Knowledge Enhancement and Mitigation Strategy of Volcano Eruption Disaster Based using Macromedia Flash Media

Abstract

Merapi is the most active mountain in the world that is essential to develop a learning medium of volcanic eruption disaster mitigation to clarify the material presented. This research is a research and development. It aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Macromedia flash based learning media. The development phase used the ADDIE model. The findings indicate that Macromedia flash based learning media are suitable to be used as learning media. This can be seen from: first, the material expert’s validation, which obtained an average of 83.4% and the media expert’s validation, which obtained 82.42% with a very appropiate category. Second, the teacher's response to the learning, which obtained a very appropiate with the percentage of the material indicator of 85%, the interest of 86.6%, and the suitability of the media with the material of 85%; and third, the students’ responses indicate that the media indicators obtained 87.5% with very appropiate categories, while media indicators and readability obtained 70% with appropiate categories. Macromedia flash-based learning media effectively increase the knowledge of the volcanic eruption disaster with an increase in learning outcomes in the experimental class of 6.25 while the increase in the control class is 2.7.