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Why Hypermedia?. Jana Craven. Hyper. Exists in space of more than 3 dimensions, you can leap from dimension to dimension. You can go from site to site or link to link to understand new information. Media. A means of expression such as text, image, photograph, drawing, audio, or picture.
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Why Hypermedia? Jana Craven
Hyper • Exists in space of more than 3 dimensions, you can leap from dimension to dimension. • You can go from site to site or link to link to understand new information.
Media • A means of expression such as text, image, photograph, drawing, audio, or picture. • It is the facts and ideas that can be put onto a website, or into a 3 dimensional world.
Hypermedia Examples • Breakthrough to Literacy Program • www.starfall.com • www.primarygames.com
Is hypermedia the best way to present information to people? • Until further research has been done this is completely up to your opinion.
Here are some research opinions • Hypermedia structure reflects the way people think cognitively • People can naturally understand information when it is obtainable in this format; however, this has never been proven . • Information can be given in a variety of learning styles.
In the schools • Computers and telecommunications are in full swing in schools all over the country. • Hypermedia can be a big impact in schools if teachers understand how and when to use hypermedia, can select the appropriate software, and are trained to use computers.
What teachers need • They need to be trained properly on all the equipment they are given. • They need to have a clear understanding of their own curriculum objectives. • Teachers also need to allow time to teach students how to use computers to the best benefits.
One Experiment in testing hypermedia • The students designed a website in this experiment. • The advantages were empowerment, motivation, and collaboration. • Some of the downfalls were time constraints, equipment limitations, lack of technical skills, and disagreement among students. • From a curriculum point of view the students used print based literacy, oral literacy, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills and interpreting and composing skills.
Overall Conclusions • Hypermedia can be beneficial to motivating the students to learn. • It can also help hit all the different learning styles of the students. • Students have the opportunity to control their own learning at their own pace. • Hypermedia can be good to use as part of the classroom instuction but not all of the instruction.
Resourses • Hypermedia Maze • http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/h/hypermedia.html • http://www-ec.nijit.edu/~bieber/phd-projects.html#proving • http://www.readingonline.org/articles/eagleton/text.html#conclusion • http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n2/mott.html • http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/HperLevels3/start.htm