Multimedia concepts
In Education
Introduction
Aim is to explore and collect information.
Familiar with high tech equipments and their usage, multimedia plays an important role
Teachers are encouraged to present their lessons in a way that they can get students full attention
Students will be motivated when they use different audio and visual aids.
There are many industries that use multimedia
What is multimedia?
Multimedia refers to a computer assisted technology that
integrates various digital media
types such as text, graphics,
sound, video and animation
into an integrated multi-sensory interactive application or presentation to convey a message or information to an audience
(Lewis,1997).
Elements of multimedia
Elements of Multimedia
Text
Graphic
Video
Audio
Animation
Text
It involves font, size, colours.
Other media screen can be linked through the use of hypertext (Mishra, 2005).
Graphics
It provides the most creative learning sessions.It can be photographs, drawings, graphs from a spreadsheet, pictures from CD-ROM, or something pulled from the Internet(Li & Drew 2004).
Video
It brings a sense of realism to multimedia titles and is useful in engaging the user’s emotion (Li & Drew, 2004).
Sound
Multimedia application may require the use of speech, music, and sound effects
The sound used in multimedia is digital sound. The WAVE format is one of the most popular sound formats on the Internet. (lewis,1997)
Animation
A set of pictures simulating movement when played in series.
Animations are primarily used to demonstrate ideas or illustrating concepts. (Howell & Howell, 2002)
History of Multimedia
Explain through book and using black board and chalk.
From elementary to universities, multimedia technologies are introduced.
Multimedia classes lead to more interaction.
Encourage school teachers to present lessons that increase students interest and accustom to modern technology
Many schools have multimedia class rooms
Mediums of delivery And Its Advantages.
Multimedia lessons can be delivered in;
stand-alone CD-ROM
lessons on the World Wide Web (WWW) as a part of an e-Learning program.
1.Multimedia Presentation.
The easiest way is
to create a multimedia
presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Easy to edit the presentation
Can create interesting lessons
More effective if use overhead projector.
More attractive the hi-fi audio video equipment can use
Different learning style of students can be included.
2.Interactive Whiteboard(Smart boards).
Effective way to interact with digital content and multimedia
The requirements special needs students can be addressed.
It can help educators streamline their preparations
more efficient in information communication technology (ICT)
(STOA, 1997)
3.Internet
The World Wide Web offers abundant information which gives any required information
can create a blog or website for the students to refer back
can get is the large amount of information, which is fast and easy to access and is sufficiently general
Some of the places to find such useful data were online encyclopedias, search engines, discussion forums
(Muller, Eklund, & Sharma, 2006).
Advantages of Multimedia
It enhance student understanding and review processes.
It helps to grab the attention
it gives more opportunity to be creative
It gives the ability to accommodate different learning styles
Computer assisted instruction are more attentive
(Howell & Howell, 2002)
Disadvantages of Multimedia
A lot of time is required to create the multimedia lessons to update it.
Requires high-end computer systems and bandwidth is important
The prerequisites for using multimedia include to computer with related software
Design of multimedia lessons brings more cost for training
In case of technical problems, computer may end up with temporary breakups
Recommendation
Teachers should be in a position where they are familiar with multimedia technologies and are able to operate them efficientlySchool managements should facilitate teachers with the different multimedia technologiesTo ensure that good internet connections are available to apply multimedia applicationsMultimedia should be available to be used in different types of learning processes.
Conclusion
It is a powerful tool that really will help students to produce better results in the exam.
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