MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION

• FACTUAL TEXTS = recount, procedure, explanation, description
• multimedia = means that computer information can be presented through audio, video, and animation.
• multimedia = comes from two latin words = multi "multus" which means many or much, and media which is the plural form of medium
• recount = instruction, recipe, directions
• recount = purpose: to retell a series of events
• procedure = purpose: to instruct someone on how to do something
• explanation = scientific writing, spoken presentation
• explanation = purpose: to explain how or why something occurs
• description = observation, speech, analysis
• description = purpose: to describe the characteristics or features of a thing or a phenomenon
• basic types of multimedia = text materials, graphics\photographs, sound\audio, video presentation, forms of animation
• text materials = used in written explanation to deliver information, used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs
• text materials = hypertext
• graphics\photographs = digital representations of non-text information such as a drawing, chart, or photograph
• graphics\photograph = JPEG, PNG
• JPEG = pixelated pag i zoom
• PNG = standard for tarpoline making, high quality images
• sound\audio = MP3
• sound\audio = any spoken explanation that stimulates imagination and can be added and combined w all types of media
• video presentations = clips\videos that shows information, they are a collection of moving pictures combined w\ audio files
• video presentations = MP4, MOV, AVI files
• forms of animations = flipping through a series of still images, a series of graphics that create an illusion of motion to display pieces
• forms of animation = GIF
• GIF= Graphic Image File
• advantages of multimedia = user-friendly, multisensorial, integrated and interactive, flexible, used for a wide variety of audiences
• disadvantages = information overload, it takes time to compile, it can be expensive, too much makes it impractical