| Form
| Strengths
| Limitations
| Cautions
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| Visuals: General Information
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- Easy to handle - Portable
- Relatively inexpensive
- For groups or individuals
- Can stimulate visual learning methods
- Flexible teaching tool
- Can incorporate local art
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- Need oral explanation
- Require visual literacy
- Require training for quality production
- Difficult to obtain feedback except in live presentations
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- Size of visuals determines the maximum size of group
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| Visuals: Calendars and Flipcharts
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- No equipment needed
- Simple form for learning
- Keeps its sequence
- Popular - Easy to handle
- Inexpensive - Portable
- Suits home use
- Flipcharts useful for live storytelling
|
- Lower interest than other media
- Limited group viewing
- Less durable
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- Needs some training for good quality production
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| Visuals: Filmstrips
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- Easy to handle - Portable
- Keeps its sequence
- For groups or individuals
- Relatively inexpensive
- Facilitates live storytelling
|
- Can't change sequence
- Requires equipment
- Requires power
- Needs oral explanation
- Limited selection of commercial filmstrips
- Requires dark room
|
- Presenters need training in use and equipment care
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| Visuals: Posters
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- Popular - Portable
- Suitable for home use
- Easy to handle
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- Limited content
- Less durable
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- Useful as reminders of larger concepts
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| Visuals: Powerpoint
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- Easy to change language
- Adjustable sequence and format
- Can use local photos
- Can use local art
- Good for instruction
- Used to produce booklets and other printed materials
- Can incorporate sound and video effects
- Can be distributed via various media
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- Requires computer and specific software
- Requires projection equipment
- Requires power and maintenance
- Requires specialized training
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- Different platform standards and versions make it less interchangeable
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| Visuals: Slides
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- Real and lifelike
- Easily produced
- Flexible sequence
- Compact and portable
- Suitable for groups or individual viewing
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- Require commercial processing
- Require equipment
- Require power
- Can get out of sequence
- Need oral explanatiion
- Requires a darkened room
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- Requires slide film not always locally available
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