Chapter 6 - Teaching with Multimedia and Hypermedia

Multimedia vs. Hypermedia

Multimedia

• multiple ways or combinations of media

Hypermedia

• media that is linked - getting from one media to another
• impacts - increasing motivation, flexible for multiple intelligences, critical thinking skills, creates multidimensional thinking in story development
• interaction design - discipline for making things attractive to the learner through utility, usability and aesthetics

Commercial Hypermedia Software Packages

• Instructional Software - tutorials, drills, practices, simulations, problem solving
• Interactive books and ebooks
• Reference materials
• must be able to evaluate materials before purchasing based on support, design, content, navigation

Design and Development

• average person has ability and access to create multimedia and hypermedia
• hardware requirements - computer, digital camera, scanner, video digitizers, camcorder, microphones
• Sequence of Development should follow:

1. Review what's out there 2. Research topic 3. Create a storyboard 4. Develop frames 5. Add links and text 6. Test the product

Types of Multimedia Authoring Tools

1. Presentation Software - electronic slide shows (Power Point) used for getting student attention, assessments, tutorials, lecture support, student created presentations

2. Video Production and Editing - digital video moved to a computer and then inserted into presentations or the Internet

- used to demonstrate procedures, presentations, documenting school activities, real time communication

3. Hypermedia Development Software - Adobe Flash - students can design their own websites and games, presentations or interactive storybooks

4. Virtual Environment and Immersion Tools - Virtual Reality - avatars (graphic icons) to represent themselves in a virtual environment

- Geospatial technologies (Google Earth)

- QuickTime VR - connecting photos to make 3-d models

- used for virtual field trips, 3-d models

5. Web 2.0 Authoring Tools - free, easy to use tools to create social networks and online content sharing

- examples are blogs, wikis, podcasts, e-portfolios, social

networks, video and photo sharing