MULTIMEDIA IN ISLAMIC EDUCATION.

PREPARED FOR: MR AHMAD FIRDAUS

PREPARED BY:FARAH AINAA BINTI ABDUL LATIF

0952112NOR NIRA ADIRA BINTI ISMAIL

0952094NUR SYAMILA BINTI SULAIMAN

0952141MARIAM BINTI MUSTAFA

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•Multimedia has the ability to capture the•attention of the learner because it addresses a variety of learning style.•In otherwords, multimedia is the combination of various digital media, into an integrated multi-sensory interactive.•application or presentation to convey information to an audience (Damodharan and Rengarajan, 2007; Butcher-Powell, 2005)

with the advance development of information and communication technology(ICT), Muslim educators need to equip themselves with ICT skills especially multimedia in order to cater the growth of students in all aspects; spiritual, intellectual,imaginative, physical, scientific, linguistic, both individuallyand collectively. If we fulfil this, only then we ableto produce balanced students spiritually, physically andmentally, because multimedia tools are part and parcel oftheir lives nowadays.For a Muslim who believes in Allah’s power, human’sachievement in ICT is a sign of knowledge achievementthat in fact need to be used in order to find a truth asAllah said in Surah Fussilat (41: 53):

Microsoft PowerPoint program had been used to modify the contents of the material. It helped researcher to represent them in a more meaningful way, using different media elements.

While transforming notes into PowerPoint slides,

researcher was not only transferring texts to the slides,

but also inserting some graphics related to the topics in

order to make students understand them better.

MAKING VIDEO CLIP AS STUDENTS’ PROJECT

Another advantage of creating multimedia projects inthe classroom setting is that when students createmultimedia projects, they tend to do this in a group

environment.By working in a group, the students would haveto learn to work cooperatively and collaboratively, usingtheir group skills and a variety of activities to accomplishthe projects overall objectives.

MIND MAPPING AS ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE

TEACHING TOOLSOther than Power Point slides, Free Mind software alsohad been used to create mind map notes. A mind map isthe easiest way to put information into our brain and totake information out of our brain. It is creative andeffective means of note-taking that literally “maps out our thoughts (Buzan, 2005). The mind map shows clearly

how the points are all associated and linked together(Khoo, 2007).

INTERNET AS A WONDERFUL TEACHING AID

In the borderless globalisation of information era, internet plays a vital role as knowledge disseminator. Nothing can stop us from getting what we want to know, we want to see and we want to listen because internet can be accessed by everybody. Whether it is harmful or useful, it depends on us how to decide.

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