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• Research


  The scientific innovation of phenomena which includes collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of facts that lines an individual's speculation with reality
• Inquiry


  • Seeking for truth, information, or knowledge
  • Problem-solving technique
• Recount


  • journal
  • diary
  • newspaper article
  • historical recount
  • letter
  • log
  • timeline
• r

  recount - to retell a series of events
• Procedure


  • instruction
  • recipe
  • directions
• Purpose of procedure


  to instruct someone on how to do something
• Explanation


  • scientific writing
  • spoken presentation
• Purpose of explanation


  to explain how or why something occurs
• Description


  • observation
  • speech
  • analysis
• Purpose of description


  to describe the characteristics or features of a thing or a phenomenon
• Multimedia


  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.
• Origin of the word 'multimedia'


  From the Latin roots 'multi' meaning several or many, and 'media' meaning in the middle. This tells us that multimedia involves several forms of communication to connect the sender and receiver.
• Basic types of multimedia


  • Text
  • Graphics/Photographs
  • Sound/Audio
  • Video
  • Animation
• Text


  Important components used in written explanation to deliver information in many multimedia applications. They are characters used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs.
• Text example


  • Hypertext
• Graphics/Photographs


  Digital representations of non-text information such as a drawing, chart, or photograph. They give ideas in the images with the help of memory and one of the oldest forms of media.
• Graphics/Photographs example

  • JPEG
• Sound/Audio


  Any spoken explanation that stimulates imagination and can be added and combined with all types of media.
• Sound/Audio example

  • MP4
• Video


  Presentations clips or full videos that show information. They are a collection of moving pictures combined with audio files.
• Video examples

  • MP4, MOV, AVI files
• 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.
• Animation example


  • Graphic Image File (GIF)
• Advantages of using multimedia


  • User-friendly
  • Multisensorial
  • Integrated and Interactive
  • Flexible
  • Used for a wide variety of audiences
• Disadvantages of using multimedia


  • Information overload
  • It takes time to compile
  • It can be expensive
  • Too much makes it impractical
• qualitative (object) - it aims to create new theory based on the gathered data
• qualitative (object) - a fact finding research used to gain understanding of individuals differences in terms of feelings and experiences
• qualitative (data description) - natural setting, making stories out of a certain phenomenon, uses pictures
• qualitative sample (size) - small
• qualitative data gathering - unstructured
• qualitative data gathering - uses interviews, participant observation, group discussions
• qualitative data gathering - uses open minded questions
• qualitative data gathering - freedom survey, unlimited set of options
• quantitative (object) - the purpose is to test a hypothesis or theory
• quantitative (object) - measures problem using rating scale and other research parameters of group similarities
• quantitative data description - measurement setting
• quantitative data description - performs measures out of a certain phenomenon
• quantitative - large
• quantitative - standardized/structured
• quantitative - uses close-ended questions