Affective communication is communicating with someone (or something) either with or about affect. The way of Affecting others is in a sense of emotions, as well as conveying the message rather than emphasizing on the messages alone.
There are ways to overcome the lack of affective communication when using multimedia in teaching process. For school students, plain conventional method would lead students' attention astray for this generation are used into having high-tech materials in their daily lives.
1. Computer as tool – Provide softwares that students can use. however, the teachers must be the one who are in control of the softwares.
2. Computer as mediator – to use pics and etc to show how are the procedures and guide.
3. Computer as teacher – use games, models to help learners learn hands on.
4. Strategies of learning – comerate all learning strategies, using multimedia as another method to facilitate that.
5. Approach used – aware of the approach used to prevent clashing of purpose. Eg, use multimedia as model, as topic holder for discussion, writing and brainstorming.
