Session 58

Immersive multimedia
- begins with concept of Virtual Reality (VR)
Example:
1. Education - Medical students perform surgery and freely practice without any risk
2. Business - Virtual tours give a 360 view
3. Entertainment - Video games (Star wars, Ages of Empire II, etc)

Session 57

Implementation - convert design into a multimedia program
Testing - finding out product error to produce quality program (using a Checklist)
Evaluation - evaluated by users; focuses on overall presentation and effectiveness of multimedia

Session 56

We had a chat with Miss Kathy from Project ColMas through Skype. We will be collaborating with Russian students. Then we started our lesson as usual.

Development Team
1. Project Manager
2. Subject Matter
3. Graphic Artist
4. Audio/Video Design
5. Designer Instructional
6. Programmer

Phases:
1. Analysis
2. Design
3. Implementation
4. Testing
5. Evaluation
6. Publishing

Session 55

Web Editor
i) text based
ii) WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)

Multimedia Development
User Interface - provides interface / medium for humans to interact with the system
Principles:
1) Consistency                                      5) Search
2) Clarity                                              6) Personalisation
3) Context                                            7) Learnability
4) Navigation                                       8) Flexibility

Session 55

Authoring Tools
Definition: A program that helps to write multimedia application
Example: Toolbook Assistant, Authorware, COMEL, Sony Vegas

3 concept
1) Time frame concept
2) Icon concept
3) Card concept

We did some housekeeping. Mr.Z told us that we will be collaborating with African partners call Project KenyaMas. We have to introduce ourself in this project's Facebook page.

Session 53

Hardware
i) scanner                    iv) audio device
ii) video camera           v) video capture device
iii) camera

Software
i) text editor - edit text [Notepad, Microsoft Word, etc.]
ii) graphic editor - edit graphics [Paint, Adobe Photoshop, etc.]
iii) animation editor - produce 2D, 3D animation [Sound Recorder, Adobe Audition, etc]
iv) audio editor - edit music, voice recording [Adobe Premier, etc.]
v) video editor - edit video [ Macromedia Flash (2D) , Asymmetrix 3DFX (3D)]

Session 52

Multimedia
Multi: various
Media : hardware/software

5 main elements:-
i) text
ii) audio
iii) video
iv) graphics
v) animation

Multimedia application in society
1) Common source of reference
2) Used in education & training
3) Widely used in scientific research

Common medium of delivery
i) text based
ii) CD based

Session 51

First class for form 5. Mr.Z discussed about our collaboration especially Project ColMas. We got gifts from our Colombian partners and also got souvenirs from Mr.Z (THANK YOU ^^ )
And did some housekeeping.