Hypermedia: means "linked media" or "interactive media" Today's hypermedia systems in which info is stored in various media are connected (internet)
The combination of media(video and audio with text) makes them multimedia; the ability to get from one media/info element to another makes them hypermedia.
5 hypermedia formats:
1. Commercial hypermedia software packages
2. Interactive presentation software
3. Audio/video production and editing systems
4. Hypermedia design and development programs
5. Virtual environments
Most important characteristic of hypermedia is its ability to encourage students to be proactive learners
Creation of hypermedia products requires that learners constantly make decisions and evaluate progress thus applying higher order thinking skills.
4 Kinds of multi/hypermedia design and development tools
1. Interactive presentation hypermedia
2. Audio/video production and editing systems
3. Hypermedia production software
4. Virtual environments
Hypermedia resources include:
1. audio resources
2. video resources
3. photographs
4. graphic images
see table 6.3 on page 180 for a summary of these resources
Free Sources for Hypermedia sites
Commercial products:
- Free sounds project www.freesound.org
- PBS kids interactive stories pbskids.org/lions/stories
- World Almanac for kids www.worldalmanacforkids.com
Interactive Presentation
- Ease http://live.gnome.org/Ease/0.1
- Google Docs presentations www.google.com/google-d-s/presentations
- impress www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html
Audio/Video
- microsoft movie maker www.microsoft.com
- microsoft photo story 3 www.microsoft.com
- open movie editor www.openmovieeditor.org
Hypermedia production
- Aha! hypermedia software http://aha.win.tue.nl
- Hyperbook online hypermedia editor http://hyperbook.sourceforge.net
- Cave Writing 3-D hypermedia authoring http://sourceforge.net/projects/cavewriting
Virtual Environments
- Blender 3-D content creation suite www.blender.org
- JAHSHAKA visual effects www.cinefx.org
See figure 6.3 page 186 for basic criteria for assessing student hypermedia products
