HYPERTEXTHYPERMEDIA

MULTIMEDIA

BY: GABRIELA FLORES

HYPERTEXT

• It’s a text within a network with interconnected writings usually found

in a computer or website.

• :

• The references that takes the reader to the other text are underlined blue

types which are called:

Hotlinks

Hyperlinks

Links

EXAMPLES

• In this document I will show a link that will take you to another text, we just

have to make a click and we will h

• ave others resources to find more information about this topic.

• Thisis an example of a link:

• http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~cs1msa/hyp0.html

HOW TO USE THEM TO IMPROVELANGUAGE SKILLS?

• As mentioned before, we just need to find a good multimedia program that

is dedicated to foster the main 4 English skills:

Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

These kind of programs have lots of links that takes to different activities whichhelps to improve language skills.

In these times it is easy to Access to lots of programs, we just have to browse o the net and choose what we need.

IT FOSTERS:

CONSTRUCTIVISM

NEGOCIATION OF MEANING

DECISION – MAKING

THE READER HAS ACCESS TO LOTS OF REFERENCES

HYPERMEDIA

• Similar to Hypertexts, uses links, but now they take the reader to media resources like:

• Sound

• Images

• Animation

• Videos.,etc.

LANGUAGE LEARNINGPROGRAMS

•ALLLP – Athena Language Learning Program

•Eliza,etc…

MULTIMEDIA

Not only uses one or two types of media, It uses severalmedia types like:

• Text

• Images

• Sound

• Video

• Animation

MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS EXAMPLES

•Spelling city: it’s a program that

helps to develop spelling activities, it

has lots links that take to intercartive

activities including game:

http://www.spellingcity.com/

• PROGRAM BACKPACK: This program is

design by LONGMAN Editorial, it has

6 different levels. It has interactive activities

like song, exercises to complete, stories,etc.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYPERTEXT-HYPERMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA

• The HYPERTEXT refers just to APPLICATIONS with links that takes to other textswith information.

• The HYPERMEDIA is a particular multimedia application that use just twotypes of media, while MULTIMEDIA applies several media types.

• In general, the term Multimedia subsumes the terms Hypertext and Hypermedia.