, biology, chemistry, earth sciences and mathematics. The material available on the platform can be downloaded or used online.
Agrega : this is an online platform, implemented in the Spanish educational administrations, which includes thousands of teaching resources that can be downloaded in different formats.
Educarex (Educational Portal of Extremadura): has downloadable educational resources organized by levels.
Educarm (Educational Portal of the Region of Murcia): in addition to the repository of material for teachers, it has a specific area for parents with relevant information for them on travel and canteens, among other things.
CATEDU (Aragonese Center for Technologies for Education): offers a collection of educational material organized by stages and subjects.
Educa Madrid: this website presents educational resources organized by educational levels, a secure file storage service in the cloud, a compilation of online courses, another of web pages and virtual communities for centers, teachers and students, a messaging service, an app for the management and consultation of school library funds and also has a virtual classroom for educational centers in the Community of Madrid.
Wikididactic : space for cooperation between teachers in which educational material is shared.
Red Educativa Digital Descartes: non-governmental association that seeks methodological renewal by betting on interactive digital materials and offers them on its website.
CITA Digital School Library (International Center for Advanced Technologies, of the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation): provides its users with different educational materials arranged by areas, stages and educational levels.
repository of educational programming content