Wednesday 10 August 2011

Week 6 (Creative effective multimedia production)

Hello!We meet again..=) New week, new assignments..ok, let us start without wasting any time, shall we?

Assignment 7a
Assignment 7a required us to create a presentation kit, based on our mini journal that we had done earlier in week 4. However, as easy as it might sound, the presentation kit should be done using the Open Office Software. Throughout my year of study, i've never use open office software in any of my assignments. Luckily our respective course coordinator, Dr Fatimah had included some reference links for our future consultation. Firstly, i had to learn how to create a master slide. A slide master is the top slide in the hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation, including the background, colour, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes and positioning (office.microsift.com). The reason of creating the slide master is so that we don't have to type for the same information in a new slides. Sounds pretty handy for me. Guess what, this is my first time of knowing the real usage of slide master. Forgive for my ignorance..=) Anyhow, after i have explore all the settings in the open office, i found out that it is not that different from the usual and common microsoft power point. Really, it's not that much different. Doing it was a success. You can check my yahoo group to see my impress presentation kit.

Assignment 7b
Assignment 7b on the other hand required us to develop a multimedia courseware, by using power point. However, despite of producing a normal plain power point, we were told to include all the multimedia elements such as video, a layered graphic and an audio. Video were edited using Window Movie Maker which i can say, quite familiar to me. The new software that i've used for this power point is the Audacity software, which is used in editing audio purpose. It's not that complicated for a newbie in editing like me. Furthermore, Dr Fatimah had included the instruction for us to use the Audacity which i can say very kind of her..=D Nevertheless, once again i had succesfully completed the assignment for this week. Wait till i publish the courseware to see the ultimate power point presentation ever! Sorry, for the hyperbole though..=D I think that's all for today, we'll meet again for the next assignment, have a nice day!

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