COMMUNICATION AIDS AND STRATEGIES IN USING TOOLS OF TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNICATION AIDS
 Helps the communication to be more effective.
 It refers to tools or techniques like gestures, signages, books etc.
Multimedia Presentation
 An independent presentation that contains information, using slides, video, recordings and digital
representations.
 It consists of a set of media objects (such as images, text objects, video clips, and audio streams).
 Presented in accordance with:
o Various temporal constraints specifying when the object should be presented.
o Spatial constraints specifying where the object should be presented on a screen.
 A presentation file which is not limited to just text in terms of content.
 Example: It would have interactive video, sound, links, images, animated gifs and transitions in
it.
 It's combining multiple types of media in your presentation.
 You can use combinations of images, audio, and video to make your point.
Purpose of Multimedia Presentation
 To convey information more effectively.
 To share something with your audience.
Examples of Multimedia Presentation
 Pecha Kucha Presentation
 It is a storytelling format where a presenter shows 20 slides or images for 20 seconds of
commentary each.
 Blogging
 A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of
discrete, often informal diary-style text entries.
 Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post
appears first, at the top of the web page.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
 In preparing multimedia presentations for various communication purposes, it is important to consider
the following:
1. Visual
2. Can Use Variety of Modalities
1) Visual
 Multimedia presentations are visually oriented (displayed on a monitor or projected onto a screen)
 You may include pictures, videos, charts, graphs, etc.
2) Can Use Variety of Modalities
 They allow users to use different modalities.
 Examples of these modalities include:
o PowerPoint
o Canva
o Powtoon
o SlideShare
o Sway
o Prezi
 In which you can use video, animation, text, graphics, audio, photographs, etc.
STEPS IN MAKING EFFECTIVE MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
STEPS IN MAKING EFFECTIVE MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
1. Know the purpose of the presentation.
2. Know the audience.
3. Gather information.
4. Use a variety of resources.
5. Do not forget to cite sources.
6. Organize information.
7. Checking technical issues.
8. Be creative.
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