Examples of Multimedia

Before my 8-grade elementary education, multimedia and I are both strangers to each other. Forms of media I exposed were the traditional five: book, newspaper (both are text-based), radio, television and computer (note: not the internet, it had not prevailed in China at that time.

The first time “multimedia” bumped into my life was at my mathematics class. Our math teacher told us that he would gave us a multimedia math class. Interesting! The traditional projector was disappeared placing by the computer-connected projector. While he was elaborating the quadratic function through the graphic math software on his keyboard, we had explicit vision of a changing graph each time when he changed the coefficient. Instead of memorizing the formula, we had a better understanding of its attributes. Since human beings learn more efficient when most of the basic “five senses” are applied. I guess this is the primary reason for the birth of multimedia.

Quote from the wikipedia:" The information is presented in various formats, multimedia enhances us experience and makes it easier and faster to grasp information. Presenting information in various formats is nothing new, but multimedia generally implies presenting information in various digital formats. It is also used in visual arts to describe works created using more than one medium." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia)

Time flies and technology evolves. Now, most of us contact with multimedia the time when we get up until the time we go to sleep.

The second example I want to introduce is a web-based called fancy world (Chinese version). It contained 10 columns (art, build, dance, letter, visual, illustration, DC, dress, face, movie), within which there is a bbs discussion board. Users can share by uploading their ideas/thoughts, music, movie clips, ps pictures/ animations on this website. Furthermore, the bbs format can let people interact with each other by getting feedback immediately.

Inevitable, there are also tons of commercials on which they lived. Like the other websites, only after you are in their membership, you can have the rights listed above.