Instructional Media Website Connects Multimedia to Science Curricula

By Thomas W. Speitel and Thanhtruc T. Nguyen

Teachers need easy access in the classroom to media that enhance and directly link to the curricula they are teaching. The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa offers science teachers and students a new free website, the School Web of Instructional Media (SWIM). SWIM is currently a multimedia enhancement of the high school marine science program The Fluid Earth/The Living Ocean. Soon SWIM will connect to the middle school Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching curriculum.

Contents of the website include video, photographs, sound, and interactive computer programs that can be accessed in the classroom. The media come from CRDG servers, the World Wide Web, and even CDs such as VideoDiscovery’s The Water Planet.

To bring outstanding media into your classroom, go to www.hawaii.edu/swim and get your password now!

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