Tuesday, 9 September 2008

What is Multimedia?

In everyday life, multimedia is everything you hear or see, eg text in books, sound in music, and graphics in pictures.

In computing, multimedia is the presentation of information by a computer system using text, sound and graphics.

Who Uses Multimedia?

Multimedia can be used in a variety of ways, and a multimedia presentation can be put together in a variety of different formats.

Education

In education, multimedia can be used as a source of information. Students can search encyclopaedias such as Encarta, which provide facts on a variety of different topics using multimedia presentations.

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