What do you call the computer information that can be represented through audio, video and animation integrated with any traditional media?

Time for today's Latin lesson! The word multimedia comes from two Latin roots, multi and media: multi-, meaning several or many, and media-, meaning in the middle. This multimedia definition tells us that materials on the internet, or in your business presentations, involve several forms of communication to connect (that is, to be in the middle of) the sender and receiver. As any multimedia developer knows, a multimedia system consists of at least two, and perhaps all, of the following types of communication.

1. Text Materials

Text takes us back to how the internet started, as a means of sending written messages back and forth between researchers. Actually, it takes us back quite a bit further, as pretty much every office memo ever written has mostly consisted of text with perhaps a smidgen of other media types thrown in. Text is still a primary way to transmit information, although nowadays, it is also used to augment other forms of communication, such as a text description of a photograph.

2. Photographs and Other Still Images

Illustrations are perhaps the oldest form of media, harking back at least as far as the prehistoric paintings on cave walls found in various locations around the world. Gutenberg's printing press in the 1400's enabled mass distribution of multimedia works containing both text and images. The growth of electronic communications has meant that older text-only forms of communication could be enhanced with photographs and images as well. Small images such as thumbnails or icons are often used as a visual "entry point" to larger images or more detailed information.

Text and images sometimes combine in a single form, as many software programs make it easy to create text art, a form of lettering that combines a strong visual element as well.

3. Audio Files

Your website or presentation can add sound, from a musical background to a spoken explanation, by including audio files. Even digital cameras, a quintessentially image-based technology, have been engineered these days to record sound as well. Many sound files are compressed, which reduces the file size without greatly sacrificing sound quality. Compressed files require less storage space and stream faster when sent over the internet or transmitted to local systems.

4. Video Presentations

Video presents moving pictures and typically combines images and sound for a compelling multimedia experience. Of course, videos can include text as well, which often appears as captioning for spoken words or as text in an image, as in the case of a slide presentation. Video files are some of the most memory-intensive multimedia applications, but clever streaming methods makes their use practical in everyday use.

5. GIFs and Other Forms of Animation

Animated files occupy a middle ground between still images and video. GIFs, which is an abbreviation for graphic image files, in particular, are small files that present a single image or rapidly display a sequence of a few images to give the appearance of motion.

Tip

Common file types include:

• Text Only: TXT
  
• Text with other elements: DOC, DOCX, PDF
  
• Images: JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP
  
• Audio: MP3, WAV, WMA
  
• Video: AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP4
  
• Animation: GIF, FLV
  

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Content that uses a blend of diverse content forms contrasting with media that use only basic computer displays. It includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactivity content forms. Learn more in: Media Literacy Organizations

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A combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactivity 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. Learn more in: E-Textbooks as a Classroom Tool

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Multimedia or multiple media is one combination of codes and modifications. The term multimedia consists of two Synthetic: the prefix too much and the root means / means “Intermediate, Central”. Today the term multimedia is often used as property for many systems, components, products and principles. When we talk about multimedia in learning we mean multiple representations that exploit codes (images, videos, graphics, text, etc.) and the modalities (visual, auditory, tactile), not necessarily all together but at least two. When we allow the user to control when and how these data will be presented to him then we have interactive multimedia multimedia). Learn more in: Organizational, Administrative Support, Networking, and Computer Architecture for Deploying Web-Based Educational Audiovisual Services

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Is media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g., text, audio, graphics, animation, and interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user) audience. Learn more in: Interactive Multimedia

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Refers to content that uses a combination of different content forms. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactive content forms. Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, dynamic, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but it can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term “rich media” is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia scales up the amount of media content in multimedia application. In the field of cultural heritage, multimedia displays complex transformation that architecture has undergone during his life. Learn more in: San Pietro di Deca in Torrenova: Integrated Survey Techniques for the Morphological Transformation Analysis

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“The entirely digital delivery of content presented by using an integrated combination of audio, video, images (two-dimensional, three-dimensional) and text along with the capacity to support user interaction (Torrisi-Steele, 2004, p. 24)”. Learn more in: Blended Learning Primer

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Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted, and processed digitally. Learn more in: ICT and Education: A Review

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