HYPERMEDIA

What is Hypermedia?
 
      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.

•        Games
•       BloodTyping
•       Illuminations (Algebra/People Patterns)
•       Illumination Codes

•       Videos
•       Misunderstood Minds

•        WebQuests   

Hypermedia/Multimedia
 
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

 

 

 Impact of Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems

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

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

 

 Design a Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems

•       Instructional design

•       Screen design

•       Interaction feedback

•        Navigation

•       Learner control

•        Color

•        Graphics

•        Animation

•       Audio

•       Video

  Storage Media

•       DVDs

•       CD- ROOMS 

 

 Commercial Multimedia/Hypermedia Software Packages

•        Instructional Software 

•     Interactive Storybooks

•        Reference Materials

•        Encyclopedias

•       Almanacs 

 

  Three Kinds of Multimedia/Hypermedia authoring Resources

•       Presentation Software

•       Video production and editing systems

•       Hypermedia authoring software

 

 

Hypermedia Authoring Resources

•        Audio resources

1.        CD audio

             2..Videodiscs

             3.Recorded sounds

            4.Prerecorded sounds

•       Video resources

1.      Digitized videos

            2. Videodiscs

            3.Prerecorded videos on CD- ROM 's

 

 

•       Photographs

•         Scanned photos

•        Captured from video sources

•         Digital cameras

•        Imported from CD- ROM's

•         Graphic images

•        Created by authors

•        Imported from clip art collection

•       Scanned images

•      Animation

•       Imported from CD-ROM's

•      Created using animation tools

•      Text

•        Writing as project develops

• Importing from word processing files