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What is Multimedia?

Multimedia is any combination of

text,

graphic art,

sound,

animation,

video,

delivered by computer or electronic means

What is Multimedia?

Multimedia takes may forms

Greeting Cards

Conferencing

Movies

Photo albums

Image catalogs

Creating and Delivering Multimedia

Producing a Multimedia Project

Requires

a) creative skill

b) technology tools

c) organizational and business talent

d) knowledge of ownership and

copyright rules

Where Do You Begin?

Study each element of Multimedia

Read trade periodicals

Visit web sites

Where Do You Begin?

Learn tools to create or edit that element

Learn to use texts and fonts effectively

Learn how to make and edit colorful images

Learn how to animate images into movies

Learn how to record and edit sound

Types of Multimedia

Interactive multimedia

Hyperactive multimedia

Linear multimedia

Interactive Multimedia

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Allows the user to control

what and

when the elements are delivered

Hypermedia

Interactive Multimedia which

provides a structure of linked elements through which the user

can navigate

Multimedia Project

Software vehicle, messages and content presented on a computer or TV

screen

Multimedia title - if sold or shipped to users with or without instructions

Web page if on the www and composed of HTML or DHTML ( Dynamic

Hypertext Markup Language)Multimedia Project

Linear - users watch from beginning to end

Non-linear and interactive - users are given navigational control and can

wonder through the content

Authoring Tools

Multimedia elements are sewn together using tools like Authorware

to provide facilities for creating and editing text and images

have extensions to drive videodisc players and other peripherals

playback the sound and movie elements created with other tools

Requirements

Multimedia requires:

large amounts of digital memory and network bandwidth;

GUI (gooey) - a graphical user interface

CD-Rom or DVD technology for storage

In the future these may be replaced by connected fiber, and radio/cellular

technology

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

Delivering and Using Multimedia

Multimedia demands bandwidth

CD-ROMs hold 650-700 MB (80 minutes of full screen video)

DVD-ROMs hold 4.7-18 GB

Multimedia can be delivered on line

Why Multimedia?

Multimedia enhances learning, memory and retention

audio stimulation - 20% retention rate

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audio/visual - up to 30% retention rate

interactive multimedia - up to 60% retention rate

Delivering and Using Multimedia

Online uses include:

Books and Magazines

Movies

News and Weather

Education

Maps

Entertainment

Appropriate uses

Business

Schools

Homes

Public Places

1995 Al Gore - White House Challenge to connect every classroom, clinic,

hospital to Information Superhighway by 2000

Delivering and Using Multimedia

Virtual Reality

New Technologies

VR- Virtual Reality

Goggles, helmets, gloves, etc. place users inside a life-like experience

View changes as user moves forward, left/right, etc.

Composed of thousands of geometric to be realistic

Will require new standards (VRML) for transmitting virtual worlds on the

web

Results

Multimedia will cause radical changes in teaching and learning

Teachers will become mentors and guides along a learning path that is

student centered (See pp. 12-13)

Education will shift from theSAGE on the STAGE to the

GUIDE at the SIDE of each student.

Project

Visit the International Space Station (ISS)

Virtual Tour at

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html

Choose the Interactives and ISS Explorer

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then try to answer these questions:

What is the Soyuz capsule used for?

In node 2, what does the PMA-2 interface serve as a docking station to?

The Japanese Experiment Module is named Kibo. What does kibo mean in

English?

Alternate Project

Virtual tour of London and

St. Michaels Abbey

Go to main website:

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.html

then Virtual Reality tours

St. Michaels Abbey

What happens when you click on a red spot?

Virtual Tour of LondonWhat is the London Eye?

Why is the Tower of London famous?

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