INTRODUCTION

The appeal of visual media continues to make film, video and television as educational tools with high potential impact. They are now more accesssible and less cumbersome to use. Let us take

advantage of them in the classroom.

The film, the video and the tv are indeed very powerful. Dale (1969) says, they can:

Transmit a wide range of audio – visual materials, including still pictures, film, objects, specimens and drama,

Bring models of excellence to the viewer. – we can see and hear the excellent scientist like John Glenn, the excellent speaker and master teachers who lecture and demonstrate a teaching method for professional development of teachers.

Bring the world of reality to the home and to the classroom through a “live” broadcast or as mediated through film or videotape. – Not all of us have the opportunity to see life underneath the sea. But with tv, we are able to see life at the bottom of the sea right there in our sea or bedroom through Discovery Channel, for example.

Make us see and hear for our selves world events as they happen. With a sense of helplessness, we witnessed the fire that engulfed homes in San Diego, California last year as it happened through tv. When the strong earthquake shook Baguio, Agoo, Dagupan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines on July 16, 1990, the aftermath of the earthquake was shown live in tv.

Be the most believable news source

Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational levels. Literate and illiterate, young and old, - all benefit from the common experiences that the tv transmits.

Become a great equalizer of educational opportunity because programs can be presented over national and regional networks.

Provide us with sounds and sights not easily available even to the viewer of a real event through long shots, close ups, zoom shots, magnification and split screen made possible by the tv camera – Afraid of the mammoth crowd every time Baguio celebrates the Panagbenga(Flower Festival), I prefer to stay home and watch it in tv. With the versatile camera, I can have more close up view than those watching it from Session Road.

Can give opportunity to teachers to view themselves while they teach for purposes of self-improvement –Teachers can’t view themselves while they teach but with videocam and tv they can view themselves while they teach after.

Can be both instructive and enjoyable. – With sights and sounds and motion, tv is much enjoyabe.