Multimedia Systems

Multimedia

The Ins and Outs

Parts of Multimedia

PowerPoint slides uses a variety of font sizes, styles & colour

Multimedia applications can use clip art and photographs

Clip Art

Photograph

Photograph

Clip Art

Word uses animation to represent the Office Assistant, whichassists one in developing documents.

Many colleges & universities offer some of their classes in a distance learning format

Instructional DVD-ROM features videos of famous golf players

Links are used to navigate through various CD’s

Business Users use multimedia with their presentations forcustomers and employees.

Computer based training such as the Learn By Series is designedso students can choose learning activities that complement theirlearning styles. 5 distinctive Learn By activities and a simulated environment where students use their skills guarantee effective learning experience

One can buy simulation packages such as Flight Simulator

This Learn 2 Web site offers steps for a variety of activities rangingfrom cooking to first aid to personal care to making crafts

An educational multimedia application designed to teach younglearners basic reading skills.

Multimedia encyclopaedias include graphics, audio, video andweb links.

Video

The Mayo Clinic Family Health CD-ROM provides a narratorto guide you through the steps in addressing family health issues

Using this tree selector, you can choose trees best suited for anyclimate and soil.

Many newspapers & magazines have online editions, such as theSydney Morning Herald and The Age

Many edutainment applications use multimedia elements to entertainchildren while they learn.

Virtual Glider by Intel takes the rider on a hang-gliding trip throughthe Grand Canyon

In the dental surgery patientswear virtual reality headsetsto relax them during their procedure.

One can view and rotate the interior of a featured car, such as the Saab9 - 5

Many camera shops nowhave kiosks that allow one to copy, enlarge,reduce or crop photographs

MSNBC is one of the many sites on the web that hasmultimedia features

Most multimedia personal computers are equipped with devicessuch as a microphone, a CD-ROM &/or DVD-ROM drive, speakers, web cam and a high-resolution monitor

With a web cam,home users can seeeach other as theycommunicate onthe web.

They can do projectstogether over the Internet using NetMeeting software

High DefinitionTelevision is a newertechnology

A digital light processingprojector (DLP), such as this one from Proxima, isideal for the mobile userbecause it is lightweightand portable

It can be connected to alaptop or vcr. Itcomes with speakers but generally need to be connected to external speakers

A colour scanner convertsimages into digitisedformat for use with multi-media applications.

It can be used for optical character recognition as well.

The basic software of a scanner allows the scanned imagesto be saved in many different formats eg. JPEG, GIF

An easy and effective wayto obtain digitised colourphotographs is by using adigital camera. Once thephotographs are input intoa computer, one can use them in a multimediapresentation

PhotoCDs are ‘writeOnce’ compact disksthat can store about100 photographicimages

USB Thumb Drives are becoming very popular and most likely will replace floppy drives and the Zip Drivein the near future.Particularly good for graphics, databases and other large files.

ToolBook is amultimediaauthoringsoftware. Thisversion allowsthe fast creationof quiz type questions.

A sample ToolBook screen

Director: another multi-media authoringsoftware

A sample Director screen

Frame Grabber

Cathode Ray Tube

Scanning - s/w & h/w