DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER- BASED MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE FOR TEACHING IGBO CULTURAL FESTIVAL (NEW YAM FESTIVAL) TO STUDENTS OF ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION TECHNICAL AROCHUKWU.

Abstract

Students of Igbo language in Nigerian Colleges of education require instructional materials that put together various cultural festivals in forms that can be easily studied and interesting as well. Hence, the authors developed a multimedia instructional package to achieve such objectives. In specific, the developed instructional multimedia package contains new yam cultural festival of Arochukwu kingdom. Prior to the development of the package, the authors reviewed of some materials on new yam festival as well as interviewing some prominent persons in Arochukwu. The reviewed materials as well as the interviews form part of the multimedia instructional package. The instructional package has examination section where students’ knowledge on new yam festival (Ikeji) will be tested. Student can view his/her examination result immediately after finishing the examination. Likewise, the lecturer can view students’ results after the examination session. In addition, the instructional package contains brief description of Arochukwu new yam festival in textual, video and pictorial formats. The instructional package was developed using java programming language and developed under java netbeans integrated development environment (8.2). MySQL database was incorporated into the developed instructional package for storage of various data, such as students’ results and users’ login details. The database and its tables were created using MYSQL workbench (8.0). The developed multimedia instructional package was tested by students and they expressed their satisfaction with the performance of the developed instructional package. Hence,the students recommended the used of the developed multimedia package for the teaching of  Arochukwu  new yam festival in the College.