HYPERMEDIA

             WHAT IS HYPERMEDIA?

 

 

  

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•                                                                    All means of mass communication e.g. magazines, cinema, films, newspapers, radio, television, internet, computer and video games, billboards, books, CD’s, DVD’s, videocassettes, other publishing.

             

                       Multimedia

 

  Multimedia is media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user) audience.

¢Multimedia also refers to the use of (not limited to) electronic media to store and experience multimedia content.

 Hypermedia/Multimedia

                   

 

 

“WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HYPERMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA?”

Two commonly recognized distinctions:

Multimedia

—Less user interaction

—Sequential in terms of the flow of the information (used to be only one path through the information was provided) 

Hypermedia

—Information spaces are connected by non-linear links which a user may follow in any order. 

 

OTHER TERMS

Fine Art --------    Mixed Media 

Digital/Electronic Media

Interactive Media

¢New Media -------  electronic communication

¢Rich Media --------  Interactive Digital Media

¢CBT    ---------------- Computer Based Training

 

EXAMPLES

•         Games

Ø   Blood Typing

Ø   Illuminations (Algebra/People Patterns)
Ø   Illumination Codes

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•       Videos

Misunderstood Minds

•          Web Quests 

 

TYPES OF MULTIMEDIA AND

 HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS

Commercial multimedia/hypermedia software packages 

Commercial interactive video packages 

¢Authoring tools: presentation software 

¢Authoring tools: video production and editing systems 

¢Authoring tools: multimedia/hypermedia authoring systems

 

CURRENT AND FUTURE IMPACT OF MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA ON EDUCATION

•               Motivation 
  

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•      Flexibility

• ¢    Development of creative and critical thinking skills

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• ¢    Improved writing and process skills 

 

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IMPACT OF MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS 

•         Roblyer (1999)  provides students with multiple channels to process information.

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•         Swan and Meskill (1996) supports critical thinking skills in reading and language 

 
 
 

DESIGN A MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS

                    Screen design 

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Interaction feedback 

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  Instructional design

                                           

   

     Navigation 

 

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 Learner control

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Color

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   Graphics   

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Animation

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   Audio

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Video 

 STORAGE MEDIA

DVDs 

 

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 CD - ROMS 
 

 

COMMERCIAL MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SOFTWARE PACKAGES

 

Instructional Software

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Interactive Storybooks  

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Reference Materials

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Encyclopedias   

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Almanacs

 

THREE KINDS OF MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA AUTHORING RESOURCES

  

1. Presentation Software 
    
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   ¢ Video production and editing systems 
    
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   ¢Hypermedia authoring software
     

HYPERMEDIA AUTHORING RESOURCES

  

Audio resources 

ØCD audio 

ØVideodiscs 

ØRecorded sounds 

ØPrerecorded sounds 

¢Video resources 

ØDigitized videos

ØVideodiscs 

ØPrerecorded videos on CD-ROMs

Photographs 

ØScanned photos 

ØCaptured from video sources

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Digital cameras 

ØImported from CD-ROMs 

¢Graphic images

 Created by authors

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Imported from clip art collection

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Scanned images

 

¢Animation

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Imported from CD-ROMs

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Created using animation tools

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Text

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Writing as project develops

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Importing from word processing files