Multimedia

Here I made a wordle that represents what people think of when they think of Multimedia. A few things that come to mind are slideshows (powerpoint), digital pictures, animation, videos, digital books, audio, and podcasts.
You may ask what is multimedia? Well multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way (Weopedia). Or another site says multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. This contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material (Wikipedia).
I think that multimedia is a combination of both these definitions and that together they make a full definition of what multimedia is and how we use it in our society and in classrooms.

SIDE NOTES:
In today's class I picked up a few useful hints that I would like to share with everyone;
1. When using your iphone to take videos turn your phone side ways because leaving it upright is not the correct way it was intended to take videos. (NEVER knew this, I was shocked!)
2. Today's movies are now being filmed using the "Jiggly Camera" meaning that the film looks more real and not being shot by producers.
3. Mike had a great quote up today and I took note of it, "Use your own, royalty free or creative commons materials or get permission!" In my classroom I need to encourage my students to be providing their own images and videos instead of taking them off the internet. This will be less work for them but having to site everything they use.