MULTIMEDIA

 

ICT AS PLATFORM FOR CHANGE

 Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media 

(and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

- Fred Ritchin

Image by Marinelle Godes

    People all around the world are now using several digital technologies and rising applications. This pandemic allows us to use internet platforms to interact, share, and do anything we want, but with proper online etiquette. Students are among those who make use of modern digital tools. They can express themselves through listening to music, playing games, watching movies online, purchasing online, reading various websites, and, most importantly, academic words. It is simple to use, with numerous menus and settings to effectively make the most of modern technologies.    

What is Multimedia?

https://youtu.be/4z51S3qSYEM 

Transcript: Multimedia is the use of a computer to present and combine text, graphics, audio, and video with links and tools that let the user navigate, interact, create, and communicate. It is a combination of any means or types of media may it be hardware or software to be used for the communication of information. It allows users to interact with the digital information as this is an interactive media that provides a lot of ways to deliver information to the user in an advanced manner. In other words, multimedia is a computerized method of presenting information that combines textual data, audio, visuals (video), graphics, and animations. 

Multimedia includes texts, graphics, videos, audio, and animation. The process of using these is by inserting images or videos into your blogs. Say, for example, you are tasked to report a topic in your class and your teacher says "be creative in reporting". The first thing that will come to your mind is pictures, graphics, videos, audio, colors, and a lot more. For you to meet the teacher's standards of reporting you need to use multimedia. Adding animations to your report,  adding videos that relate to your topic for your classmates to understand the lesson further, and adding pictures for visualization increases the drive of your classmates to listen to you thus enhancing their learning capabilities that are why multimedia is very effective to use in communication of information as it gives a clearer understanding of the information.

How do I use multimedia?

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    Multimedia includes text, graphics, video, audio, and animations. We can use this by the process of inserting it to our blogs just like what you use above, there are images and videos inserted. It helps so that your blog will be more creative and informative with the use of images and videos. It helps to better understand the topic you posted on the blog.

PROCEDURES FOR INSERTING IMAGES AND VIDEOS

INSERTING IMAGES

STEP 1: Log in to your Google Account

STEP 2: Next, to add an image to your blog click the Ellipsis or the three-dot menu on the left-hand panel, there you'll see different icons and features.

STEP 3: Look for the image feature on the right side then click it, through the options, select "upload from computer" and a tab will appear, on the tab click "choose file" then select an image you want to put on your blog. 

STEP 4: After that the image will immediately appear on the document area, click the image to change the size, caption, or alignment of the image.

INSERTING VIDEOS

STEP 1: Log in and select New Post

STEP 2: Select Insert a video (it looks like the clapperboard that movie directors use).

STEP 3: Select the appropriate choice to add your video:

• Upload to choose a video on your computer.
• From YouTube paste the URL of a YouTube video.
• My YouTube videos to choose from a list of the videos you previously uploaded to YouTube.

STEP 4: Upload the video and choose Select to display the video on the web page.

Significance of Multimedia

Retrieved from: https://www.easypresswire.com/blog/why-multimedia-is-important-in-any-pr-campaign/

    Multimedia plays a big part in our life and become increasingly important as the society adopts it nowadays. It is the combination of media that can be use to make content and a way to communicate with others easily. It can be used to create information and a way to easily interact with others; for having the significance of is it allows us to do things in our profession and make our lives and doing the things in our work straightforward. Multimedia benefits people to different perspective; from student up to adults, that these technology applies and necessary to different works that all of us do and is required for a variety of tasks that we all perform. It encourage people to work, express the knowledge in multiple ways and communicate to simple attract them and accept the message that has been convey. The world spins off in the technology these days and using multimedia is important for us to endeavor what we need to accomplish.

Contributors for this blog: 

Benedicto, Gino R.

Celzo, Carlmalon P.

Esquillo, Irish B.

Godes, Marinelle Anne C.

Pacamalan, Jomari B.

Roma, Luis Mario D.

Turaray, Alvian R.

Vales, Marielle A.