Module 15 Flashcards
allows users to interact with text, graphics, sound, and video; each of which can be accessed from within any of the others. It engages the user and interacts with the user.
Interactive Media
a software system that links topics on the screen to related information and graphics, which are typically accessed by a point-and click method.
Hypertext
A location connected to the internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.
Website
abbreviated as WWW or known simply as the web. It is an information space where documents and other web sources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the internet.
World Wide Web
It allows interactivity between the technology (the computer) and the user (human); the computer responds to or communicates with the user as a response to user’s actions.
Interactive Media
Examples of different platforms/dimensions of interactive media
- mobile apps
- 3D TV
- video games
- RPGs
- MMORPGs
- interactive websites
- virtual reality and immersive environments
- powerpoint
- interactive smart boards
- computer software
is a software developed specifically for use on small, wireless computing devices such as smartphones and tablets, rather than desktop or laptop computers.
Mobile Apps
a television display technology that enables a three-dimensional effect, so that viewers perceive that an image has depth as well as height and width, similar to objects in the real world.
3D TV
a game played electronically; manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or any other display screen. It could be educational such as Bookworm, or Multiplayer that allows two or more players to play with one another or together.
Video Games
a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. The players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development.
Role-playing Games (RPGs)
any story-driven online video game in which a player, taking on the persona of a character in a virtual world, interacts with many other players.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)
these are websites that let users take on a pool, survey, exams, exercises or even allow online social interaction such as social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
Interactive Websites
the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
Virtual Reality and Immersive Environments
may contain links, hypertexts, images, sound, graphics, or other multimedia elements.
PowerPoint presentations
allows the teacher and the students to have physical interaction with the subject matter using this format.
Interactive smart board
allows users to interact with text, graphics, sound, and video, each of which can be accessed from within any of the others.
Computer software
is the communication process that takes place between humans and the different dimensions of interactive media.
Interactivity
5 most common types of interactivity
- click
- hotspot
- slideshow
- timeline
- hover