Visual Material Development in the Education of Popular Concepts of Technology

In the study, popular technology concepts and materials were prepared to appeal to more audiences and to make them more perceptible in order to better understand the concepts through 72 films containing with virtual programs. The material is designed as concepts and concept clusters integrated with internet and DVD that will appeal to audiences visually, audibly, spontaneously and temporally. In the first phase of the study, a film containing 72 technology concepts related to the subject was identified from 1000 scientific film archives, both on the internet and in the Biology Education material development room. These concepts are classified in two groups as antique technology and modern technology. Furthermore, in the collection of data in the Ferit Melen Library of Yüzüncü Y？l University, 30 websites and 55 scientific articles were scanned and used for English translated articles, pictures and films about study topic. The films used for the study were cut with Ulead Media program in the virtual environment and converted from .mpg format to .flv file with Adobe Macromedia Flash Encoder. The files with the .flv extension are edited with Macromedia Flash 8 and put in a .swf file with different font colors and under the film frame to indicate the concept, the definition of the concept, the duration and what concepts are cut together. With the help of the Dreamweaver 8 Web Editor program, the web page of the concept was created and arranged in alphabetical order. A set of concepts describing the concepts of selected and selected films about popular technological concepts was made using the ConceptDraw Office PRO program. At the end of these stages, a visual, auditory and descriptive course material was prepared describing 849 popular technology concepts and concept clusters