I.T Based Projects: The Guided Hypermedia Projects

I.T Based Projects: 
The Guided Hypermedia Projects
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What is Hypermedia?
Hypermedia combines the concepts of hypertext and multimedia to allow rich interaction between the user and the material. Hypertext itself is basically the same as regular text except that it contains connections within the text to other documents (Hughes, 1994). 


Students as Audience of Hypermedia
In the role of audience to hypermedia, students interact with hypermedia environments developed by others. Examples of this type of interaction would include reading articles in online encyclopedias, observing a PowerPoint presentation (with links and other multimedia elements) developed by a teacher, playing interactive adventure games, or looking at various interactive websites on the Internet.


There are two different ways of  approaches in the production of self-made multimedia project:

• As an instructive tool, such as in the production by students of a power-point presentation of the selected topic.
• As a communication tool, such as when students do a multimedia presentation (with text, graphs, audio, video, interviews and other more to stimulate the intellectual capacity of the student.)

HyperStudio (by Roger Wagner Productions) is a kind of multimedia software. Handling the production of a similar computer software material is said to be too sophisticated or that technical for those average students. But, it is allowed for the students to produce poster design, computer tools and the required development of appropriate creative skills, as well.



References:
Educational Technology 2(Book)
http://edtechstudentsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/guided-hypermedia-projects.html
http://www.squidoo.com/hypermedia