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What is... Multimedia?
Multimedia is the integration of media such as text, graphics, animation, sound, and video to communicate or express an idea or concept. Traditionally, slide/tape and multi-image presentations, interactive video, and video productions have used multimedia representations. Today, software and computers can be added to this list to produce digital forms of multimedia. Educators can take advantage of digital multimedia in several ways. They can integrate commercially available educational software packages or multimedia presentations they have created into lessons or they can have students develop their own multimedia representations. Hypertext is a nonsequential, nonlinear method for displaying nodes or chunks of information that are linked or networked together. The user has control over the order in which she/he learns the information that is being presented. The user simply clicks on a highlighted word or phrase, or a button, and they are moved to another part of the text. Hypermedia is the result of the combination of multimedia and hypertext. |
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