Multimedia application in teaching computer skills

One of the essential principles of PC working are the algorithms, which are also the basis of the main idea of a computer. Therefore those should be a part of every kind of PC working-learning – of course in a hidden, spontaneous way. And it is not important whether the students master the basics of algorithms through the work with a text editor, internet or multimedia. The Imagine Logo environment enables working with multimedia – with pictures, sounds, melodies and videos. The particular multimedia elements become objects which can be changed and set up, moved, run, stopped etc. using various methods. Within creative playing with them various multimedia applications can be created. We will try to demonstrate the way it is possible to use this playing and multimedia applications creation to introduce the basics of making project and algorithms creation or PC working to the students. We start with visual applications creation – setting up turtle parameters, animations and making the turtle move. Next we add a sound and we try to synchronize it with a picture. Then it’s the work with video, witch is integration into the general conception of a created application that follows. In the end we create a multimedia work on the basis of a nursery rhyme. Figure 1. Scheme of multimedia applications creation The created multimedia outputs can be afterwards used as means of the information and communication technologies integration into the process of non-information subjects’ education. We will show you a way of using the multimedia application in religion education and introduce the set of the biblical stories explaining the individual symbols we meet commonly in religion.