HYPERTEXT, HYPERMEDIA, MULTIMEDIA
By: Richar Chasi
The term hyper means extension to other dimensions.
These are links among textual items, often indicated on a computer or website.
It is a key word set in underlined blue type, that, when highlighted by a pointer
device and clicked, take the reader to the referent.
These links are usually defined in terms of their activity and are referred to as
hotlinks or hyperlinks or, increasingly commonly, simply links.
Links encourage branching off
According to Bolter “hypertext” is an electronic text which the elements of
meaning, of structure, and of visual display are fundamentally unstable.
• Hypertext are no linear arrangements of textual material.
• Allows a users to follow their own path in a non sequential manner to access information.
• The development of hypertext has been associated most closely with a constructivist model
of learning and aspects of schema theory.
• The behaviorist model might use hypertext's special features only to link text with
explanations, tests and answers, the constructivist model might consider the same features
and use them to encourage learners to evaluate the structure and the sequence of their own
learning.
• For example, list of verbs verbs
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• It integrates text, images, video, graphics, sounds with web page.
• It gathers hypertext and multimedia
• Murray, 1995 classify in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(ICALL) in that it offers often dubiously labelled 'intelligent' feedback
features that customize responses to learner input.
• Example: Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use
the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of
networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government
networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and
optical networking technologies.
• Multimedia tends to feature several media types such as: text, images,
video, sounds.
• Text are used to send information to the user.
• Thompson (1992) hypermedia would be a software reference tool such as
Microsoft's discontinued encyclopedia Encarta.
• It is easy access to various links within a program; selected references are
only a keystroke away.
• Multimedia links are selected and based on the perceptions of tl1e program
designer and may not mirror the needs of the learner.
Thompson (1992) definition, would be a program that uses several media, but onIy
along a fixed linear path.
Example:
Verb to be
Present simple exercises
1.- Mary …… at home
Are
Am
is
- Are
- am
- Is