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MULTIMEDIA

The document outlines different types of factual texts, including recounts, procedures, explanations, and descriptions, each serving a specific purpose. It also explains multimedia, which combines various media formats like text, graphics, audio, and video for effective communication, detailing its advantages and disadvantages. Key benefits include user-friendliness and interactivity, while drawbacks include information overload and potential high costs.

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MULTIMEDIA

The document outlines different types of factual texts, including recounts, procedures, explanations, and descriptions, each serving a specific purpose. It also explains multimedia, which combines various media formats like text, graphics, audio, and video for effective communication, detailing its advantages and disadvantages. Key benefits include user-friendliness and interactivity, while drawbacks include information overload and potential high costs.

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Different types of text: Examples of Factual Texts

1. Recount - journal, diary, newspaper article, historical recount, letter, log, timeline Purpose: to retell a series of
events
2. Procedure - instruction, recipe, directions Purpose: to instruct someone on how to do something
3. Explanation - scientific writing, spoken presentation Purpose: to explain how or why something occurs
4. Description - observation, speech, analysis Purpose: to describe the characteristics or features of a thing or a
phenomenon
Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition
to traditional media. It is a sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media formats (people, text, visual, motion,
audio, and manipulative) in a given presentation or self-study. The word multimedia comes from two Latin roots,
multi and media. Multi means several or many and media means in the middle. This multimedia definition tells us
that materials on the Internet or in your school and business presentations involve several forms of communication
to connect, that is, to be in the middle of the sender and receiver. Also, multimedia can be recorded for played-back
on computers, laptops, smartphones, and other electronic devices.

Basic Types of Multimedia


1. Text Materials - important components used in written explanation to deliver information in many
multimedia applications. They are characters used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs. Example:
Hypertext
2. Graphics/Photographs - digital representations of non-text information such as a drawing, chart, or
photograph. They gives ideas in the images with the help of memory and one of the oldest forms of media.
Example: JPEG
3. Sound/Audio - any spoken explanation that stimulates imagination and can be added and combined with all
types of media. Example: MP4
4. Video Presentations - clips or full videos that show information. They are a collection of moving pictures
combined with audio files. Example: MP4, MOV, AVI files
5. Forms of Animation - Flipping through a series of still images. It is a series of graphics that create an illusion
of motion to display pieces of information with moving or still images and easily transferable. Example:
Graphic Image File (GIF)
Advantages of Using Multimedia
1. User-friendly. It doesn’t take much energy out of the user in the sense that you can sit and watch the
presentation, read the text, and hear the audio.
2. Multisensorial. It uses a lot of the user’s senses while making use of multimedia. For example, hearing, seeing and
talking.
3. Integrated and Interactive. All the different mediums are integrated through the digitization process. Interactivity
is heightened by the possibility of easy feedback.
4. Flexible. Being digital, this media can easily be changed to fit different situations and audiences.
5. Used for a wide variety of audiences. It can be used by various audiences ranging from one person to a whole
group.
Disadvantages of Using Multimedia
1. Information overload. Because it is so easy to use, it can contain too much information at once.
2. It takes time to compile. Even though it is flexible, it takes time to put the original draft together.
3. It can be expensive. Multimedia makes use of a wide range of resources, which can cost you a large amount of
money.
4. Too much makes it impractical. Large files like video and audio need large storage. Adding too much can mean
that you have to use a computer with huge storage capacity to store the files.

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