Designing and Developing a Multimedia to Instruct the Alphabet signs to First-grade Elementary Students (Turkish Language)

The present study aimed to design and develop a multimedia to instruct the alphabetic signs to first-grade elementary students talking Turkish. The research method was qualitative (multi-method) using an exploratory-developmental approach. The population includes all students (girls and boys) 6 to 7 years old from the first-grade elementary students in Hamedan and the participants were 12 students from Yekaleh village of Qahavand Shera region, selected with purposeful sampling method and categorized based on available criteria. Also, the educational multimedia specialists were selected with the same mechanism. The case study was done by strategies such as interviews, observations, and document-mining (reports about multimedia implementing in the field). The 4 -step method (description, analysis, inference, and explanation) was used to analyze the data. Findings include 3 main components (graphic-audio elements, multimedia teaching method and finally summarizing the learning) and there were 7 sub-components and 22 design strategies. Also, the instructional design process based on the design and development model of Ivers & Barron: decision-making (planning and setting goals, determining the skills of the advance, organizing, managing brainstorming and research activities), designing (content design, designing flowchart, page layout, storyboard, and developmental measurements), development(managing media production, facilitating multimedia activities and developmental assessment) and evaluating (measuring learners, validation and correcting). The results of the findings demonstrated the acceleration and facilitation of learning alphabetical signs.