I took this course because it is in my study plan and I would like to explore the topic of multimedia that has become more popular in education. My goal is to know more about how multimedia can be used in learning, as well as how to make it more beneficial to our learning.
A video game is interactive media where users can interact with the content of the media.
A video is a multimedia when images, animations and audios for the viewers.
Interactive multimedia can be an online PowerPoint presentation class or meeting where the teacher or presenter would constantly ask listeners to interact so that the presenter could teach or share based on listeners’ reaction and understanding.
I don’t think there are gray areas for the categories but I do find that some categories include others or they collapse. I find the interactive multimedia, which can both belong to interactive media and multimedia, a very interesting category that can be engaging and fun. It combines more than one type of media and is more likely to keep me focused. The interactive features also make me engaged because it feels like I’m playing a game back and forth with the content rather than being talked to with the contents.
5 Responses to “Week 1 Post: Interactive and Multimedia Learning”
Good start to the blog Qiaoyang! Your interactive media example is right on. The interactive multimedia is a little trickier. If the media in this case is a Powerpoint presentation, what input from the user is changing the output? Is the teacher just an intermediary or actually part of the media?
My thoughts were that the Powerpoint presentation involves teaching and asking questions so that the audience get to ask what they don’t understand and the presenter would answer and extend the content a little based on the questions asked. And yes the instructor is part of the media for the interactive multimedia.
Great examples for media and interactive media. I’m curious about the interactive multimedia example though. Do you think of the instructor (who is responding to input from the audience) as part of the media?
After reading your article, I got new thoughts from using online real-time presentations for student-teacher interaction.
In some foreign language learning sites, the developer pre-sets the text, audio, and video presentation to the user, while providing multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank or voice recognition questions for the user to interact with. These sites are very similar to online real-time presentations in how they use interactive multimedia for education. What do you think about their similarities?
Hi，Qiaoyang，
I really like your simplified blog. For your powerpoint presentation course, I don’t quite understand how the presenter is teaching based on the audience’s reaction. My personal feeling is that if a presenter wants to teach the best way to respond to an audience, he needs a different version of powerpoint to teach that. I think presenters need to spend more time preparing for the same lesson.