WHAT IS A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM?

➔ Text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation are all examples of different types
of media that may be used to portray information supplied by computers. a system
capable of displaying several media in an integrated fashion. Capturing, creating,
storing, retrieving, and processing multimedia information are only some of the functions
of a multimedia system.

CHARACTERISTICS:
● Why? Since it is capable of processing multimedia data and applications,
multimedia is a good way of communicating because it can be easy to
communicate and understand. Multimedia also has animation, music, video, and
more of this. This can easier to attract people to listen to and to make everything
they wanted to explore.
● Using this kind of system, you can get personalized information services through
interactive access and individual information selection, expand the bandwidth of
your senses, make information presentation more effective and flexible, and unify
the ways that information is spread across the world.
● It enables those who are socially isolated or somehow set apart from their
immediate physical community to connect with like-minded or like-situated
people.
● Level 1: Information delivery is just interactivity. Users choose the presentation's
start time, sequence, pace, and format. Level 2: Users can edit or add to the
information, and this is recorded. Level 3: The computer really processes the
user's input and produces a legitimate result.

Now, all in all, we can see or evidently a multimedia system is much more flexible than any other
system. Why it is because it has everything we need and of course, we can explore on our own.
It has multiple advantages since it allows the users to be more creative and innovative where
technology is in demand nowadays. This only means that we are updated on all the trends and
we are encouraged to practice and be part of modern society.

BLOGGING
● Typically a blog is administered through an intuitive web interface that not only allows a
user to control the access to content created and comments received but also allows
‘generic’ designs to be personalized by changing layouts, colors, etc.
WHY USE BLOGS
● The chronological format of the blog encourages users to regularly update them and as
such provides a great mechanism for delivering the latest news in a subject area or a
group project.
● Blogs are also widely used as spaces for reflective learning where students and/or staff
can gather thoughts, collect information and even organize that information into digital
portfolios.
KEY BENEFITS

● Blogging's informal setting can help students explore ideas before producing more
formal work.
● Student groups can help shy students engage and challenge more confident students.

KEY ISSUES

● Monitoring and commenting on large classes takes time.

● Allowing public comments can result in unwanted Spam.
● No one commenting on your posts can discourage you from blogging regularly.

● 100% Online Education - Fully online degrees are earned from the comfort of your own
home with no required visits to your college or university campus.
● Hybrid Education - Hybrid education allows students to pursue a combination of online
and on-campus courses.
● Online Courses - While online courses may be part of a degree program, they can also
be taken on their own in order to master a certain subject or learn a specific skill.
● MOOCs - MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are usually delivered in lecture
form to online "classrooms" with as many as 10,000 people.

SYNCHRONOUS
● Teacher and student have some direct simultaneous contact.
Asynchronous
● Instructor and learner do not meet in time or space.