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Importance of Using Multimedia Presentation

A multimedia presentation combines text, images, audio and video to foster meaningful learning. There are two main types of multimedia presentations - interactive presentations that allow user navigation, and self-running presentations that automatically progress. Multimedia presentations offer advantages like improving learning effectiveness and reducing training costs compared to traditional lectures, but they can also be more expensive to create.

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Importance of Using Multimedia Presentation

A multimedia presentation combines text, images, audio and video to foster meaningful learning. There are two main types of multimedia presentations - interactive presentations that allow user navigation, and self-running presentations that automatically progress. Multimedia presentations offer advantages like improving learning effectiveness and reducing training costs compared to traditional lectures, but they can also be more expensive to create.

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Importance of Using Multimedia

Presentation
A multimedia presentation is a message that uses multimedia.

“ A multimedia instructional message is a presentation consisting of words


and pictures that is designed to foster meaningful learning. Thus, there are
two parts to the definition: (a) the presentation contains words and pictures,
and (b) the presentation is designed to foster meaningful learning” (Mayer
2003: 128)
Multimedia is more than one concurrent presentation medium (for example,
on CD-ROM or a Web site). Although still images are a different medium than
text, multimedia is typically used to mean the combination of text, sound,
and/or motion video. Some people might say that the addition of animated
images (for example, animated GIF on the Web) produces multimedia.

Multimedia tends to imply sophistication (and relatively more expense) in both


production and presentation than simple text-and-images. Multimedia
presentations are possible in many contexts, including the Web, CD-ROMs,
and live theater. A rule-of-thumb for the minimum development cost of a
packaged multimedia production with video for commercial presentation (as at
trade shows) is: $1,000 a minute of presentation time. Since any Web site can
be viewed as a multimedia presentation, however, any tool that helps develop
a site in multimedia form can be classed as multimedia software and the cost
can be less than for standard video productions.

Elements of a multimedia presentation


Before we can create a multimedia presentation we need to assemble the
elements of the presentation: text, images, audio and video. These may have
been prepared in other application packages, e.g. word processing, graphics,
etc.
Types of Multimedia Presentations

Interactive

These presentations have a navigation structure and the viewer can choose
the topics he/she wants to go through by clicking and choosing. They require
active interaction from the user. All the elements of Multimedia like sound or
Animation are effectively utilized to make the transfer of message clearer.
This type of presentation is suited to be handed over to a prospective
customer or to be distributed at a seminar or trade show. These can also be
used for in house, simulated, hands on training.

Self-running

A self running multimedia presentation is like a sales demo that can be shown
to a group of people. It does not require any navigation techniques and runs
continuously. Content-wise it is similar to the Interactive Presentation.

Web pages become multimedia resources and presentations when they are
designed with media other than static images and text such as audio, video,
animation and virtual reality.
Hypermedia:-
Hypermedia is a combination of the words hypertext and multimedia.
Hypertext is often referred to as the text on a web page which may include
graphics, sound animation and video as well. Navigation of hypertext is
designed to be nonlinear allowing the viewer to jump between segments as
they choose.
Slide Presentations:-
Teacher or student slide presentations can done using a variety of software
such as PowerPoint, AppleWorks Presentation, Corel Presentations 8.0 and
KidPix Slide Show. Although the capabilities of the programs vary, the
purpose of the slide show format is to display work such as student or teacher
research, ideas, information outlines or unit material. Test, chats, graphs,
audio, text animation, live hyperlinks and video clips can be added to many of
the presentation software programs to create multimedia presentations. Slide
show presentations can be viewed by a group at the computer or by a class
by connecting the computer to a digital projector.
Video:-
Video presentations can provide background information in a unit of study for
all learners as well as provide a resource for independent learning.
Documentary videos help students gain insight to historical events, other
cultures and human identities. Videos can also provide the window to the
remote – outer space, the inaccessible – the human heart, and the delicate –
a bee pollinating a flower.
Virtual Reality:-
Virtual reality is the technology that allows us to explore from a computer a 3
dimensional space. Using a digital camera and photo-stitch software, teachers
and students can create their own virtual reality tours for use in a variety of
curriculum areas. Once created, the virtual tours can be shared with other
classes and schools.

Advantages and disadvantages of Multimedia:


 Increases learning effectiveness.
 Is more appealing over traditional, lecture-based learning methods.
 Offers significant potential in improving personal communications, education
and training efforts.
 Reduces training costs.
 Is easy to use.
 Tailors information to the individual.
 Provides high-quality video images & audio.
 Offers system portability.
 Frees the teacher from routine tasks.
 Gathers information about the study results of the student.
Disadvantages of multimedia:
 Expensive
 Not always easy to configure
 Requires special hardware
 Not always compatible
Advantages of Multimedia
The use of multimedia offers many advantages:

1. Enhancement of Text Only Messages: Multimedia enhances text only


presentations by adding interesting sounds and compelling visuals.
2. Improves over Traditional Audio-Video Presentations: Audiences are more
attentive to multimedia messages than traditional presentations done with slides
or overhead transparencies.
3. Gains and Holds Attention: People are more interested in multimedia messages
which combine the elements of text, audio, graphics and video. Communication
research has shown that the combination of communication modes (aural and
visual) offers greater understanding and retention of information.
4. Good for “computer-phobics”: Those who are intimidated by computer
keyboards and complex instructions are more comfortable with pressing
buttons with a mouse or on a screen.
5. Multimedia is Entertaining as Well as Educational:

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