Audio Visual Aids Used In Health Education

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Aids Used in Health Education

1. Audio aids 2. Visual aids 3. Combination of Audio-Visual aids

Audio Aids

Based on principles of sound, electricity and magnetism Megaphones Public addressing systems or microphones Gramophone records Tape recorders Radios Sound amplifiers

Visual Aids

Based on principles of projection Projected aids needs projection from a source on to a screen films or cinemas film strips slides overhead projectors epidiascopes transparencies bioscopes video cassettes silent films

Non-projected Aids do not require projection blackboard pictures cartoons photographs posters flashcards charts brochures models Other aids traditional media which makes use of light and sound stimuli Folk dances and Folk songs Puppet shows Dramas

Audio Visual Aids:

1.Funnel graphs

Flannelgraph (sometimes called a flannel board) is a storytelling system that uses a board covered with flannel fabric, usually resting on an easel. It is very similar to Fuzzy Felt, although its primary use is as a storytelling medium, rather than as a toy.

A funnelgraph used as a teaching aid

2.Flash Cards

A flashcard or flash card is a set of cards bearing information, as words or numbers, on either or both sides, used in classroom drills or in private study. One writes a question on a card and an answer overleaf. Flashcards can bear vocabulary, historical dates, formulas or any subject matter that can be learned via a question and answer format.

3. Transparency

A transparency, also known in industrial settings as a "viewfoil" or "foil", is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material, typically cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn. These are then placed on an overhead projector for display to an audience.

Overhead projector in operation, with a transparency being flashed

3.Filmstrip

The filmstrip was a common form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools , now overtaken by newer and increasingly lower-cost full motion videocassettes and DVDs.

4.Magazines

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three.

5.Films

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry.

a scene from the movie V for Vendetta

6.TV programmes

A television program (usually televisio n programme outside also called television show), is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a onetime production or part of a periodically recurring series. A single program in a series is called an episode.

a still from the simpsons

Health education for the general public

Mass communication literally means communication that is given to a community where the people gathered together does not belong to one particular group. Advantages large no. of people can be reached people of all socio-economic status irrespective of their caste, creed and religion Medias televisions, radios, posters, news papers, etc

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