It seems to be a challenge to incorporate technology (especially multimedia) into the preschool classroom; however, it is not impossible. I repeat, it can be done! Here are a few ways that you can get young students to use multimedia for their projects. Allow students to summarize (tell you about) their favorite story book from class on video. Play the videos back for the class to listen to (and laugh with! They love to watch themselves!). Create a "Plants at Our School" documentary. Use photos you take with a digital camera to create a ten-slide presentation that has a title slide followed by a slide with a photo of one object, then a slide with a photo of two objects, and so on. Use this when teaching counting. Let students make their own presentations with your help.
There are many applications available for creating a multimedia presentation such as the ones listed above. These include iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Prezi.
There is no doubt that you will encounter some problems while undergoing these projects. Here are a few ways to place limits on how your students use multimedia in order to avoid some of the foreseen problems. I will use the ten-slide counting presentation as an example. While creating this presentation, students may become distracted by all of the different options that are available to them as far as colors and shapes and fonts. As a preschool teacher, focus on applying the pictures and, if time permits, at the end of the project give students choices as to what color background/font/shapes, etc. they would like to add to enhance the slideshow.
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