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TITLE OF PRODUCT:

Design and Development of a Bilingual Multimedia Educational Tool for Teaching Chemistry Concepts to Deaf Students in Greek Sign Language

NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Maria E. Panselina
(Special High School for the Hearing Impaired)
Michael P. Sigalas
(Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Chryssa Tzougraki
(Department of Chemistry, University of Athens)

TYPE OF PRODUCT:

Publication in the international Journal “Education and Information Technologies”

LANGUAGE/S OF PRODUCT:

English

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

This paper presents the design and development of a multimedia system which serves as a bilingual chemistry educational tool for deaf students. Details of the architecture of the tool, its functionality and formative evaluation results are also presented. Furthermore the process for deriving the chemistry terminology in Greek Sign Language used throughout the tool is briefly described.

COMMENTS ON THIS DOCUMENT:

The multimedia system including a working chemistry terminology in Greek Sign Language (GSL) is able to provide new educational opportunities to deaf students in order to increase their social independence and welfare.

NAME OF COMPILER:

Dr. Katerina Salta

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

T.E.I of Ionian Islands

ROLE:

Researcher