Technology, Realia or Technorea

Yuri Lolita
(Universitas Negeri Surabaya)
ABSTRACT
Teaching materias should be relevant and purposeful so that they aid learning
and promote authentic use of language. Thus factors such as learning stylles and
attitude should be taken into consideration in developing materials. According to
Shin (2007) young learners tend to have short attentions spans and are
physically more active, so teachers should use more realias, visuals and colorfull
materials to grab their attention, how ever technology is also very important to
meet the needs of todays 21st century digital learner (Blain,2012). So, it is
important that both technology and relias (technorea) are infused in language
teaching to make the learning process effective and succesful in language
teaching to make the learning process effectife and succesful in this showcase
the presenters will show how technology and realias (technorea) are
incorporated in lessons in a fun an meaningful way.

Research on PowerPoint:
From Basic Features to Multimedia

PowerPoint has become the predominant technology platform for teaching in

academia. However, the research on PowerPoint is not widely known and, as a
consequence, is not reflected in classroom practices. The instructional
applications of PowerPoint are virtually untapped. This review synthesizes the
research evidence on what are known to be effective practices in terms of (1) the
basic features and uses of PowerPoint with which educators are familiar, and
(2) the use of rich media,including movement, music, still images, and videos.
Particular emphasis is given to the latter category involving multimediabecause
of its potential to increase comprehension,understanding, memory, and deep
learning and the substantial research base on multimedia slide design. A
PowerPoint stateof-the-art top-10 list summarizes possible evidence-based
practices from all of the sources examined. Finally, the types of research that
still need to be conducted within the context of PowerPoint are identified.

Keywords: PowerPoint, PowerPoint research, PowerPoint animation, evidencebased practice, music and learning, music and the brain, videos and learning,

videos and the brain,multimedia learning, multimedia in PowerPoint, rich media

inthe classroom