1. COM 205 MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS St. Joseph’s College Fall 2004

2. Chapter 1 Introduction to Multimedia

3. What is Multimedia? Multimedia is any combination of –text, –graphic art, –sound, –animation, –video, delivered by computer or electronic means

4. What is Multimedia? Text Graphics Sound Animation Video

5. Multimedia takes may forms Greeting Cards Conferencing Movies Photo albums Image catalogs

6. Creating and Delivering Multimedia Graphic User Interface - GUI

7. Producing a Multimedia Project Requires a) creative skill b) technology tools c) organizational and business talent d) knowledge of ownership and copyright rules

8. Where Do You Begin? Study each element of Multimedia Read trade periodicals Visit web sites

9. 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

10. Types of Multimedia Interactive multimedia Hyperactive multimedia Linear multimedia

11. Interactive Multimedia Allows the user to control –what and –when the elements are delivered

12. Hypermedia Interactive Multimedia which provides a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate

13. 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)

14. Multimedia Project Linear - users watch from beginning to end Non-linear and interactive - users are given navigational control and can wonder through the content

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Why Multimedia? Multimedia enhances learning, memory and retention –audio stimulation - 20% retention rate –audio/visual - up to 30% retention rate –interactive multimedia - up to 60% retention rate

19. Delivering and Using Multimedia Online uses include: –Books and Magazines –Movies –News and Weather –Education –Maps –Entertainment

20. Appropriate uses Business Schools Homes Public Places –1995 Al Gore - White House Challenge to connect every classroom, clinic, hospital to Information Superhighway by 2000

21. Delivering and Using Multimedia Virtual Reality

22. 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

23. 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 the “SAGE on the STAGE to the GUIDE at the SIDE” of each student.

24. Project Visit the International Space Station (ISS) Virtual Tour at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html Choose the Interactives and ISS Explorer 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?

25. Alternate Project Virtual tour of London and St. Michael’s Abbey Go to main website: http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.html then Virtual Reality tours St. Michael’s Abbey What happens when you click on a “red spot”? Virtual Tour of London What is the London Eye? Why is the Tower of London famous?