ROLE AND FUNCTIONOF AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA CENTER

ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONALMEDIA CENTER What is an Educational Media Center?A facility of the school system tasked to require, maintain, care and promote the full effective use of educational media. It facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional media. It organizes learning activities for students and teachers for them to upgrade and improve on their technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of motivating them to keep on developing on their communication, analytical, integrative, creative and collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning

Importance of an Educational Media Center provides teacher and students easy access for information search. The Educational Media Center functions as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the schools educational process. And it is designed for the housing and utilization of all educational media with in the school.

3Roles of EMCCenter for resourcesLaboratory for learningAgent of teachingService agencyCoordinating agencyRecreational reading center A stepping stone to the other recreational activities in school

4Functions of EMCCREATION/PRODUCTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALSSuit the special needs of teacher and student

Functions of EMCCONSULTANT SERVICE

The center media specialist act as resource persons for teacher in designing media for instruction Functions of EMCINFORMATION ON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The center provides information about innovations and recent development in specific subject areas and in the general field of educationFunctions of EMCMATERIALS FOR CLASS/INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING

The media center mat serve the purpose of centralizing education media equipment and materials for accessibility to potential users.

EMC for Persons with Special Needs

Provides educational and at the same time assistive resources for them to be able to keep with educational innovations and to assist them in their educational needs.PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)

Jigsaw Puzzles

Talking Calculator

Talking Dictionary

JAWS (Job Access with Speech) and the Braille

Educational Media CenterA functional EMC motivates and inspires. It has to be overemphasized that a school put the right persons in the EMC. All the technologies housed in the EMC will be laid to waste if the media specialist and the assistants are not very knowledgeable and are not committed to the operation and manipulation or educational media.

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