The multimedia programs listed here are just a few of the many available multimedia programs on the market that are designed to help you integrate video, audio, pictures, text and user interactivity into one project and share it with corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the web.
|Hyperstudio||Multimedia authoring tool||Commercial||Mac, PC|
|Aurthorware||Visual rich-media authoring tool||Commercial/Trial||Mac, PC|
|Adobe Premier||Capture & edit video for digital filmmaking||Commercial/Trial||PC|
|eZedia||Multimedia integration software||Commercial||Mac, PC|
The varied capabilities of multimedia software include, but are not limited to the following: incorporate all major media file formats by dragging and dropping into a multimedia project, edit all media formats, create buttons to navigate between frames, files, applications and websites, animate media-text, graphics and movies, rotate and flip images, create digital portfolios, presentations, slide shows and interactive CD-ROM projects, user interactivity, track data, record voice-overs and sound, use text-to-speech to speak text in a project, add text, calculate data and create templates. Deliver projects on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the web. These multimedia tools can be used across the curriculum and in varied grade levels.
- Applied Technology: The multimedia tool in applied technology helps students to create a digital portfolio, presentation, or CD-ROM that they can use in the real world to present themselves to possible employers or to industry and community members.
- Art: Multimedia software in the arts is a tool students can use to present their artwork, music and plays. Students can compile their work into a digital portfolio that can be shared through a CD/DVD, network or web.
- Foreign Language: Multimedia software in foreign language can help students improve their listening and reading skills as they hear text files converted into speech and read along. Their speaking and writing skills are developed as they make an audio track or movie of a role-play in the target language.
- Health and Physical Education: Multimedia software in health and physical education can help students express their learning of health and fitness issues through informative multimedia presentations advocating for healthy living.
- Language Arts: Multimedia software in language arts can help students to express themselves using visually rich media depicting their own stories and poetry. They can build critical thinking skills as they plan the overall project and decide on navigation of the frames.
- Mathematics: Multimedia software in math is a tool for students to demonstrate their understanding of abstract concepts by representing them in a multimedia presentation.
- Science: Multimedia software in science can help students to demonstrate their understanding of scientific topics and research through multimedia presentations. Their results of experiments can be shared on the web.
- Social Studies: Multimedia software in social studies can help students communicate their knowledge of a topic studied through visually rich media.
Sample Lesson Plans
There are presently no sample lesson plans on how the multimedia tool can be integrated in a content area and grade level. However, a long-term multimedia project can be weaved into a large unit over the course of a semester.